Product Features and Details
Model: Fleischmann’s new BR03.1 has extensive detailing with an attractive red livery. Locomotive has a fully operational, finely detailed Heusinger valve gear and can motor with flywheel. Model also has standard NEM 651 Digital DCC sound decoder, four powered axles in tender, close-coupling between loco and tender, prototypical double headlights with triple lights on tender end, co-ordinated with direction of travel and NEM close coupler pockets.
Prototype: In the 1930's the Deutsche Reichsbahn experimented heavily with streamlining express locomotives. Streamlining made the locomotives faster and more efficient. The BR03 express locomotives were fitted with a many variations of streamlining, from fully skirted versions to partial streamlining. The 03.10’s were built by Borsig/Berlin-Hennigsdorf factory in 1934. They were equipped with a two-cylinder drive system and a 2`3T32 type tender. The 03.10’s were painted in various liveries but the red versions were among the most attractive.
