Highlights:
- featuring elaborate printing in anniversary design;
- the two side walls have different designs;
- with separately attached windscreen wipers;
- the rear light (1x white) or rear train signal (1x red) can be
switched with a DIP switch.
The SBB is celebrating 175 years of railways in Switzerland. On 9th
August 1847, the scheduled operation of passenger trains was
commenced between Zurich and Baden on the “Spanisch Brötli Bahn”.
This represents the start of the Swiss railway network
development.
The historic moment in Swiss railway history is to be celebrated
fittingly with a year-long anniversary program. The Swiss Public
Transport Association, SBB, Postauto and the Alliance Swiss Pass
have between them conceived a wide diversity of celebratory events
for the general public in five regions as well as the official
ceremony planned for 9th August 2022.
A further highlight honouring the anniversary year is the series Re
460 locomotive of ROCO, designed in collaboration with the SBB and
the artist Gudrun Geiblinger. The anniversary locomotive has been
decorated with two different side designs. On one side, the
world-famous “Spanisch Brötli Bahn” commemorates the first railway
in Switzerland and the historic Züricher Hauptbahnhof (Zurich main
station) radiates the charm of the early railway period. The other
side of the locomotive is fully contemporary: it shows the Swiss
ICN express train leaving the Gotthard base tunnel, a masterpiece
of engineering of the Swiss railway industry.
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