Märklin 37875 electric locomotive Re 420 "175 years Schweizer Bahnen", SBB, Ep. VI (WECHSELSTROM/AC)

Märklin 37875 electric locomotive Re 420 "175 years Schweizer Bahnen", SBB, Ep. VI (WECHSELSTROM/AC) Product Details

Description

It all started with the "Spanish rolls" - a delicious pastry from the Swiss spa town of Baden. That's not quite true, of course, but on August 9, 1847, the first railroad built in Switzerland began its scheduled service from Zurich to Baden. Now the servants of Zurich's fine society could comfortably pick up the famous pastries arriving by train early in the morning and deliver them punctually to the Sunday breakfast table without having to make an hour-long hike to Baden and back. Therefore, the name "Spanish Roll Train" soon became established for this route. In the years that followed, a rail construction boom broke out in Switzerland as well, reaching a line length of 2,457 km within 35 years. Finally, between 1902 and 1909, the nationalization of five major railroad companies created the Swiss Federal Railways (SBB). As a result, an increasingly dense rail network wove its way across Switzerland, which is still used extensively today. After all, the Swiss have an absolute record for rail usage, with each person traveling an average of about 1,800 km by train per year. To mark this memorable anniversary, SBB is presenting an electric locomotive with an appropriately eye-catching special design. The locomotive chosen for this purpose was the Re 420 251 (ex Re 4/4 II 11251), whereby this universally usable class formed the mainstay of locomotive-hauled SBB traffic for decades and, with 276 built between 1964 and 1985, also has the highest number of any class built for the Swiss railroads.

Features:

• Märklin - Electric Locomotive Re 420 "175 Years of Swiss Railways" AC.
• Gauge / Type: H0 / 1:87
• Era: VI
• Attractive advertising design for "175 Years of Swiss Railways
• Mid-mounted motor and all 4 axles driven by cardan shafts
• With game world digital decoder mfx+ and various light and sound functions
• With mfx+ digital decoder and extensive sound functions
• Controlled high-performance drive with flywheel mass, centrally mounted
• Traction tires
• Direction-dependent changing three-light headlights and 1 white tail light (Swiss light change) conventionally in operation, digitally switchable
• Lighting can be switched to 1 red tail light when running solo or 2 red tail lights when running solo in Germany
• Headlights on locomotive side 2 and 1 can each be switched off separately digitally
• If the headlights on both sides of the locomotive are switched off, the double A light functions as a red emergency stop signal on both sides of the locomotive
• Driving lamps, cab lighting and engine room lighting can each be digitally switched separately
• Lighting with maintenance-free warm white and red light-emitting diodes (LEDs). Attached metal grab irons
• Couplers can be replaced with enclosed front skirts
• Length over buffers 17.1 cm