Highlights:
- featuring elaborate printing in anniversary design;
- the two side walls have different designs;
- the model is equipped with the delicate Faiveley-type
pantographs;
- metal die-cast chassis;
- closed front apron included;
- prototypical light and sound functions, switchable using on-board
decoder;
- driver’s cab lighting, switchable in digital mode.
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 FLEISCHMANN, 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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