Marklin H0 37875 Class Re 420 Electric Locomotive Summer 2022

Class Re 420 Electric Locomotive
Model: The locomotive has an mfx+ digital decoder and extensive sound functions. It also has controlled high-efficiency propulsion with a flywheel, centrally mounted. 4 axles powered by means of cardan shafts. Traction tires. The triple headlights and 1 white marker light (Swiss headlight / marker light code) change over with the direction of travel, will work in conventional operation, and can be controlled digitally. When the locomotive is running light, the lighting can be switched to 1 red marker light. The headlights at Locomotive Ends 2 and 1 can be turned off separately in digital operation. When the headlights are off at both ends, the double A lights are on at both ends as a red emergency light. The locomotive has long-distance headlights, cab lighting, and engine room lighting, each of which can be controlled separately in digital operation. Maintenance-free warm white and red LEDs are used for the lighting. The locomotive has separately applied metal grab irons. The couplers can be replaced by end skirting included with the locomotive. Length over the buffers 17.1 cm / 6-3/4.
Prototype: Swiss Federal Railways (SBB), SBB Cargo Business Area, class Re 420 electric locomotive. Special adhesive covering for the anniversary 175 Years of Swiss Railroading. Road number Re 420 251-1. The locomotive looks as it currently does in 2022.


In cooperation with SBB Cargo

This model can be found in a DC version in the Trix H0 assortment under item number 25875.
Attractive promotional design for 175 Years of Swiss Railroading.Centrally mounted motor and all 4 axles powered by means of cardan shafts.mfx+ World of Operation digital decoder and a variety of light and sound functions included.Design created in cooperation with Ms. Gudrun Geiblinger.

Everything began with the Spanish Brötli – a delicious pastry from the Swiss resort town of Baden. Naturally, this is not the whole truth, but on August 9, 1847, the first railroad built in Switzerland from Zürich to Baden started scheduled operations. Now the servants of high Zürich society could pick up this famous pastry rolling out early in the morning comfortably by train and bring it promptly to the Sunday breakfast table, without an hour's trip to Baden and back. For that reason, this route soon acquired the name Spanisch-Brötli-Bahn (Spanish Brötli Railroad). In succeeding years a rail construction boom broke out in Switzerland too, which reached a route length of 2,457 kilometers / 1,536 miles within 35 years. Finally, between 1902 and 1909, the five large railroad companies were nationalized into the Swiss Federal Railways (SBB). The result was the weaving of an increasingly dense rail network across Switzerland, which is still extensively used today. The Swiss still show an marked preference for using the railroad, because on average they travel about 1,800 kilometers / 1,125 miles per year by train.On this notable anniversary, the SBB is presenting an electric locomotive with an appropriately striking special design. Road number Re 420 251 (former Re 4/4 II 11251) was selected for this purpose. For decades, this general-purpose class has been an essential support of locomotive-hauled SBB service. At 276 units built between 1964 and 1985, it is also the class built in the highest quantity for the Swiss Railways.
Attractive promotional design for 175 Years of Swiss Railroading.