diesel loco L45H 87-0032-0 CFF Wassertalbahn Bemo-1020902

Model: HOe gauge DC. Diesel locomotive L45H 87-0032-0 of the Romanian CFF Wassertalbahn. Chassis made of die-cast, five-pole motor, drive and power consumption across all four axles, LED headlights depending on the direction of travel, attached handlebars, attached wind deflectors, attached windshield wipers, etched steps and fan wheel cover, re-trackable to H0m (exchange wheel sets optionally available), minimum radius: 300mm, vehicle weight: 132 gr.

Prototype: The Wassertalbahn was completed in 1932 as an industrial railway for transporting wood to a sawmill in Viseu de Sus in the border area between Romania and the Ukraine. The operation on the forest railway in the Carpathians with 760 mm gauge is divided between diesel locomotive-hauled production trains and mainly steam locomotive-driven tourist trains.
The railway uses, among other things, four bogie diesel locomotives of the type L45H built by Faur in the colors yellow, red, blue and green.
The L45H diesel-hydraulic bogie locomotive, built in large numbers by the vehicle and machine manufacturer FAUR in Bucharest (Romania) between 1967 and 1985, ran on many Eastern European railways and was also used on industrial and works railways. Today, the 450 hp and 10.25 m long narrow-gauge locomotives for 750-1000 mm gauge are still in use in Romania (class 87), Poland (Lxd2), Slovakia, the Czech Republic and Hungary (Mk45). In the meantime, some have also made their way to Germany as popular service locomotives for the Sächsische Dampfeisenbahn Gesellschaft mbH (SDG – formerly BVO Bahn GmbH), for the Ybbstalbahn mountain route of the ÖGLB in Austria and even on the Mediterranean island of Corsica, where some of them were remotorized.