Digital starter set freight train with BR 217 DB Ep.VI

Prototype: Deutsche Bahn AG (DB AG) diesel locomotive 217 002-5, with three VTG two-axle tank cars. The locomotive looks as it did around 2010.

Highlights:
- Locomotive equipped with mfx-DCC decoder
- New concrete sleeper track

Model: The locomotive features a die-cast metal frame, an mfx DCC decoder, a 5-pole motor with a flywheel. Headlights change over with the direction of travel, 4 axles powered, and traction tires. The cars have close-coupler mechanisms. The locomotive comes with a switched-mode power supply and a Minitrix Power Control Stick (wireless infrared control unit). The cable for connecting turnouts is included. The track includes an oval track with curved tracks with a radius of 2 (outer dimensions: approximately 90 x 47 cm).
Recommended plate size: 130 x 55 cm.
Total length over buffers 267 mm.

Can be expanded with the Minitrix track program with concrete sleepers.

Additional model information:
Built in 1965 by Krupp, Essen, Fab. No. 4810
Acceptance 10.11.1966 as V 162 002
First Bw: Hamm (Westf)
other depots: Mühldorf, Munich Central Station, Regensburg
01.01.1968: new number 217 002-5 (as model)
28.04.1989: new number 753 002-5
21.12.2006: old number 217 002-5
01.01.2007: new number 92 80 1217 002-5 D-DB
13.10.2012: decommissioned at the Mühldorf (Inn) depot
2013 Sale to private railway
2018: Locomotive decommissioned

Model in condition around 1970
15 locomotives built