Piko 22002 – Diesellok Rh 500 NS, III, DCC Sound

The Dutch State Railways (NS) 500 series comprised 45 diesel-electric locomotives that were put into service from 1946. The first ten units (numbers 501-510) arrived in the Netherlands after the Second World War via the War Department of the British Army. The grey three-axle machines were mainly used for shunting services at larger stations such as Utrecht, Zwolle and Rotterdam Feijenoord. Due to their reliability, NS added further locomotives to the fleet (numbers 511-545), which were initially painted olive green and then yellow-grey from the 1970s. Today, four Rh 500 locomotives are still preserved in Dutch museums.

New design | Digital switching of drivers cab lighting. | Drivers desk lighting | Prototypical front lamps | Fine, free-standing mounted grab rails | Detailed drivers cab equipment | Free-standing mounted ladders