Roco 70408 – 2-piece set: Electric locomotives 151 094-0 and 151 117-9, DB, DCC Sound

Locomotive set with the electric locomotives 151 094 and 151 117 of the German Federal Railway.

■ Both locomotives fully equipped
■ Many extra-applied plug-in parts partially designed with etching technology
■ Wheels with low flanges
■ Hauls ore trains
■ Perfectly matches the wagon sets items 77030, 77031
■ Coupling type AK69e is attached to the package
■ Individually switchable headlight or tail light and driver’s cab lighting in digital mode

As high points in the goods transport, the class 151 locomotives hauled the heaviest ore trains in Western Europe between the North Sea ports and the Peine-Salzgitter steelworks and the Saarland from 1976 onwards. The trains carried loads of up to 5.700 tons. It operated only in double traction and with an automatic coupling, since the conventional screw coupling would not have withstood the very high traction load.