Most Important Facts

Prototype: Swiss Federal Railways (SBB/CFF/FFS) class RAe four-system electric powered rail car train, 1st class. 6 part unit with 1 control car, 1 open seating car, 1 motor car with a galley, 1 bar car with an open seating compartment, 1 open seating car, and 1 control car. Crimson red / beige TEE basic paint scheme as RAe TEE 1052 "Cisalpin". Used in international TEE service from Milan via Domodossola - Simplon-Brig - Lausanne - Vallorbe - Dijon to Paris. The train looks as it did in the mid-Seventies.

Model: The train has the new mfx+ digital decoder and extensive sound functions mounted in the motor car. It also has controlled high-efficiency propulsion with a flywheel, centrally mounted in the motor car. 4 axles powered through cardan shafts. Traction tires. The triple headlights and dual red marker lights change over with the direction of travel, will work in conventional operation, and can be controlled digitally. The train has factory-installed interior lighting that can be controlled separately in digital operation. The cab lighting in engineer's cabs 1 and 2 can each be controlled separately in digital operation. Maintenance-free warm white and red LEDs are used for the lighting. The train has four different pantographs in an offset arrangement and detailed roof equipment. The train also has separately applied metal grab irons. The engineer's cabs and the passenger areas have interior details. There is a special close-coupled mechanical and electrical connection between the cars. Both end cars have pickup shoes, and the power pickup switches automatically to the pickup shoe at the front of the train. The ends of the train have a representation of the Scharfenberg coupler (non-working). Minimum radius for operation 360 mm / 14-3/16".
Train length approximately 161.0 cm / 63-3/8".