Product Features and Details
Model: The Marklin 88106 is a very high quality model. Model is all metal and comes equipped with a 5-pole motor. All driving axles are powered. Length over the buffers 116 mm / 4-9/16".
Model Features:
- New tooling.
- Locomotive body constructed of metal.
- Functional lights
- Crisp Lettering and excellent pain finish
One-time series for the Märklin "Exclusiv" program.
Prototype: Since the success of the Diesel high speed trains like the Flying Hamburger in the middle of the 1930s, locomotive industry worked on faster steam locomotives. After speed tests with a streamlined DRG Class 03 Borsig produced three engines:
05 001 in 1935, streamlined,
05 002 in 1935, streamlined, world speed record in 1936
05 003 in 1937, cab forward streamlined.
The locomotives did regular service in FD express passenger trains, e.g. FD 23 from Hamburg to Berlin. The design speed was 175 km/h (109 mph). In 1944, the streamline plates were removed. 05 003 had been rebuilt and lost the cab forward design. The three locomotives of the 05 class are considered by many to be the highpoint of German steam locomotive engineering. With their 2300mm (90 in) high driving wheels and a design speed of 175 km/h (110 mph), their domain were fast, but relatively light trains. A three cylinder steam engine provided rapid acceleration and a smooth ride. 05 002 reached a top speed of 125 mph on May 11, 1936. While 05 001/002 were conventional streamlined designs, the 05 003 incorporated many innovations. The driver compartment was located in the front, offering the engineer the same view as in the modern electrics. Its outer shape even resembled the E 18 electric locomotive. Instead of black coal, it used brown coal dust. Unfortunately, the system did not work as well as hoped for mostly due to the long distance between the tender and the firebox which was located in the front. Therefore, the locomotive was converted into a conventional steam engine in 1944 with the large Wagner steam deflectors. Together with her sisters, she underwent a further conversion in the 1950’s. All three were retired in 1957.
World high speed records
05 001 and 05 002 were mainly used for test runs from 1935 to 1936. Most of these runs were made on complete journeys between Hamburg and Berlin. On June 7, 1935 the 05 002 made a top speed of 191.7 km/h (119.1 mph) near Berlin. The same engine made six more runs with more than 177 km/h (110 mph) with trains up to 254 t weight. On May 11, 1936 it set the world speed record for steam locomotives after reaching 200.4 km/h (124.5 mph) on the track between Hamburg and Berlin hauling a 197 t train. The engine power was more than 2,535 kW (3,400 ihp). This record was broken two years later by the British LNER Class A4 4468 Mallard engine.
On May 30, 1936 the 05 002 set an unbroken start stop speed record for steam locomotives: During the return run from a 190 km/h test Berlin-Hamburg it did the ~113 kilometres (70.1 miles) from Wittenberge to a signal stop before Berlin-Spandau in 48 min 32 s, meaning 139.4 km/h (86.66 mph) average between start and stop.
Post-War history
05 001 in the Nuremberg Transport Museum
After World War II, the three engines came to the engine shop in Hamm, Westfalia Since there were only three specimens of the 05, DB thought to scrap them. But then the engines were sent to Krauss-Maffei be restored. 05 003 went into regular service in 1950, the other two in 1951. Boiler pressure was reduced to 16 bar (1600 kPa or 230 lbf/in²), hence the engines lost some of their old power. All three locomotives were used to haul express trains until 1958.
Mostly the 05 hauled the FD (long distance express) trains "Hanseat" and "Domspatz" on the run Hamburg - Cologne - Frankfurt. The regular top speed of the trains was 140 km/h. On this 703 km run the 05 operated trains did the longest run with steam traction in the DB network. July 1958 the 05 were replaced by diesel-hydraulic locomotives class V200. The BRR 05 001 went to the Verkehrsmuseum Nürnberg where it can be seen streamlined with its original red livery. The other two locomotives were scrapped in 1960.
