Diesel Locomotive BR 204 Pressnitztalbahn
Road no.: 204 011-5 / 92 80 1203 212-6
Model details
- All-wheel power consumption via wheel pickups
- All wheels driven
- Wheel axles mounted in brass bushings
- 5-pole motor
- Spring buffers
- Chassis frame, driver‘s cab and transmission case in die-cast zinc
- Lighting with maintenance-free LEDs
- Illuminated driver´s cab
- Short coupling kinematics (version BASIC+) or digital coupling (version EXTRA)
- Free-standing handrails
- Clear view through the driver‘s cabin with complete interior fittings
- Front window with attachment frame
- True-to-original bogie with many individually mounted parts such as sand pits, wheel flange lubrication, axle bearing, primary suspension, indusimagnet and parts of the brake system
Info about the original
In order to close the gap in the Deutsche Reichsbahn (DR) fleet of internal combustion locomotives between the V60 and V180, the Karl Marx locomotive factory in Babelsberg near Potsdam (LOB/LKM, formerly Orenstein & Koppel) was commissioned to design and manufacture two prototype locomotives of the V100 series. Production of the series locomotives was transferred to Lokomotivbau Elektrotechnische Werke Hans Beimler in Hennigsdorf near Berlin (LEW, formerly AEG). LEW revised the design of the V100 and produced its own prototype, the V100 003, which differed significantly from the first two prototypes. After testing and eliminating minor defects, the DR successfully used the V100 on branch lines for decades. Between 1965 and 1983, LEW manufactured almost 1,150 locomotives of this type. Numerous modifications and further developments led to different series designations. These locomotives were used by the DR as series 108, 110, 111, 112, 114 and 115. After being taken out of service by the DR, many of the V100 locomotives found further use on private railways. In the DB‘s renumbering plan, these DR locomotives were given new series designations, such as 202 or 204. Some of these locomotives were converted again at the ALSTOM Lokomotiven Service GmbH plant in Stendal (formerly RAW Stendal). The conversion concept could be adapted to customer requirements, resulting in locomotives with different engines and different appearances. Many of the locomotives converted by ALSTOM were given the new series designation 203. The locomotive with the operating number 204 011-5 has undergone several modifications during its service life. The locomotive was delivered in 1976 as 110 844-8 from LEW to the DR and converted in 1988 at the Dresden depot to 112 844-6. It ran for DB AG as 202 844-7 until it was decommissioned in 2001. In 2003, the locomotive, which had been converted by ALSTOM, was delivered to the Pressnitztalbahn as 204 011-5. From 2007, it was also given the NVR number 92 80 1203 212-6 D-PRESS.
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