Product Features and Details
MODEL DETAILS
Boiler, driver's cab and tender as finely detailed
Plastic components made
Openwork bar frame and spoked wheels made of die-cast zinc
Sound decoder installed or prepared for installation
Driver's cab illuminated
Period-appropriate lighting
Standard shaft at the rear, guided by the backdrop
Close coupling between locomotive and tender
True-to-original replica of the back wall of the standing kettle
Individually scheduled climbs and steps
Drive in the tender for optimal driving characteristics
Single axle bearing in metal
True-to-scale wheelbase
Filigree driving and coupling rods made of metal
Fire flickering (Digital EXTRA version)
Engine lighting (Digital EXTRA version)
Note on the minimum radius of the BR 01: The BR 01 steam locomotive models are technically suitable for operation with a minimum radius of R 360 mm. For optimal driving characteristics, we recommend use from R 420 mm.
INFORMATION ABOUT THE ROLE MODEL
It was only quite late, in 1936/37, that the Rbd Köln was assigned locomotives 01 192 – 198 for traffic on the Rhine. 01 193 was accepted on December 21, 1936 and assigned to the Deutzerfeld depot. The locomotives are also responsible for covering the legendary “Rheingold Express”, which they take over from the BR 18.5. The Offenburg depot has been transporting it with 01 along the Upper Rhine to Basel since 1930. In Cologne, 01 193 also survived the war and arrived in Hamm in 1948. Here it runs with numerous sister locomotives on the east-west axis Aachen - Hanover until 1959 and is then transferred to Paderborn. In 1960 it received a new high-performance boiler in Nied. After only five years it was passed on to Rheine in 1964, and from Paderborn it turned to Kassel and north to Bremen, Emden and Oldenburg. For use in the Netherlands, the Rheiner 01 often have a 2'2T30 tender. The increasing allocation of 01.10 makes the 01 superfluous, 001 193-2 is already retired on June 21, 1968. Gustav Ahrens GmbH dismantled it in Essen-Rellinghausen in September and October 1969.
