The "Cottbus"
This extensively decorated locomotive symbolizes in a special paint scheme the history of the Cottbus locomotive and car maintenance facility from steam locomotive overhauling to the latest facility for the complicated maintenance of the ICEs.

Prototype: German Railroad, Inc. (DB AG) general-purpose locomotive, road number 218 497-6, in the current paint scheme for the DB Locomotive/Car Maintenance, Inc. Cottbus, with the logos of the firms Märklin and PIKO below the cab windows. Diesel-hydraulic locomotive with roof version to fit the type MTU 12V 956 TB 11 motor. Parallel exhaust hoods and a Behr cooling system in a V shape included.