Prototype: Swiss Federal Railways (SBB) class Ae 8/14 “Landilok” electric locomotive, road number 11852, in a reseda green basic paint scheme from era III as it looked in operation from around 1958 to 1963.
Model: This is a highly detailed, high-class professional model constructed entirely of metal with completely new tooling.
The chassis and main frame are made of die-cast zinc and die-cast brass, and the locomotive body is made of sheet brass. Separately applied parts are made of centrifugally cast brass.
The model has an mfx digital decoder with 32 functions. It also has a programmable buffer capacitor. The model has extensive light and sound functions. A branded, hi-fi-grade loudspeaker in each loco half guarantees optimum sound quality.
The loco can be operated with AC, DC, Märklin Digital, and DCC.
Each loco half is fitted with a centrally mounted Bühler high-performance motor that was specially designed for this model and sends power to all axles!
The motorized prototypical scissor pantographs can be raised and lowered in digital operation.
The white triple headlights with LEDs change over to Swiss white marker lights and are digitally controllable. The Swiss oncoming train light can also be controlled separately in digital operation.
The loco has warm-white LED lighting in the cab and in the machine room/corridor. The control desks in the cabs are also illuminated. The cab doors can be opened.
The interiors of the cab and machine room are reproduced in exceptional detail. The engineer’s cab has a built-in engineer figure.
The locomotive has metal grab irons and many other separately applied details, such as signs, windshield wipers, a whistle, etc. The buffer beams have sprung buffers and separately applied brake lines.
The factory-installed, remote-controllable Telex coupler fitted at the rear can be replaced with the screw couplers provided. A prototypical screw coupler is fitted at the front. A Telex coupler for the front is included with the model.
The model comes with a certificate of authenticity and a cast metal replica of the works plate from the prototype.
The minimum radius for operation is 1,020 mm / 40-1/8".
Length over the buffers 106 cm / 41-3/4".
Weight approx. 13.2 kg / 29 lb 2 oz.
