VR D3 Class Locomotive

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From 1929 through to 1951 the Victorian Railways (VR) progressively rebuilt 96 Dd class locomotives into the D3 class of engine. These engines featured a new K class design boiler with superheating and they were fitted with headlights, marker and cab lights.

They were numbered from 606 to 699 and suitable for passenger, mixed and goods traffic and remained in traffic until 1974.

Engine 639 was used almost exclusively to haul the Commissioners Inspection trains across the network. Later 658 was interchanged and renumbered 639, as the original 639 had suffered serious cracks in its frames.

In the mid 1940s several D3 class locomotives were fitted with electric headlights, some retained their earlier low sided Flare Top Tender. 

SDS Models have undertaken the production of two dedicated, and era specific, running numbers from this period. The engine units are based upon the Phoenix Reproductions model mated with our own low sided tender.

Model Features:
- Highly detailed Ready-to-Run HO gauge model 
- Diecast boiler, frame and footplate
- Genuine Kadee scale head whisker coupler (Tender)
- Separately applied boiler details
- Working LED lights
- All models come standard with an MTC 21 pin motherboard 
- 18" Minimum Radius
- DCC version with LokSound V5 decoder