Product Features and Details
Prototype: German State Railroad (DR – East Germany) road number 01 0505-6 (class 01.5). 4-6-2 wheel arrangement, built starting in 1925 for the German State Railroad Company, rebuilt by the DR starting in 1961. The locomotive looks as it did during its time in Wittenberg around 1975. Use: Important passenger trains and Inter-Zone service.
Model: The locomotive has a new 14-pin digital connector. The drive is in the tender and the motor has a flywheel. 4 axles powered. Traction tires. There is a close couplilng between the locomotive and tender. Length over the buffers 150 mm / 6".
Thirty five units of the class 01, the express locomotive in the German State Railroad's standard design program, underwent extensive rebuilding and modernization starting in 1961 on the German State Railroad of East Germany. As the class 01.5 these locomotives represented what was technically doable in steam locomotive construction. Several units remain preserved as museum locomotives.
Retrofit kit for brakeman's steps, rail guards, and front coupler with a pocket included.
