Product Features and Details
The Model:
Super-detailling, -livery and -lettering. Inset windows. Interior details in driver's cap. Prototypical "daylight" between boiler and chassis. Fully operational, finely detailed Heusinger valve gear. Brake blocks between the wheels. Cast metal loco wheels and chassis. Motor with flywheel. With standard NEM 651 socket for installation of a decoder. Drive on all 8 driving wheels with 2 traction tyres. Double headlights at each end, co-ordinated with direction of travel. Slot-guide mechanism at each end and automatic PROFI-couplings with pre-uncoupling for true close coupling. Standard NEM 362 coupling socket. Epoch II.
Based on:
In 1928, the DRG took delivery of the first 7 locos of the class 86 from the Maschinenbau-Gesellschaft Karlsruhe. From that time on, deliveries of this famous loco class were shared by several manufacturers: Krupp, Borsig, Henschel, Linke-Hofman, Schichau, Esslingen, Schwartzkopff, Orenstein & Koppel, the Wiener Lokfabrik and the DWM Posen. The first engines were destined for use on the hilly routes of the Moselle and in Schwabia, where gradients of 25? had to be overcome.
