Product Features and Details
Prototype: German Federal Railroad (DB) class 001. 4-6-2 wheel arrangement, built starting in 1925 for the German State Railroad Company (DRG) as a standard design locomotive. Version with the older style boiler. Use: Express and fast passenger trains.
Model: Era IV. The locomotive has a digital connector. There is a close coupling between the locomotive and tender. The frames for the locomotive and the tender are constructed of die-cast metal; the body for the tender is also constructed of die-cast metal. The smoke box door can be opened. This locomotive is an Era IV version. The motor and gear drive are in the tender. The motor has a flywheel. 4 axles powered. There is an NEM coupler pocket on the back of the tender. Length over the buffers 150 mm / 5-7/8".
Express locomotives were always the stars among steam locomotives by virtue of their power, elegance, and speed. The class 01 heavy express locomotive was probably for all intents and purposes the personification of the German standard design locomotive. It was reliable motive power for impressive express trains as well as for mundane passenger trains. By 1938, a total of 231 class 01 locomotives had been produced by different German builders. In addition, there were also 10 class 02 locomotives rebuilt between 1937 and 1942 to the class 01. After World War II, 165 of the class 01 locomotives remained in the western occupation zone and 70 in the Soviet zone, of which several had to be retired due to extensive damage. Starting in the Fifties, both German railroads rebuilt their locomotives several times and adapted them to new uses by making use of technical progress. In West Germany, the large Wagner smoke deflectors were replaced by the small Witte versions, the compressor and feed water pump wandered on the DB locomotives from the niche on the smoke box to the center of the boiler, and the front skirting between the buffer beam and the running boards was removed on numerous units. The class 01 was taken out of service on the DB in the middle of the Seventies; on the DR they lasted until the Eighties.
An accessory parts kit with brakeman's steps, rail guards, and a front coupler with a pocket is included.
