This engine is special to me. It was produced in a limited run in 2005, it has a factory installed selectrix decoder and I got mine from a shop in Switzerland after an odd flurry of emails made possible by Google translate. It is a supremely smooth runner, it's solid, heavy, and reeks of quality.
Update 1/10/15: one of the drive axels has lost its gear! The result is the gear mechanism is unbalanced and so the locomotive simply will not run. I'm deeply saddened, as this was a favourite. I bought a dead DC Minitrix v200 off of eBay hoping to scavenge it for parts but it was mechanically different. I looked up the pro on the Minitrix web site and they have no stock, so unless one of you can point me in the right direction I think this engine is retired.
The manufacturer says:
Swiss Federal Railways class Am 4/4, B-B wheel arrangement. Built starting in 1953 as the class V 200.0 for the German Federal Railroad
Use: Medium and heavy express trains and fast passenger trains.
Model: Era IV. Die-cast metal body and frame. • Powerful can motor (with bell-shaped armature) with a flywheel • Digital connector • close coupler mechanism Headlight / marker light changeover, 4 axles powered, 2 traction tires Length over the buffers 115 mm / 4-1/2".
This model is being produced only in 2005 in a one-time series.
The fact that the German Federal Railroad retired the class 220 did not automatically mean the end of this successful class. Many of these locomotives were acquired by other railroads and overhauled for new uses, including track laying work in Saudi Arabia and in Switzerland, where the class 220 was used for an even longer period of time.
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