Division Point Krauss-Maffei ML4000

By | Sep 26, 2024
5D3_1738-Edit This locomotive trio is a long way from home. 5D3_1738-Edit The Southern Pacific railroad was looking for more powerful motive power to compete with arch rival railroad Union Pacific. The SP looked across the pond to German locomotive builder Krauss-Maffei and their powerful ML4000 series of locomotives. The SPĀ ended up splitting an order of six KM’s with the Denver and Rio Grande railroad and in late 1961, the D&RGW took delivery of three ML4000s 5D3_1743-Edit5D3_1744-Edit Division Point issued these fine looking brass Krauss-Maffei units in HO scale in 2008. 5D3_1741-Edit Detail is superb. The models come equipped for DC operation with factory installed lighting. The real KM’s were powerful, with two 16 cylinder Maybach diesel engines each, but were prone to wheel slippage through the mountain trackage of the D&RGW. After three years, the D&RGW gave up on the KM’s and sold them to the Southern Pacific railroad. I expect these HO units will fare much better on the mountains of our club layout. They’ll get converted to DCC operation with a trio of Loksound v4.0 sound decoders. 5D3_1750-Edit5D3_1751-Edit Division Point produced only 10 three-item sets that included loco #4001, 4003 and the dynamometer car. 5D3_1754-Edit And a nice caboose completes the package. This one is from Overland Models and sports the unique four stripe paint. All DCC’d up and rarin’ to go! [wordbay]division point ho[/wordbay]

Originally posted 2015-06-23 14:33:51.

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