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Prototype: Class E 10.12 Express locomotive with aerodynamic front, extra heavy bogies and front aprons. Delivery condition from 1962. Model: The locomotive has an mfx digital decoder, Softdrive Sine high-efficiency propulsion and a sound generator. Maintenance-free motor in compact design, centrally installed. 4 axles powered by cardan shafts, traction tires. Headlights and marker lights with low-maintenance, warm white LEDs will work in conventional operation, and can be controlled digitally. Inset hand rails made of metal. Cab with interior, fitted control knob. Mounted roof walkways. Highlights: * Metal version. * Compact design Softdrive Sine high-efficiency propulsion. * mfx decoder and sound: whistle and station announcements. About Aprons and Ironers ... With the newly built E 10 express train locomotive, the DB was equipped for the smooth operation of its own express train network after releasing the steam locomotives. Fast traffic on the international TEE network, however, required higher speeds than usual. Krauss-Maffei, Henschel and Siemens developed a high-efficiency locomotive in 1962, which got a longer transmission, new bogies and modern aerodynamics. The "iron" on the front, the padded buffers, the aprons under the buffer beams and the fan band on the side optimized the shape for 160 km / h - and they looked good. In the short term, this successful design was therefore also adopted for the 150 series locomotives that were still in the making, which were then used as class E 10.3. The 31 high-efficiency locomotives have proven themselves on the showcase trains of the DB: "Rheingold", "Rheinpfeil", "Rheinblitz", "Helvetia" and others. Electrical engineering and mechanics of the E 10.12 were the technical basis for the next generation of express locomotives: the E 03. The Rheingold cars for the E 10.12 express locomotive are models 43850, 43860, 43870 and 43880.
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