- Description
| Brand | |
| Lenz | |
| product type | |
| Dieseltriebzug | |
| technical & model details | |
| running number | 98 213 |
| interior lighting | ja |
| interior details | ja |
| scale | 1:45 |
| couplers | Lenz digital coupling |
| Length | 310 |
| light | 2-light peak signal, changing with direction of travel |
| gauge | O gauge |
| power supply | Direct current |
| Age notice | not suitable under 14 years. |
| digital & sound | |
| factory fitted digital | |
| country | |
| Germany | DB |
| era (continental) | |
| era III | |
Prototype: It was called the rescuer of the branch line, the red hum or simply the Uerdinger rail bus, because most of the VT 98 were built in the Uerdinger wagon factory. They were driven by two 150 hp Büssing underfloor motors, the same motor as in the Berlin double-decker buses. ZF Friedrichshafen AG contributed the six-speed gearbox. The VT 98 railcar was also accompanied by the VB 98 trailer car (some with luggage compartment) and the VS 98 control car. But shorter two-car units VT+VS and longer units with up to six cars were also used.
At the end of the 1980s, the VT 98 (or 798, as it was called from 1968) was gradually replaced by the 628 series, which in turn now has more modern successors such as the Talent.
But even before the development of this digital control system, Lenz had already set milestones for the model railway enthusiast, for example with the "REPA Lok-Aus" and the legendary "Teichmann controller". Lenz is constantly working on making the occupation with model railways more interesting, more varied, but also easier: USP ensures uninterrupted data transmission into the decoder even when power is interrupted from the track, ABC ensures pinpoint stops in front of signals, RailCom delivers information from the locomotive back to the digital system.
Lenz's entry into 0 gauge has not only been well received by "veteran" zero gauge enthusiasts, but has also inspired numerous model railway enthusiasts to enter/with this great gauge. Lenz is continuously expanding its programme here as well, but still attaches great importance to the greatest possible faithfulness to the prototype, exceptional technology and high quality standards.