Product Features and Details
Prototype: The Saxon locomotive manufacturers built a total of 163 rigid frame 5-coupled Eh2t tank locomotives for use as banking engines and heavy shunting service. The wheelsets on these engines could move laterally, which improved running on curves. They had a long boiler with three boiler shell rings, a nominal power output of 1170 hp, a boiler pressure of 12 bar (175 psi) and a maximum speed of 45 km/h. The DRG retained 139 locomotives, which were classified as construction series 94.20-21. After the Second World War the numbers were reduced and the remaining vehicles were dispersed in the Saxony region to Zwickau, Bautzen, Aue and Dressden. These locomotives were used with both passenger and freight trains. When sufficient diesel locomotives became more available in the mid 1960's, more and more of the BR 94's were taken out of service. The last of these engines were withdrawn in 1975 when the steep track from the lower Eibenstock station to the upper Eibenstock station had to make way for the Wolfsgrun reservoir.
In order to use the Saxon 94 on steep sloping sections, the DR decided to fit some of the locomotives with the back pressure brakes. Now the train could be decelerated to 20 kn/h without using the air brake. At the same time the new mechanism made a constant speed on dowhill sections possible. Many of the DR’s 94 engines were in shunting services when period III gave way to the age of computer numbering in period IV. The wooden extension to the coal box, which was originally added to many engines during the period when the engines were fired with brown coal, proved a great advantage for the loco operators. The increased coal storage capacity meant that the engine did not have to go so often to the coating plant and at that time water cranes could almost be taken for granted beside the station sidings.
Model: This finely detailed model also comes with...
*Additional free standing hand rails and pipes.
*Metal rods.
*Free view through the drivers cab.
*Moveable smokebox door.
*LED lighting system.
*Seperate decoder box.
*Powerful motor w/ flywheel.
