Product Features and Details
The Model:
Super-detailling, -livery and -lettering. Interior details in driver's cab. Prototypical "daylight" between boiler and chassis. Fully operational, finely detailed Heusinger valve gear. Brake blocks between the wheels. Cast metal chassis. Motor with flywheel. Drive in tender onto 4 wheels with 2 traction tyres. Close-coupling between loco and tender. Double headlights at each end, co-ordinated with direction of travel on tender. 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:
The Prussian G 8.1, Class 55.25-56 was a very important class of loco on the former Deutsche Reichsbahn. Goods trains and heavy shunting duties were their main domain. Even the Bundesbahn couldn't do without the G8's for a long time. The prototype of our model comes from the later style of construction (from 1915) typified by the feed valves situated between the raised sandbox and the steam dome.
