electric loco RH 1016 CAT ÖBB Sound-ready

Model: HO gauge DC. City Airport Train (Cat) design, use mostly in front of the CAT-trains Vienna Mitte Airport Vienna-Schwechat, Z21 driver’s level available.
Sound-ready models have a jumper plug for use on your analog system, a loudspeaker and a buffer capacitor. Subsequent digitization can therefore be carried out independently. You can find an instruction video on the Roco YouTube channel. If you want to drive digitally without sound, you can get started without sound after installing a cheap driving decoder. This gives you the greatest possible flexibility in the technical design of your models: You can immediately enjoy analogue driving fun and still have the choice of the extent to which you would like to digitize your model at a later date.

Prototype: The locomotives and cars for the City Airport Train trains that commute between Wien Mitte and the Vienna International Airport are designed in a special design. As a result of the introduction of ETCS at the ÖBB, there was a shortage of suitably equipped dual-frequency locomotives. Since the single-system version of the Taurus is sufficient for the CAT, the 1116 series locomotives were replaced by the 1016 014 and 036 at the end of 2012.