Description

Company No. L5

Diesel-electric double locomotive L5 of the Dutch State Railways.

– Finely detailed model with separately attached plug-in parts
– Frame panels with 8 sandboxes each
– Direction-dependent headlight with dimming lamps
– Driver’s cab lighting and engine room lighting switchable
– Sound functions switchable
– Large speaker with resonance body for a powerful sound
– Buffer capacitor

As one of a total of four double locomotives of the type D 311, this locomotive was put into service by the German Wehrmacht in 1942 as D 311.04. It was intended for use with the “Schwerer Gustav 2” gun. However, this gun was not completed, so the locomotive was used in the Calais area.
In September 1944, the locomotive ran aground on Dutch territory and was claimed as war booty by the Dutch State Railways. Attempts to get the locomotive running again failed due to missing parts. After mediation by a Haarlem scrap dealer, the locomotive returned to Germany, where it was put into service in 1950/51 as V 188 002 and was in operation in the Franconian region until 1972.