Sugar Beet Transport Train Set with a Class V 36

Prototype

Freight train for the fall sugar beet harvest on the route of the transportation company Grafschaft Hoya (VGH) from Syke via Bruchhausen-Vilsen and Hoya to Eystrup hauled by road number V 36 005 (former DB 236 237-4) as it classically looked in the Eighties. The VGH ranked as a V 36 paradise. This transportation company still had 8 units of this type on its roster. For almost 35 years the V 36 units were the backbone of operations on the VGH. Since 1998 road number V 36 005 has belonged to the German Railroad Association based in Bruchhausen-Vilsen. This is an Insider Club cooperation partner, and it is kept operational for special runs. The beautiful thing here is it was never allowed to leave its last area of activity and never allowed to drop its last appearance from the regular planned service era on the VGH. Even now the authenticity of a V 36 on a privately owned railroad can still be experienced in a museum setting. The car roster of the sugar beet train consists of three type Eo 17 gondolas. The cars were taken empty by the VGH at the DB transfer stations of Syke and Eystrup using the side rod diesel locomotives originally built for the German Army and later given back to the DB loaded.

Highlights

• Motor with a bell-shaped armature.
• Building kit for a sugar beet loading installation.

Model

The locomotive has a motor with a bell-shaped armature, constructed mostly of metal. The headlights and marker lights are warm white and red LEDs. They change over with the direction of travel. All the cars are prototypically imprinted. The cars come with a load of “Sugar Beets”. The locomotive and cars are a special version and are not available individually. Length over the buffers approximately 174 mm / 6-7/8″.
A building kit for a sugar beet loading installation is included with this train, extensively laser-cut from architectural quality cardstock. Dimensions of the finished model L 42 mm / 1-5/8″ x W 32 mm / 1-1/4″ x H 45 mm / 1-3/4″.

81773 can be lengthened with 82396.