Steam Locomotive with Tender
Prototype: German State Railroad Company (DRG) class 05 express locomotive, 4-6-4 design. Version with full streamlined fairing. Built in 1935. Use: Long distance service.
Most Important Facts
| Article No. | 22108 |
|---|---|
| Gauge / Design type | Trix H0 / |
| Era | II |
| Kind | Steam Locomotives |
Highlights
- New tooling
- Metal locomotive and tender body
- Motor with bell-shaped armature
- Digital connector
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Product description
Model: Era II,
diecast metal frame, boiler, and tender body.
Locomotive comes with an 8-pin NEM digital connector. High-efficiency motor with flywheel
in the firebox. 3 axles powered. 2 traction tires.
Closed side streamlined fairing without additional cutouts. This locomotive can negotiate
curves with a minimum radius of 415 mm / 16-5/16 . Headlights are maintenance-free
bright LED s. Locomotive can be retrofitted with a smoke generator. Permanent close coupling between the locomotive and tender. The hatches on the tender can be opened.
NEM coupler pocket.
Length over the buffers 304 mm / 11-15/16 .This model can be found in an AC version in the Märklin assortment under item no. 37050.
Spare parts for our articles can be found here in our spare parts search.
The 22108 locomotive is being produced in a one-time series only for members of the Trix Profi Club. Delivery is scheduled for the end of 2004.
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Publications
- New Items 2004 - Main Catalog 2004 / 2005
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Prototype information
The DRG covered only a small, exclusive market segment for long distance passenger service with the express passenger service provided by the diesel powered rail car trains. Locomotive-hauled trains continued to form the backbone of passenger service. They offered far more capacity, more room, comfort, and service, for example: dining and sleeping cars. And yet more speed was required for these trains too. The locomotive builders developed suggestions for a steam locomotive that was intended have a speed of 175 km/h or 109 mph. The DRG decided on a threecylinder locomotive with a 4-6-4 wheel arrangement and with coal firing. Its dimensions were immense: The driving wheels had a diameter of 2.30 meters or 90-9/16 inches, the boiler tubes were 7 meters or 275-9/16 inches long, and the power output reached 2,360 pounds per square inch. Between Hamburg and Berlin the 05 002 surpassed the world speed record for steam locomotives with 200.4 km/h or 125.25 mph in a test run on May 11, 1936, record that still stands today. The fact that t his value was never surpassed proves the limits of this technology. The immense moving masses of cylinders, drive rods and side rods did not permit higher speeds. The fireman was hard pressed to keep the boiler steamed up. The two units built in 1935 have a very futuristic look with their red streamlining. As a status symbol of the DRG, they were used in express passenger service and bore for a while even the Olympic rings.
