Roco 62580 - Electric Locomotive 1100 Botsneus

Prototype electric locomotive was originally a French design Series 1100 of the Dutch Railways (NS). BB wheel arrangement. Conversion format &quot, Botsneus&quot, with new modernized fronts. Implementation in NS-gray-yellow paint. Operating: the 1990s. Applications: passenger and light freight trains.

Model: Finely detailed reconstruction of the locomotive body with 3-light headlights and 2 red lights . Length over buffers 150 mm.

Charlie's Info: Series 1100 NS - Botsneus. In the Netherlands it is the nature of electric locomotives tradition of French origin, so also the series 1100th The 83-ton and 14,184 mm long locomotive is based on the French Series BB 8001 and BB 8100 Alstom. Between 1950 and 1956 a total of 60 locomotives of the 1100 series were put into service, the different, sometimes flashy finishes were in Turkish. The Series 1100 has been transformed over time at the front, which gives it a completely different appearance, humanly speaking, she had a nose job, in Dutch: &quot, botsneus&quot, . The four-axle, 130 km / h fast locomotive was until 1999, thus nearly 50 years tirelessly in service with the Dutch Railways, some are preserved as museum locomotives.