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AddMould variant!
■ Variant with Voith cooling system
■ Version in traffic red livery
■ Locomotive front end without 1,000-volt heating cable
■ Separately applied plug-in parts, some of them etched
■ The model features prototypically accurate low wheel flanges
■ Wheel sets with 1.2 mm high flanges available as spare parts (items 145433 and 145435)
Diesel locomotive 217 017 belonged to the small Class 217 of the Deutsche Bundesbahn, with just 15 locomotives. Built by Krupp in 1968, the locomotive was part of the V-160 family and originally featured, in addition to the traction diesel motor, a separate heating diesel engine for supplying passenger trains. This made it versatile for both passenger and freight traffic.
217 017 was based in Regensburg for many years and was transferred to the Mühldorf depot in 2000. There, the locomotive – which had by then been repainted in traffic red – was used primarily for freight traffic. In 2008, it underwent a simplified major overhaul. During this overhaul, the heating diesel motor, which was no longer required, was removed and replaced with ballast.
As one of the last remaining locomotives of its class, 217 017 remained in service with DB Schenker Rail until the end of 2011 and was the last operational 217 in the Deutsche Bahn fleet. In February 2014, it was finally withdrawn from service and sold to the Pfalzbahn.
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