Product Features and Details
Prototype: The progressive electrification of the main lines in the 1930's resulted in a lack of powerful electric express train locomotives. The DRG therefore ordered a locomotive know as BR E04 from the AEG with a 1"Co1" axle layout. By 1935 a total of 23 locomotives of this type had been delivered and were stationed at the train depots in Leipzig, Magdeburg, Halle, Nurnberg, Bamberg and Treuchtlingen. After the end of WWII, of the total of 23 engines, six remained with the DB. The remaining 17 were taken over by the DR. Many of these locomotives suffered damage during the war and were unusable.
By 1947 the DB had brought all the locomotives back into service, operating from their home depot in Nuremberg. A year later they were transferred to the Munich Main Station where they remained until they were again re-housed in Osnabruck in 1968. The last of the locomotives, re-classified as BR 104, were taken out of service on Oct. 22, 1981. The DR had renovated a total of 13 locomotives by 1957. They were stationed in the Leipzig West, Magdeburg and Halle depots and were used from there on all the electrified lines for passenger and express train services. On April 28, 1976 the last of the series was retired from active service.
Model: This finely detailed model comes w/ the following features...
*Open working frames.
*Free standing roof cables.
*Fixed pantograph operation.
*Open-worked spoked wheels.
*Free standing lamps.
*Finest pantograph SBS10 & SBS39.
*Driver's cabin replica
*Decoder box.
*Option of switching to cantenary operation.