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This V5 shunter has been called Swedish state railways "most angular shunter locomotive". SJ bought 40pcs of it from german Henschel in the 1970:s. The original colorscheme is orange + darkblue, so the brandnew darkblue train windows from set 60007 came very handy. I built totally 3pcs - two in orange/darkblue and one in the actually used blue/red/black colorscheme. The blue locomotive and one of the orange are technically identical, with a vertical PF L-motor + battery box and IR-receiver to compose a fully autonome loco. All are 8wide and they feature a 3-axle design (similar to the prototype) where the mid axle is floating in a technic element (a new innovative usage to my point-of-view ), and train magnets are attached upside-down in rotatable beams to allow it to follow rolling stock in curves and points. The 2nd orange V5 may look optically similar but this is a "slave" locomotive without propulsion. It means it have to work in pair with the other orange V5. Instead of propulsion it features a linear actuator attached to the magnet which is driven by a PF M-motor + PP3 battery and IR-receiver. This allows easy remote control decoupling of rolling stock !! See picture below from underneath, also I'll try to upload a short video showing decoupling on my Flickr account. Hope you enjoy and feel free to comment.