Product Features and Details
The Model:
Automatic tilting coach body according to the track curvature. Super-detailling, -livery and -lettering. Inset windows. Interior details. One sprung pantograph on each power car. Cast metal chassis. Motor with flywheel. Drive on 8 wheels, of which 2 are fitted with traction tyres. With standard NEM 651 socket for installation of a decoder (DCC: 6876 / TWIN: 6846). Triple headlights and red tail lights co-ordinated with the direction of travel. The coaches/power cars are equipped ready to install interior lighting. Rigid coupling bar with moveable passages between the wagons. Epoch V.
Based on: Starting in 1999, German Rail (DB AG), will be offering its long distance passengers a completely new travel experience! The ICE-T - a multiple unit with tilt technology - will replace InterCity trains, which up to now have been loco hauled. It consists of intermediate coaches with restaurant coach and driving cars fitted with control cabs. Besides the tilt technology - what is really new - is the dispensing with powered driving units as in the ICE and ICE 2. Instead, the individual bogies of the intermediate coaches and restaurant coaches are fitted with traction motors, which means that the ICE-T is a true "multiple unit" in the classical sense. A seven-car unit with five driven intermediate coaches has a power rating of 4000 kW, and can reach a top speed of 230 km/h. The futuristec design bears more resemblance to a passenger jet than the previous trains.
