Product Features and Details
Model: Precision-crafted from brass and stainless steel, this model locomotive features a high-performance motor and a digital decoder with an HDKM-16 sound module. It includes a wideband loudspeaker and Dynamic Smoke with a dynamic steam whistle and independent cylinder steam, easily refilled via the chimney. The model offers servo-electronic reversing from forward to reverse, engine lighting, cab lighting, firebox lighting with a simulated ember bed, and a servo-driven opening firebox door. The top light changes direction with travel, warm light LEDs illuminate the cab, and the red train tail light at the tender is switchable (including a simplified tail light option).
Drive System: The robust cardan drive is equipped with rolling and ball-bearing mounted gears. Drive and axles are also ball-bearing mounted and spring-loaded. The wheel spoke assembly features prototypical elliptical spokes, compensating levers, and spring buffers.
Detailed Features: This model boasts movable water tank covers, driver's cab doors, working sash locks, and opening smoke box doors. The sand dome and toolboxes can be opened, and the movable lubrication pump drive is a standout feature. The detailed cab is multicolored, with a real wood floor and finely reproduced lubrication lines.
Additional Details: The model includes flexible and couplable brake hoses and screw couplers that are interchangeable with KM1 or claw couplers. It features a prototypical paint scheme and lettering. Model features a highly polished boiler and is painted in slate grey and red wheels. The model also incorporates real crushed hard coal for added authenticity.
This comprehensive attention to detail ensures that this model is both a visual and operational masterpiece, perfect for enthusiasts and collectors alike.
Prototype: Among railway enthusiasts, the Bavarian S 2/6 is considered one of the most beautiful locomotives of all time. Its 2200mm drive wheel diameter exudes elegance, as does the bar frame, used for the first time in Germany, which provides an unobstructed view and imparts a sense of lightness to the chassis. The streamlined design of the dome, smokebox door, chimney, and cab accentuates the ambition of its engineers. The four-cylinder compound engine and the smoke tube superheater represented the cutting-edge technology of the time.
Maffei received the order for the S 2/6 in December 1905 and delivered the machine on May 3, 1906. Initially stationed in Munich, it set a speed record of 154.5 km/h in 1907, a record that remained unbroken until 29 years later by the BR 05. Its unique status as a one-off model made its operational deployment challenging, as other engines did not have comparable performance capabilities.
In 1910, the Bavarian S 2/6 was transferred to the Palatinate Railway and operated as an express locomotive between Ludwigshafen and Strasbourg. It was returned to Munich in 1922 and then moved to Augsburg in 1923. After its decommissioning, it was preserved as a museum piece and is now exhibited at the Nuremberg Transport Museum.
