Roco 62626 - Electric Locomotive BR E 40

Prototype: Electric locomotive series E 40 095 in green paint of the German Federal Railways (DB). BB wheel arrangement. Operating: 1960. Use: Freight trains

Model: Finely detailed construction of the 1st Bauserie with accurate representation of the red light bulbs in the Einfachlampen. With 3-light headlights and 2 red lights conclusion. Length over buffers 190 mm.

Charlie's Tip: E 40 - &quot, The&quot, freight locomotive Concurrent with the construction of the fast variant E was nearly equal to 10.1 nurse looking for freight service. She ruled for several decades the mittelschwereren the carriage of goods and services with 879 copies, it is numerically the strongest representative of Einheitsbauprogramms the 1950s. The Chrome-painted machines had no electric brake and distinguished technically by a different gear ratios, resulting from the reduced speed of 100 km / h, which was increased in subsequent years, however, at 110 km per hour. Also as with the other Einheitslokomotiven conversions took place and soon no longer resembled the other, the different color schemes, which often existed side by side, wore hers in this. From 1968 the locomotives were computer-guided as BR 140 and steep grades, the 31 machines in the sub-series of E 40.11 were classified as BR 139th The E 40/140 with their 3700 kW continuous power and its tractive effort of 274 kN a classic freight locomotive, but they proved themselves before in the transport of silver, sometimes even in the suburban railway traffic during the 1972 Olympic Games in Munich. The German railway company (DB AG), prepared some of the 16,490 mm long and 83-ton locomotives that are now all uniformly painted in solid traffic, with modern pantographs. Since the year 1999 will run but the scheduled phasing out of Class 140, new, and mehrsystemtaugliche powerful locomotives are ready for changing of the guard, only occasionally seen, &quot, the&quot, German freight locomotive on active duty.