Marklin Z 88250 Class ETA 150 Rechargeable Battery Powered Rail Car with Class ESA 150 Control Car Insider 2023 New Item

Class ETA 150 Rechargeable Battery Powered Rail Car with Class ESA 150 Control Car
Model: This model is completely new tooling. The frames are constructed of metal, and the bodies are made of plastic. Both trucks of the powered rail car are driven by a motor with a bell-shaped armature. Triple warm white LED headlights and dual red LED marker lights change over with the direction of travel. The rear headlights and marker lights on the motor car can be turned off. The cabs are modelled with LED interior lighting. The passenger area is suggested and includes lighting. There is a very high level of detailing with a fine and extensive paint scheme and lettering. A high model weight provides good pulling power. Length over the buffers approximately 217 mm / 8-1/2.
Prototype: German Federal Railroad (DB) class ETA 150 rechargeable battery powered rail car and class ESA 150 control car in a crimson paint scheme for Era III. The units look as they did around 1965.

Electric mobility has been extremely fashionable for some time. Here, the by no means outdated German Federal Railroad had developed as early as the Fifties an ingenious concept for running trains electrically on non-electrified routes. Starting in 1953, the DB purchased 242 rechargeable battery powered rail cars as the classes ETA 150 and 176, which were underway ecologically for decades in the north, south, east, and west. The 232 class ETA 150 units ran mostly in conjunction with the control cars (class ESA 150) made to go with them. Their very powerful Siemens traction motors even allowed the units to pull through cars, mail cars, or freight cars. Charging stations were set up in the respective areas of use for these units affectionately nicknamed Rechargeable Lightning Bolts or Whistle Buoys. The range, depending on the type of battery, was an astonishing 250 – 500 kilometers / 156 – 312 miles. In the Eighties, the star for these progressive units began to sink. The battery technology at that time was maintenance intensive and the frames for the powered cars increasingly sagged due to the immense weight of the rechargeable batteries, which led to the new nickname Pot-Belly Pig. The last set was retired in 1995. Two units remain preserved in Bochum-Dahlhausen and Nördlingen. Such Rechargeable Lightning Bolts could also be an alternative today. Nevertheless, modern battery powered rail cars are hardly a topic in the prototype. Not so, with Märklin model railroads: In the small scale, the Whistle Buoys can continue to replace or supplement steam and diesel.

The 88250 is being produced in a one-time series exclusively for Insider Club members.

Completely new tooling for Insider members.Motor with a bell-shaped armature.Warm white LED headlights and red LED marker lights change over with the direction of travel.Rear headlights and marker lights on the motor car can be turned off. Frames constructed of metal, and bodies made of plastic.Cab lighting and cab interior details.Suggested interior details including passenger area lighting.