■ Pioneering combination: box housing with high-speed bogies
■ With PluX22 interface and sound available for the first time
■ Perfectly matches the long distance train “Rheinpfeil”, items 74048, 74049 and 74256
■ With switchable headlight or tail light in digital mode
■ With set of etched signs included

All coaches planned for the “Rheinpfeil” train could be delivered by May 1963, however, the production finalization of the locomotives E 10 1308 to 1312 was delayed until October 1963. As was the case a year earlier with the “Rheingold”, five serial locomotives (E 10 250 to 254) were painted in beige/cobalt blue and temporarily received the existing “Henschel“ bogies to achieve the top speed of 160 km/h of the final E 10.12. In contrast to the “Rheingold”, however, these locomotives kept their original running numbers.