Product Features and Details
Model Details:
- Boiler, locomotive chassis and tender box in die-cast zinc
- Finest metal spoked wheels
- True-to-epoch lighting, multipart lamp housing
- Illuminated driver’s cab
- Spring buffers
- Detailed boiler rear wall
- Short coupling between locomotive and tender
- Perfectly replicated back boilerplate
- Filigree rods and coupling rods
- Precise printing
- Pipes and extra mounted parts in low material thickness
- Digital version with glowing of the ash container
- Movable valve gear inside the frame
- Closed front end, exchangeable part and coupler pocket enclosed
In 1950, the Deutsche Bundesbahn still had approx. 100 locos of the G71 in their inventory, of which about half were operational. In addition to railway depots (Bw) in the Ruhr area (including Duisburg, Essen, Hamm and Oberhausen), the Bw Minden and Kaiserslautern also had several operational machines in their inventories. They were mostly used for shunting and transfer service. Since there was a sufficient amount of newer and more powerful machines for these services, the final units of the series were eliminated from the inventory by the mid-50s.
