Express Locomotive with a Tender.
Prototype: German Federal Railroad (DB) class 18.4. 4-6-2 wheel arrangement. Built starting in 1908 as the Royal Bavarian State Railways class S 3/6. Use: Heavy express trains.
Most Important Facts
| Article No. | 12234 |
|---|---|
| Gauge / Design type | Minitrix / |
| Era | III |
| Kind | Steam Locomotives |
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Highlights
- Prototypical detail changes.
- Metal construction.
- Motor with bell-shaped armature in the boiler.
- Digital connector.
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Product description
Model: Era III.
The locomotive comes with the new, impressive Trix technology:
• Locomotive and tender made of die-cast metal.
• Motor with bell-shaped armature, with flywheel.
• Digital connector in tender.
• Close coupling between locomotive and tender.
Finely detailed model, 3 axles powered, 2 traction tires.
Length over the buffers 134 mm / 5-1/4".Spare parts for our articles can be found here in our spare parts search.
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Publications
- New Items 2003 - Main Catalog 2003 / 2004 - Main Catalog 2004 / 2005 - Main Catalog 2006
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Prototype information
The class S 3/6 locomotives purchased by the Royal Bavarian State Railroad starting in 1908 were one of the most successful and beautiful designs to originate from Bavarian locomotive building. Under their new designation as the class 18.4 in the German State Railroad period, they formed the backbone of the extra-regional express passenger service at the point of renowned long distance trains such as the Rheingold or the Orient Express. Thanks to high levels of performance with simultaneously low fuel consumption, additional units of the class 18.5 were ordered up to 1931. The last units of this locomotive family were not retired until 1966. Several museum locomotives remain preserved, among them an operational unit at the Bavarian Railroad Museum in Nördlingen.
