Product Features and Details
The Model:
Electronic reversing relay. Hoop-couplings. Super-detailling, -livery and -lettering. Inset windows. Prototypical "daylight" between boiler and chassis. Fully operational, finely detailed Heusinger valve gear. Brake blocks between the wheels. Cast metal chassis. Motor with flywheel. Drive onto 8 driving wheels. Triple headlights (triple co-ordinated tail lights by fitting the light-change unit 6542). Slot-guide mechanism at each end with automatic PROFI-couplings for true close-coupling and pre-uncoupling. Standard NEM 362 coupling socket. Epoch III.
Based on:
Our model, the 98 812, was the last 98 running on the DB. In contrast to class 98.8 in the Reichsbahn-version (Epoch II) the Bundesbahn loco (Epoch III) has got triple headlights, a coal bunker with retainers and shortened hand rails on the cab roof. Of course the lettering is typical of the DB.
