Prototype: German Federal Railroad (DB) diesel road engine, road number 210 003-0, with an added gas turbine and gas turbine exhaust hoods. The locomotive looks as it did around 1972. Use: Passenger and freight trains on the Allgäu Line.
The locomotive has a built-in digital decoder and sound generator for operation with DCC and Selectrix. The motor includes a flywheel. 4 axles powered. Traction tires. The headlights and marker lights change over with the direction of travel. Warm white LEDs are used for the lighting. The cabs have lighting that can be controlled digitally. The locomotive has a close coupler mechanism. It also has separately applied grab irons. The headlights and marker lights change over with the direction of travel in analog operation. Length over the buffers 102 mm / 4".
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Highlights
A car set to go with this locomotive is available under item number 15219.
Features
Thought was given at the DB about increasing performance for the class V 160 locomotives used for heavy passenger service on the still non-electrified line with its many curves from Munich to Lindau. The plan was to enable faster and more efficient operations on the route Munich - Zürich. The class V 160 was projected for medium heavy service and the German Federal Railroad decided to purchase eight (8) class 210 diesel locomotives with gas turbine as auxiliary drive.
