Product Features and Details
Steam Locomotive BR 75 227, DR, Ep III
Model: Housing, chassis and wheels of die cast metal, 5-pole, skew wound motor with flywheel, traction tires, digital interface for pluggable 21-pin decoder, prepared for speaker installation, NEM coupler 362, three-light LED head light with the direction of travel, rec. Minimum radius 360mm, length over buffers 210 mm
Prototype: The Badische VIb was the first German tank locomotive with the wheel arrangement 1'C1 '. It was developed by Maffei for the Grand Ducal Baden State Railways to improve the operation including on the Höllentalbahn. 1900 were still found to be saturated steam locomotives into service 15 copies. To 1908 was followed by a further eight series with about 100 machines. A striking feature of these locomotives was the connecting pipe between the two steam domes. With its 540 hp and a top speed of 80 km / h, it was too weak for the service on main lines and soon became gradually from the stronger, and faster, and also by about 1000 mm long successor, the series VI c, displaced. But despite all this, or perhaps because these machines gradually spread all over Germany. Of the 131 locomotives were taken over 122 of the Deutsche Reichsbahn and classified in the 751-3 series. In 1921 and again in 1923 for a further 42 locomotives were delivered. In the inventory of the German Federal Railroad reached 117 vehicles. In 1962 the last Vertrerterin this machine was retired with 75 299 eventually. The German Reichsbahn in the GDR territory Headquartered seven machines were decommissioned until 1965.
