Product Features and Details
Model: Precision model made of brass and stainless steel, high-performance motor, high-performance digital decoder with HDKM-16 sound module, wideband loudspeaker, Dynamic Smoke with dynamic steam whistle and independent cylinder steam, easy filling via chimney, servo-electronic reversing from forward to reverse, engine lighting, cab lighting, firebox lighting with simulated ember bed and servo driven opening firebox door, top light changing in direction of travel, warm light LED's, red train tail light switchable at tender (also simplified tail light) robust cardan drive with rolling and ball bearing mounted gear, drive and axles ball bearing mounted and spring loaded, wheel spoke assembly with prototypical elliptical spokes, compensating levers, spring buffers, movable water tank covers, movable driver's cab doors, detailed and multicolored cab with real wood floor, working sash locks and opening smoke box doors, sand dome that can be opened, movable lubrication pump drive, toolboxes can be opened, real crushed hard coal, finely reproduced lubrication lines, flexible and couplable brake hoses, screw couplers interchangeable with KM1 or claw couplers, prototypical paint scheme and lettering,
Prototype: When it comes to modeling European trains one of the more popular time periods to model is Era I. Era I is desirable because it deals with many of the private state railways from the years 1835 to 1925. The Bavarian State Railways is among the most exciting railways to model in this time period because they incorporated many unique and impressive steam locomotives which were painted in exquisite liveries. The DVI was built in 1880 by J. A. Maffei and Krauss in München, 53 locomotives were built between 1880 and 1894. The DVI was designed to be used on small local branch-lines hauling both local passenger service and light branch-line freight. In 1925 when the Deutsche Reichsbahn unified all the German State Railroads 26 Bavarian DVI's were re-classified as BR 98.75 of which five were equipped with water storage containers on the sides. The remaining locomotives operated in the Pfalz area of Germany in the cities of Speyer and Maximiliansau. They were decommissioned at the end of the 1920s and partially sold off as factory locomotives.
