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The Victorian Railways received their second series of T class locomotives from late 1959, these were mechanically similar to the first series but featured a new raised height operating cab layout. This new style of raised cab design featured throughout the remainder of the T class series.

SDS Models are pleased to offer the inclusion of the T-2 series within our range of Victorian Railways T class models.

Based upon the tried and proven Austrains T class mechanism we have comprehensively retooled almost every item, bringing the model inline with our exacting scale and design standards. Some 220 new or re-made parts are involved in the production of the four series we are offering below. All the models now feature prototypically correct width long hoods, series specific and appropriate fuel tank and battery box combinations, improved appearance bogie side frames and brake shoe / wheel tread alignment and a host of other design detail enhancements.

Features

• Highly detailed Ready-to-Run HO gauge model
• Precisely tooled plastic body (ABS)
• Genuine Kadee scale head whisker coupler
• Separately applied handrails and detail parts
• 5-Pole skew wound electric motor and dual flywheels
• All wheel drive and electrical pickup
• LED head and marker lights
• All models come standard with an MTC 21 pin motherboard
• Exclusive and locally recorded EMD sounds by DCCSound

Ixion Models HO A986 VR A2 Class 4-6-0 Steam Locomotive Boxpok Oil Tender Plate Cowcatcher

Features

• Smooth-running, powerful motor with flywheel and 40:1 gearbox
• Exceptional level of detail with crisp pad-printed loco numbers
• New push-to-click loco-tender coupling
• Directional lighting
• Speaker installed in tender of all models
• Zimo MS581N18 Next18-plug sound decoder with authentic A2 sound file in all DCC sound versions
• Genuine Kadee #148 scale couplers
• Sprung buffers
• Smokebox painted matt black, satin black applied to rest of loco
• Walschaerts valve gear
• Loco and tender joined in the box
• And, in a World’s First, a full-colour 3D-scanned and colour 3D-printed loco crew is included with each loco in the accessories pack, produced exclusively for Ixion by West Edge 3D.

Specification

• Driving wheels: Boxpok
• Tender: Oil
• Cowcatcher: Plate

This model will feature directional and cab lighting. Night and day headlights will also be included.

All variants of the Class 66 lighting have been tooled for both UK and European variants. The headlights will be prototypical for your model.

All the Class 66 models have 12 axles for the current pick-up and both bogies are motor-driven. The UK variants of the Class 66 will not be fitted with traction tyres, but tyred wheelsets are available as accessories.

European variants will be fitted with one traction tyre per bogie ex-works.

History

The Class 66 is one of the most ubiquitous diesel classes in the UK. 480 examples were built for the UK market with additional examples being imported from other countries pools to bolster the amount in service in the UK. The Class 66 is a progression of the privately commissioned Class 59 that Foster Yeoman had constructed to replace their aging and failing BREL locomotives. The Class 66 shares the same body as the 59 but has uprated internals.

In May 1996 EWS placed an order for 250 units to be built in London, Ontario. These would set EWS back £375 million, with the first units arriving relatively quickly in early 1998. The locomotives would be in service from the point they touched down at Newport Docks, with the locomotives shipped already filled with water and fuel. The last such example arrived in the UK in spring 2016.

66097 arrived in the UK in 1999 as part of the original EWS order and would passed into DB Schenker ownership when EWS rebranded. The locomotive is in the striking cherry red livery and is currently based out of Toton in Nottingham. The locomotive is not, and has never been, named.

Specification

• Item Length - Without Packaging (cm): 17.4
• Item Height - Without Packaging (cm): 3.3
• Item Width - Without Packaging (cm): 2.3
• Item Weight - Without Packaging: 0.18
• Item Scale: 1:120 Scale
• Finish: Painted
• Colour: Red
• Gauge: TT
• DCC Status: Next 18 Socket (NEM 662)
• Operator: DB Schenker
• Designer: English Electric
• Wheel Configuration: Co-Co
• Livery: DB Schenker Red
• Minimum Curve (mm): Radius 2
• Motor: 5 Pole
• Number of Parts: 1
• Class: Class 66
  
  

Entering service from the mid 1956 onwards these 10 English Electric 750 HP shunting locomotives were numbered from 800 to 809. They were predominantly found working around Port Adelaide and in particular Gilman Yard. Later and from time to time they could also be found working Passenger trains around the suburbs. They remained in service until the late 80s and some units through until 1991, all except 801 were scrapped. When AN commenced operations the class leader 800 was renumbered to 810.

