This unusual trio of Division Point brass D&RGW Krauss-Maffei ML-4000s is taking a trip around the club layout with a dynamometer car and freight consist in tow. Bringing up the rear is an OMI brass D&RGW caboose.
I installed Loksound 4 decoders in each locomotive. Also, each locomotive require nine LEDs to make up the lighting effects (two headlights, two mars lights, two class lights, two number board lights, and a reverse light). Engines nos. 4001 and 4003 plus the dynamometer car are part of a rare set made by Division point – only ten such sets were made. Locomotive no. 4002 was available separately and completes the prototypical trio.
The D&RGW experimented with these German-built powerhouses in the early 1960s, but found them prone to wheel slippage, making them unsuitable for operation on their mountainous routes. Originally splitting an order of six KMs with the Southern Pacific railroad in 1961, the D&RGW sold them back to the SP in 1964.
Video shot by Jonathan Warfield
