Product Features and Details
Prototype: GDR German State Railroad Company (DR/GDR) class 42 heavy steam freight locomotive, with a type 2´2´T30 tub-style tender. Post-production series locomotive from 1948. Black/red basic paint scheme. Smoke stack without an add-on. With Witte standard version smoke deflectors. Pilot truck with solid wheels. Both lower headlights on the front of the locomotive built into the cylinder block. With smokebox access step below the smokebox door. Smokebox door with a number board. Locomotive road number 42 001. The locomotive looks as it did around 1951.
Model: The locomotive has a digital decoder and extensive sound functions. It also has controlled high-efficiency propulsion with a flywheel, mounted in the boiler. 5 axles powered. Traction tires. The locomotive and the tub-style tender are constructed mostly of metal. A 7226 smoke unit can be installed in the locomotive. The double headlights change over with the direction of travel. They and the smoke unit that can be installed in the locomotive will work in conventional operation and can be controlled digitally. The cab lighting can be controlled in digital operation. Maintenance-free warm white LEDs are used for the lighting. There is a close coupling with a guide mechanism between the locomotive and tender. The rear of the tender and the front of the locomotive have close couplers with NEM pockets and guide mechanisms. The minimum radius for operation is 360 mm / 14-3/16". Protective piston sleeves, brake hoses, and imitation prototype couplers are included. Length over the buffers 26.4 cm / 10-3/8".
Highlights:
- Completely new tooling.
- DR/GDR version as road number 42 001.
- Especially finely detailed metal construction.
- Digital decoder and a variety of operation and sound functions included.
- Partially open bar frame with mostly open view between the frame and the boiler.
- High-efficiency propulsion with a flywheel, mounted in the boiler.
