Product Features and Details
Model Details:
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Extra mounted steps
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True-to-scale axle box cover
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Close-coupling
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True-to-scale underframe
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Extra mounted metal handrails
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Fully functionning drive train
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Tender body, boiler and chassis in die-cast zinc
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Epoch-typical light
From 1915 onwards, Maffei started manufacturing G 4/5 H class locomotives. This locomotive was the largest, most powerful and most modern German locomotive with this wheel arrangement. The G 4/5 H corresponded to the Maffei construction principles. It had a slanting four-cylinder engine combined with a filigree underframe. The boiler, which operated on the basis of the relatively new superheated steam process that was developed by Schmitt, was extremely efficient. Thanks to the balanced four-cylinder engine, a maximum speed of 60 km/h could easily be attained despite the compact 1,270 mm size of the driver wheels. The locomotive had considerable tractive power and was able to pull 1,000 t on an 11 % incline at 18 km/h.
