Product Features and Details
Prototype:
Class 52 heavy freight steam locomotive with rigid-frame tender K4 T30 of the German Federal Railroad (DB). Black/red livery. Witte smoke deflectors. Leading wheelset with solid wheels.
Locomotive road number 52 6884.
Operating condition circa 1951.
Model:
With digital decoder and extensive sound functions. Controlled high-efficiency propulsion with flywheel in the boiler. 5 axles powered. Traction tires. Locomotive and rigid-frame tender largely made of metal. Equipped for smoke generator 7226. Directional two-light headlights and retrofittable smoke generator operate conventionally; digitally switchable. Cab lighting is also digitally switchable. Lighting with maintenance-free warm white LEDs.
With energy storage device. Close coupling with kinematic mechanism between locomotive and tender. Kinematic close coupling with NEM coupler pocket at the rear of the tender and at the front of the locomotive. Buffer height according to NEM standards. Minimum radius for operation: 360 mm. Piston rod protection tubes, brake hoses, and screw coupling imitations are included. Length over buffers: 26.4 cm.
Highlights
- Newly designed rigid-frame tender K4 T30.
- True to the prototype, the tender has no bogies.
- Wheelsets mounted laterally in the tender.
- Buffer height of locomotive and tender according to NEM standards.
- RailCom-compatible DCC/mfx digital decoder with a wide range of operating and sound functions.
- Delicate metal chassis with largely unobstructed views between the chassis and boiler.
- High-performance drive with flywheel in the boiler.
- With energy storage to bridge short power outages.
