Roco 7310066 H0 - M62 diesel locomotive, PTKiGK, ep.V-VI, DCC with sound

Model of Diesel locomotive type M62 in the painting of the Railway Transport and Stone Management Company.

Made of plastic and metal parts model locomotive for electric railroads in H0 scale that is 1/87. It is a miniature Diesel locomotive M62. The paint job depicts the locomotive used by the Railway Transport and Stone Management Company during epochs V and VI falling between 1990 and today.

• part number - 7310066
• power supply - direct current DC
• lighting - front and rear white and red variable plus digitally controlled cabin lighting
• length - 202 mm
• minimum turning radius - 358 mm
• decoder socket - 22-pin
• factory-installed decoder with sound function

The model painted and ready to drive. It is designed for a digital control system. It has a 22-pin Plux 22 digital decoder socket and a factory-installed digital decoder including sound function.

Electric railroads - digital or analog control?

A definite advantage of digital systems is the ability to run multiple locomotives independently on a single track. With an analog control system, two locomotives placed on the same track will run at the same time. This is because analog control is based on increasing and decreasing track current voltage. Separate running of two or more electric railroads requires connecting several independently powered tracks, which is complicated and requires good planning and a lot of space. In digital sets, the voltage of current in the rails is constant, and locomotives are controlled by sending the appropriate signals to them from the controller.

Roco is an Austrian manufacturer of H0 scale model railroads with high quality and great detail.

The company has been on the market since 1960, and began producing its first railroad models in 1967. Roco is recognized as a company that cares a lot about the fidelity of its models to the originals and does not skimp on the details of wagons and locomotives. ROCO also has a range of tracks concentrated in the Geo-Line (ballasted tracks with stable construction and simple geometry for beginners and advanced) and Line (both ballasted and unballasted, for advanced and beginners, which, with a relatively small number of components, guarantee full flexibility in building the railroad line of your dreams) series. ROCO also has a digital control system, which, with its advanced features and support of a phone app, allows simple management and monitoring of even the most complex railroad mockup. All ROCO models are manufactured with performance reliability and robustness of construction in mind, while being as close to the original as possible.