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Minitrix - 16824 - Locomotive, Diesel, Class 218, Epoch VI - Painted/Lettered - 218 054-3

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Stock Number16824
Original Retail Price289.00€
BrandMinitrix
ManufacturerMinitrix
Body StyleMinitrix Diesel Engine DB Class 218
PrototypeLocomotive, Diesel, Class 218, Epoch VI
Road or Company NamePainted/Lettered (Details)
Reporting MarksPressnitz Valley Railroad (PRESS)
Road or Reporting Number218 054-3
Paint Color(s)Blue & Grey
Print Color(s)White
Coupler TypeRapido Hook NEM Standard Pocket
Coupler MountBody-Mount
Wheel TypeNickel-Silver Plated Metal
Wheel ProfileSmall Flange (Low Profile)
DCC ReadinessDC/DCC Dual Mode Decoder w/Sound
Release Date2022-01-01
Item CategoryLocomotives
Model TypeDiesel
Model SubtypeDB
Model VarietyClass 218
Scale1/160



Specific Item Information: Railroad Construction and Operating Company Pressnitz Valley Railroad, LLC (PRESS) general-purpose locomotive, road number 218 054-3 (former 218 448-9). Diesel hydraulic locomotive with roof version to accommodate the MTU 12V 956 TB 11 motor. With parallel exhaust hoods and a Behr cooling system in a "V" shape. The locomotive looks as it did from December of 2020.
Road Name History:
Some items are designed to have their owner add whatever company marking they choose, usually in the form of decals or dry-transfers. These items are painted in a generic prototypical fashion but with all company affiliation deliberately left off.
These items can be lettered or numbered, but without any company name on it.
Brand/Importer Information:
Trix is a German company that originally made Trix metal construction sets. one of its co-founders was Stephan Bing, the son of the pioneer toy-maker industrialist Ignaz Bing. In 1935 the company began producing the electrically powered model trains that it became famous for, under the Trix Express label. Prior to the outbreak of World War II the Trix company produced a small range of fairly unrealistic AC powered three rail models running at 14 volts.

N gauge models under the Minitrix brand were made from the late 1960s mostly of European prototypes (German and British primarily). North American prototypes were also manufactured and marketed under the Aurora "Postage Stamp" brand; later these items were sold under the American Tortoise, Model Power and Con-Cor brands. Trix sometimes utilized North American consultants to aid in the design of this portion of the product line. The "Hornby Minitrix' brand was used in the 1980s for a short lived range of British outline models using the earlier product tooling.

Trix's owner in the 1980s and 1990s was Mangold, which went bankrupt in the late 1990s and Märklin purchased the assets in January 1997. In part, this purchase was a reflection of Märklin's need for added production capacity; Trix had been manufacturing certain items for Märklin in previous years. The purchase was also in response to the earlier purchase of the Karl Arnold company by the Italian company Rivarossi; Märklin were very keen to take over Trix market share in 2-rail H0 and especially Minitrix, until then Märklin had not marketed N gauge models. In 2003, Märklin introduced its first N gauge models under the well established Minitrix brand. A number Märklin H0 scale three-rail AC locomotives have also been introduced in two-rail DC versions under the Trix logo and many models are shared between the two brands.

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Item created by: CNW400 on 2022-05-19 14:08:11. Last edited by CNW400 on 2022-05-19 14:08:12

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