Serie 6400 (NS) | Gauge Minitrix - Article No. 12796

Diesel Locomotive

Prototype: Dutch State Railways (NS) class 6400. B-B wheel arrangement, built starting in 1988. Use: Freight service and switching work.

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Diesel Locomotive
Diesel Locomotive

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Article No. 12796
Gauge / Design type Minitrix /
Era V
Kind Diesel Locomotives
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  • Product description

    Model: Era V. The locomotive has a digital connector, 4 axles powered, 2 traction tires, a plastic body, separately applied metal hand rails on the sides and ends, white headlights / red marker lights that change over with the direction of travel, and a close coupler mechanism.
    Length over the buffers 90 mm / 3-9/16".

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  • Publications

    - New Items 2005 - Main Catalog 2006
  • Prototype information

    The Dutch State Railways awarded a contract to Maschinenfabrik Kiel (MAK) to design an entirely new diesel locomotive in order to modernize the non-electric locomotive roster. The result was the diesel-electric class 6400, which was based on the DE 1002, a class used by several private railroads in Germany. Nevertheless, there are significant differences: For example, electrical components were used from the development of the class 120 electric locomotive. For the electronically controlled three-phase asynchronous motors to achieve the required power of almost 1,200 kilowatts / 1,608 horsepower, both the motor and the fuel tank had to be enlarged. This made the entire locomotive 1.5 meters / 4 feet 11-1/16 inches longer. Most of the 120 locomotives of this type still have the classic gray-yellow NS paint scheme. However, since the freight service in the Netherlands had been privatized, a few locomotives have already been delivered in the new Railion red paint scheme.

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