Finely detailed model with separately attached plug-in parts.
Prepared for driver's cab lighting, which can be switched in digital mode ; "In 1941 and 1942 a total of four type D 311 double locomotives were operated by the Deutsche
Wehrmacht put into service. The D 311.01 a / b, also known as "Walli", became
used on the Crimean peninsula. It ranked with its sister machine D 311.02
a / b the "Dora", the largest railway gun ever built. The locomotives D 311.03
and 04 were intended for use with the €œSchwerer Gustav 2€ gun and
presumably served in the west. A fifth and sixth double locomotive was made
Although it was still ordered from Krupp, it could no longer be built due to the war
will.
The machines were equipped with electrical power transmission. In every half unit
a direct current generator driven directly by the diesel engine supplied the electrical power
Drive motors on each of the four wheel sets with energy. The axis sequence designation
was accordingly Thu + Thu. The controls of both locomotive halves were electric
coupled and were operated from the driver's cab in front. The
The total weight of the machine was 147 tons. The top speed was up
75 km / h designed. In the firing position of the "Dora", the locomotives also delivered the
electrical energy to operate the gun.
At the end of the war, the double locomotive D 311.03 A / B was near Freilassing, the
after repairs from 1948-49 at Krauss-Maffei as V 188 001 a / b from the "Reichsbahn"
West €could be put back into operation. The one found in the Netherlands
D 311.04 A / B could be bought from the still young Deutsche Bundesbahn at the end of 1949
to be bought. After reconditioning, this machine was renamed V 188 002 in 1951
a / b handed over to the company. Was only used as a spare parts dispenser at
Krupp in Essen accumulated D 311.02 A / B. The two restored machines
the BR V 188 proved itself in the heavy freight train and pushing service, mainly
on the Spessart ramp. At the end of the 1950s there was a conversion to Maybach
Motors like those used in the V 200.0 and in the VT 08.
After a generator damage, the V 188 001 had to be shut down in 1968.
V 188 002, later 288 002, was still in operation in the Franconian region until 1972. 1973
both machines were scrapped. "