Product Features and Details
Model: 2 piece set with steam locomotive class S 3/6 and “Prinzregenten” coach of the Royal Bavarian State Railways. Version S 3/6 3618 is painted with the very popular blue colour. Finely detailed model with perfectly matching saloon coach and delicately printed interior furnishing. AC Model with digital decoder and digitally switchable sound functions.
With the steam locomotive of the S 3/6 series, an extremely powerful and state-of-the-art designed locomotive rolled on the tracks until 1931. The locomotives reached, even when they needed to handle a towable mass of more than 400 tonnes, which at that time meant to haul about 10 express train passenger coaches, a top speed of about 135 km / h. The "high-axled" locomotives with their superheated steam four cylinder compound running gears had a very smooth running. The fuel consumption was also kept low, so after only a few years of operation it was still possible to manage even longer distances of more than 800 kilometers. The 3618 was considered a parade locomotive at that time and so it is quite likely, that the "Blue Beauty" even had a saloon wagon for the royal family.
