Fleischmann 7570031: Electric locomotive 371 0 02-7, CD

Electric locomotive 371 002 of the Czech State Railways.

■ Model in a finely detailed design with many separately attached plug-in parts
■ Elaborate roof design with authentic pantographs
■ In digital operation with individually switchable headlights or taillights

In the 1980s, the CSD and the DR decided to procure two-system locomotives in order to cope with the constantly growing traffic and operational processes in cross-border traffic on the Berlin-Dresden-Prague route.

The expansion of the Decín-Prague connection to a maximum speed of 160 km/h made it necessary to upgrade some locomotives. From 1994, six Czech Rh 372 locomotives were adapted for faster international travel and have since operated under the class 371 – “Turbobastard”. The CD relocated the converted machines to the Prague depot.