Trix 22604 - DB AG cl 120.1 Electric Locomotive (traffic red)

Prototype: German Railroad, Inc. (DB AG), Long Distance Service Business Area, class 120.1 electric locomotive. In a "traffic red" paint scheme; the locomotive looks as it does in current service. Road number: 120 130-0. Use: Premium passenger and freight service.

Highlights

• 5-pole motor with a skewed armature and a flywheel for silky move running characteristics.
• All 4 axles powered for optimal pulling power.
• Highly detailed plastic body.
• The buffer beam can be completely equipped for display case use.
• Warm white LED's for headlights, which change over with the direction of travel; the headlights facing the train being pulled or pushed can be turned off in digital operation for prototypical operations.
• 21-pin digital connector, ready for the future.

Product

Model: Era V. The locomotive frame is die-cast metal. The locomotive has a 21-pin digital connector. It also has a 5-pole motor with a skewed armature and a flywheel, centrally mounted. All 4 axles powered through cardan shafts. The headlights are maintenance-free, warm white LEDs, and they will work in conventional operation. In digital operation, the headlights can be turned off at either engineer's cab 1 or 2. The locomotive has detailed roof equipment. The engineer's cabs have interior details; the front one has a figure of an engineer. The locomotive has NEM coupler pockets with close coupler mechanisms. The buffer beam details are included in a bag so that you can equip the front of the locomotive either fully prototypically correct for display case use or for train operations.

Length over the buffers 220.7 mm / 8-11/16".

Publications

- New Items 2008 - Main Catalog 2008/2009 - Main Catalog 2009/2010 - Main Catalog 2010/2011

Prototype information

The Class 120 - A Universal Locomotive with Three-Phase Technology. The class 120.1 was the first three-phase locomotive in the world built as a regular production model and run on the German railroad system. The class 120's technology was intended to point the way for the later development of the ICE powered end cars. Apart from the transformers that were in need of improvement, the test runs were impressive, and road no. 120 001 became the fastest three-phase locomotive in the world by virtue of its record run at 265 km/h / 166 mph in 1984. The class 120 had been developed as a universal locomotive, i.e. for fast, premium passenger service as well as for service as motive power for fast freight trains. In 1984, the German Federal Railroad decided to purchase 60 class 120.1 locomotives. Compared to the four prototypes, which were authorized for a maximum speed of 160 km/h / 100 mph, the 120.1 was intended to reach a maximum speed of 200 km/ / 125 mph like road no. 120 005 had already done. The latter locomotive differed from the other pre-production locomotives in a somewhat different shape to its ends.

The class 120.1 locomotives were, until the delivery of the class 101, the only locomotives allowed to push Intercity push/pull trains at 200 km/h / 125 mph. All of the locomotives were designed right from the start for multiple unit motive power consists. However, these units were seldom seen pulling freight trains. The 120.1 was used primarily in IC/EC service. The regular production locomotives were delivered in the new "Chinese red" paint scheme. Almost all of the locomotives are now painted in the current "traffic red" color scheme. Using the the class 120.1 as a starting point, the German Railroad designed locomotives with large format advertising - the advertising locomotive was born. The test runs with the 120.0 were so promising and the performance of the 120.1 was impressive in daily use, but the original wish to develop a universal locomotive with the class 120 was not fulfilled, and the DB purchased neither another production run of the 120.1 nor a successor locomotive. However, this locomotive was the inspiration for classes developed later and built in large quantities, and it represents an indispensable step to the premium rail service of the present.

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