Product Features and Details
The Model: Fleischmann BR41 is an impressive locomotive it features full interior cab details, prototypical "daylight" between boiler and chassis, fully operational, finely detailed Heusinger valve gear, brake shoes between the wheels and finely spoked cast metal wheels. Model is equipped with a powerful motor with flywheel, Digital DCC sound decoder and metal chassis. Drive in tender on 4 wheels, of which all have traction tires. Model also has Triple LED-headlights at each end, tender end changing with direction of travel, close-coupling between loco and tender, slot-guide mechanism at each end with automatic PROFI-couplings for true close-coupling and pre-uncoupling. NEM 362 coupling socket.
Prototype: The German State Railroad's series of standard design locomotives also included a fast Mikado design freight locomotive. In 1936 the Berlin firm of Schwartzkopff delivered the first units of the class 41. This locomotive proved its abilities pulling more than freight trains. It turned out that the railroad had a true general-purpose locomotive for medium heavy trains. After 1945 the DB used its 216 units in general-purpose service pulling passenger and freight trains. Many were also trapped behind the iron curtain and we used by the DDR railroad.
