Product Features and Details
Prototype: German Federal Railroad (DB) class 58 freight locomotive. Former Prussian G 12.
Model: All driving axles powered. Dark wheel tread and valve gear. Length over buffers 85 mm / 3-11/32".
With the G 12 the Prussian State Railways were able to produce a predecessor of standard locomotives. While railways from other countries had also purchased earlier designs; at this time however 1916 there was military pressure to standardize the rolling stock of national railways. In 1917 the first locomotive was on the tracks. It had a three-cylinder drive gear. This made it clearly distinct from older Prussian designs. The bar girder frame and the broad Belpaire rear boiler design in no way corresponded to pure Prussian theory. In order to achieve the required maximum axle load of 16 t, the G 12 was given a five-x coupled drive gear. The State Railways of Baden, Prussia, Saxony, and Württemberg placed the G 12 in service. Approximately 1500 units were built on this design. The last of these locomotives were in service in the DDR until 1976.
