Product Features and Details
Diesel-electric double locomotive V 188 002 of the Deutsche Bundesbahn.
Edition model!
Shape variant!
- Epoch IIIb version in red livery
- Ventilation component on the roof, pipe with mushroom-shaped cover
- One battery box on each side at the rear right
- Double locomotive formed from two units that are permanently coupled to one another; Both units fully equipped with engines
- Complete replica of the transition area between the two units
- Elaborately reproduced engine room
- Finely detailed model with separately attached plug-in parts
- Frame panels, each with 4 sandboxes
- Direction-dependent triple headlights and two red tail lights
- Openwork roof ventilators
- Driver's cab, driver's desk and switch box lighting as well as engine room lighting installed; can be switched on digitally
In 1941 and 1942, a total of four double locomotives of the type D 311 were put into service by the German Wehrmacht. They were built to transport heavy railway guns. Two locomotives, the V 188 001 a/b and the V 188 002 a/b, continued to be used by the German Federal Railway after the war. A third locomotive served as a spare parts donor. They proved their worth in heavy freight train and push-pull service, primarily on the Spessart ramp. After a generator failure, V 188 001 had to be retired in 1968. V 188 002, later renamed 288 002, remained in service in the Franconian region until 1972. Both locomotives were scrapped in 1973.
