Product Features and Details
Prototype: French State Railways (SNCF) class 150 X heavy freight locomotive. Former German class 44. 1 Prussian design (Cs) crew car for the 2nd locomotive crew. The units look as they did around 1946. Use: Heavy coal trains between Lorraine and Paris.
Model: Era III. The locomotive frame and boiler are die-cast metal. The locomotive has a built-in DCC/Selectrix decoder and a sound effects circuit. There is a 5-pole motor in the fire box. 5 axles powered. 4 traction tires. The headlights will work in conventional operation and can be controlled digitally. A smoke generator can be installed in the locomotive. The smoke generator contact, the steam locomotive operating sounds, different other operating sounds, and the acceleration and braking delay can be controlled digitally. The locomotive comes weathered. There is an adjustable close coupling between the locomotive and the tender. There is an NEM coupler pocket and a close coupler mechanism on the tender. Length over the buffers 260 mm / 10-1/4". The crew car has separately applied running boards and a brakeman's cab. Length over the buffers 135 mm / 5-5/16".
One-time series.
The French coal beds in Lorraine ensured the supply of energy for Paris for many years and particularly in the immediate postwar period. Very heavy coal trains went daily from the mines to the capital city. A second locomotive crew rode in a crew car specially set up for the purpose so that the relatively long route could be traversed as quickly as possible without long intermediate stops. The crew car for the second crew was a so-called "camping car" and the second crew could spell the first crew during the run. At the end of the Forties, the coal cars consisted of all kinds of different designs of two-axle gondolas.
This model can be found in an AC version in the Märklin H0 assortment under item no. 37887.
