N-Scale 10/2018: Minitrix, Heljan

Prototype: Class Re 484 electric locomotive as a dual system locomotive with 4 pantographs, 2 open seating cars, 1st class, 1 open seating car, 2nd class, all of the cars painted and lettered for Cisalpino AG, used on the Swiss Federal Railways (SBB). 

Model: The locomotive has a digital decoder for operation with DCC, Selectrix, and Selectrix 2. It has a motor with a flywheel, 4 axles powered, traction tires, and LED headlights. All of the controllable functions can be controlled in the DCC format as well as in the Selectrix 2 format. The express train passenger cars have close coupler mechanisms. Total length over the buffers 613 mm / 24-1/8". 

Highlights: LEDs for headlights. 

One-time series. 

66656 Lighting kit. 66616 LED lighting kit. 

This train set can be lengthened as desired with the 15549 add-on car. 

Prototype: Class 232 painted and lettered for Container Terminal Halle Saale (CTHS), C-C wheel arrangement. Built starting in 1974 in USSR for the German State Railroad (DR), nicknamed "Ludmilla". Use: Heavy freight trains. 

Model: The locomotive has a 14-pin digital connector and a motor with a flywheel. 4 axles powered. Traction tires. Length over the buffers 126 mm / 5". 

One-time series. 

Model: Chassis and body made of die-cast metal. Built-in digital decoder and noise generator for operation with DCC, Selectrix and Selectrix 2. Motor with flywheel, 4 axles powered, traction tires. Headlamps and taillights changing with the direction of travel, with warm white LEDs, cab lighting, digitally switchable. Length over buffer 104 mm.

Vorbild: Klappdeckelwagen der Verbandsbauart K 15, 2-achsiger Kesselwagen, gedeckter Güterwagen G 07, 2-achsiger Kühlwagen eingestellt bei einer Privatbrauerei. 
Modell: Kinematik für Kurzkupplung. Gesamtlänge über Puffer 230 mm. 
Lieferumfang
1 Klappdeckelwagen
1 Kesselwagen
1 Gedeckter Güterwagen
1 Kühlwagen

Einmalige Serie.

"Sulfuric Acid Tank Car" Car Set.
Prototype: Sulfuric acid tank cars, used on the German Railroad, Inc. (DB AG), privately owned cars painted and lettered for the firm Aretz GmbH & Co., Krefeld, Germany. The cars look as they currently do in real life.

Model: The cars have detailed, partially open frames. The side sills are represented as a "U" shape with beckets. The cars have Minden-Dorstfeld type trucks. They also have separately applied work platforms. The cars have separately applied brakeman's platforms. The cars have different car numbers. Total length over the buffers 320 mm / 12-5/8".

Highlights: New tooling.

Prototype: Dutch Railways (NS) rotary vane side unloading vehicle. Version with lockable cargo space. Use: For moisture-sensitive goods.

Model: Wagon with different operating numbers and with many added details, with kinematics for close coupling. Total length over buffer 180 mm.

Highlight: Shape variant with hinged lids as cover.

Prototype: 4 four-axle pressurized gas tank wagons of different designs with sunshield and without sunshield. Private cars of the companies Eva Eisenbahn-Verkehrsmittel AG, Dusseldorf, VTG GmbH, Hamburg and Ruhr-Nitrogen AG, Bochum. All cars set at the German Federal Railways (DB). Operating condition around 1962.

Model: All cars with detailed chassis and openwork frames. External longitudinal beam with outwardly open U-profile. Bogies of the Minden-Dorstfeld type. Versions with and without sunshield. Attached brakeman's stages. With kinematics for close coupling. Total length over buffer 320 mm.

Highlight: redesign. Design differences.

Unique series.

plastic kit