Description
Electric locomotive 185 552 of MRCE, rented out to the National French Railways.
Design features Nightjet transport labelling
Pantographs with innovative fastening
Separately applied windscreen wipers
Pilots fastened to chassis
Elaborately printed model
With switchable high beam and individually switchable headlight or tail light and driver's cab lighting in digital mode
Together with the DB-185s, these locomotives 185 551 - 557 were the first TRAXX engines approved for use in France. They were delivered to MRCE in 2005/2006 in black livery. The Nightjet transport Paris - Cologne - Vienna was introduced in December 2022. The night connection is operated as a joint venture between the SNCF and the Austrian Federal Railways. Amongst others, specially-designed engines are used to haul the trains.
- Coupling: NEM shaft 362 with close coupling mechanism
- Minimum radius: 358 mm
- Flywheel: yes
- Number of driven axles: 3
- Number of axles with traction tyres: 2
- Article number: 7520053
- Scale: H0
- Epoch: VI
- Railway Company: SNCF
General data
- Head light: 3 headlight, dependent on the direction of travel/2 tail lights, dependent on the direction of travel
- LED head light: yes
- Additional light function: yes
- Interior lighting: Yes, LED, Digital switchable, Driver's cab lighting
- Control: AC
- Interface: Electrical interface for traction units PluX22
- Digital decoder: PluX22
- Sound: yes
- Buffer capacitor: yes
Electrical
- Length over buffer: 217 mm
Measurements