Features

• Highly detailed Ready-to-Run HO gauge model
• Precisely tooled plastic body (ABS)
• Genuine Kadee scale head whisker coupler
• Separately applied handrails and detail parts
• 5-Pole skew wound electric motor and dual flywheels
• All wheel drive and electrical pickup
• LED head and marker lights, body mounted
• All models come standard with an MTC 21 pin motherboard
• Exclusive sound by DCCSound

Ruston & Hornsby Ltd, of Lincoln, was formed as the result of the merger between Ruston, Proctor & Co. Ltd and Richard Hornsby & Sons Ltd on September 11, 1918 and their first narrow gauge diesel locomotive left the works on September 1, 1931. In the summer of 1932, production was moved to the larger Boultham Works, where the firm were eventually to become Britain's largest builder of diesel locomotives, with over 6,500 being built by the time production ceased in 1969. Almost as soon as the firm's 44/48HP 0-4-0 locomotives were making an appearance, an upgraded, more powerful 0-4-0 was on the drawing board.

Although many of the features of the 44/48HP were retained for the new 80/88HP, such as the chain drive and running gear, a new type of transmission was fitted, along with Westinghouse airbrakes. The new power unit, Ruston's own 4VPB, delivered 80BHP at 1000rpm and was later supplanted by Ruston's improved 4VPH that delivered 88BHP, but it required compressed air to be injected into the cylinders to be able to start. While running, an air reservoir was kept charged via the braking system, but after standing idle for a period the reservoir depleted and a secondary source was required to recharge the reservoir. This was achieved by fitting a small, secondary 1½HP 'donkey' engine, giving rise to a distinctive raised cover on the right hand side of the engine compartment that differed in size and placement depending on the make of engine used. Two basic weight options were offered for the 80/88HP, of 17 tons and 20 tons, the difference being achieved by attaching weights to the outside frames, as well as to the front and rear buffer beams.

In 1941, Ruston's locomotive classifications were changed, with the 80/88HP becoming 88DS (with the narrow gauge versions being assigned the DSM and DSN suffix, and the broader gauges assigned DSW). Outward appearance changes to the 'standard' locomotives were mainly confined to the cab area, with examples from mid-1947 replacing the open cab with a fully enclosed cab that featured several ad-hoc styles of front window. The final 88DS, 518494, left Boultham Works on 29 November 1967, bringing to an end a production run of 271 locomotives.

Ruston 432478 was built new for British Railways, being delivered in January 1959 to the North Eastern Region Civil Engineers Department at the Leeman Road Permanent Way Stockyard in York, one of six Ruston & Hornsby 88DS locomotives built for British Railways which were distributed between York, Dinsdale Depot, Etherley Tip, Crofton, Hartlepool and Darlington. As well as working shunting duties at Leeman Road, 432478 also worked at the York Central Concrete Depot, which is now the site of the Railway Museum's main visitor car park.

Specifications

• Item Length - Without Packaging (cm): 9
• Item Height - Without Packaging (cm): 5
• Item Width - Without Packaging (cm): 3.2
• Item Weight - Without Packaging: 0.13
• Item Scale: 1:76 Scale 00 Gauge
• License: No
• Finish: Painted
• Colour: Green
• Gauge: OO
• DCC Status: DCC Ready 6 pin socket
• Operator: BR
• Designer: Ruston
• Wheel Configuration: 0-4-0
• Livery: BR Green
• Minimum Curve (mm): Radius 1
• Motor: 3 Pole
• Number of Parts: 1

The DD13 type was a diesel locomotive introduced for shunting, and was manufactured for nearly 10 years with repeated changes to each part.

The 600 series was a vehicle that added multiple-unit overall control to the 300 series, and the cold-climate type was used as an auxiliary engine for snow removal trains operated by DD14s in winter, and on the Uetsu Main Line, it pulled main line freight trains in multiple units only in summer until electrification in 1972.

Features

• Reproduces the cold climate type, which is characterized by the equipment box on the running board, among the multiple-unit type 600 series
• Reproduces the externally fitted taillights
• Number plates are included as separate parts "DD13-610, 619, 625, 626"
• Headlights are equipped with a constant lighting board
• Headlights are lit by incandescent color LEDs
• Powered by flywheel
• Black bogie frame, black wheels
• Dummy coupler, self-coupled TN coupler included
• Can run on mini curved rails

Accessories

• Runner parts: Number plate
• Runner parts: Manufacturer's plate
• Parts: Whistle
• Parts: Automatic TN coupler
• Parts: Dummy coupler
• Parts: Dummy coupler receiver
• Parts: Auxiliary weight