Unimog 424-series road/rail vehicle
Prototype
Operating company/organisation
BR, Railtrack, London Transport, private contractor companies.
Many others worldwide.
Manufacturer
Unimog (Mercedes-Benz)
Years of operation
1976+
Model
Manufacturer
Roco
Construction
Assembled. Mainly plastic.
Motive power
The Roco model is not motorised, but can be.
Tenshodo. An article about motorising HO Unimogs appeared in a 1991 edition of Scale Model Trains.
This used a Tenshodo WB31 motor bogie (check Branchlines).
As this method of motorisation requires the virtual destruction of the original model, you may prefer to use one
of the many models of the road-only Unimog vehicle (available from Roco, Wiking and others), because these are
usually cheaper (but then you don't get the rail wheels).
Faulhaber. The motorising kit number 28086 by sb-Modellbau
costs €89.80 (OCT2006). An article about fitting this kit to the Roco Unimog is in Satellite
25.
Catalogue numbers and prices