Description
The TRIX Northlander is available for purchase by Marklin/Trix Insider and Profi Club members only. Please contact us for details. Discounts do NOT apply to this product.
Prototype: Ontario Northland Railway (ONR), Canada (former class RAm TEE diesel powered train) Northlander diesel powered train. 4-part set in azure/yellow basic paint scheme. 1 motor car, 1 compartment car, 1 dining car, 1 open seating car with a control cab. Road number 1981. The train looks as it did in the Eighties.
Model: This is a 4-part unit. It has a digital decoder and extensive sound and light functions. It also has controlled, high-efficiency propulsion with a flywheel in the motor car, centrally mounted. Two of three driving wheelsets in the two 3-axle trucks are powered using cardan shafts. Traction tires. There is factory-installed interior lighting in the compartment, dining, and open seating cars. Triple headlights and dual red marker lights change over with the direction of travel. They and the interior lighting will work in conventional operation and can be controlled digitally. The interior lighting in the baggage area of the motor car can be controlled separately in digital operation. The engine room lighting in the motor car and cab lighting in the motor car and control cab of the open seating car can all be controlled separately in digital operation. The classification lights on the ends of this train can be controlled digitally. Maintenance-free, warm white and various colored LEDs are used for the lighting. There are multiple conductor special couplings with guide mechanisms between the train units for a continuous electrical connection of the entire train. There is pickup changeover with current supply depending on the direction of travel from the motor car or the open seating car with a control cab, depending on which car is at the front of the train. There are many separately applied details. The two ends of the train have a Scharfenberg coupler (no function) modelled. The minimum radius for operation is 437.5 mm / 17-1/8. The train can be run on Radius 1 if you ignore the clearance profile. Total length of the powered train over the couplers approximately 113 cm / 44-1/2.
This model can be found in an AC version in the Märklin H0 assortment under item number 39705 exclusively for Insider members.