Prototype: Royal Bavarian State Railroad (K.Bay.Sts.B.) class PtL 2/2 "Glaskasten" / "Glass Box" tank locomotive. 0-4-0T design, built starting in 1909. 1 type C passenger car, 3rd class, built in 1910, 1 type BC passenger car, 2nd/3rd class, built in 1910, 1 type PwPostL mail/baggage car, built in 1914. 1 tank car with a brakeman's cab, privately owned car. Based in Regensburg, Germany.
Model: The locomotive has a jackshaft, a permanently installed DCC-Selectrix decoder with automatic system and analog recognition. The locomotive body is constructed of die-cast metal in a green K.Bay.Sts.B. paint scheme. 2 axles powered. The cars have close coupler mechanisms. Total length over the buffers 265 mm / 10-7/16".
If you go down the Danube, you'll discover a Greek marble temple about ten kilometers / 6 miles beyond. Leo von Klenze was inspired by the Parthenon in Athens when he was given the contract to build a hall of fame. This building was given the name "Walhalla" from the home of the German gods. King Ludwig was able to proclaim on October 18, 18742 twenty-six years after the start of the work: "May Walhalla be conducive to strengthening and increasing German virtue! May all Germans, regardless of their heritage, always feel that they have a common Father Land." The busts of 126 important personalities stand in this hall that is worth seeing. Most of them come from German language areas, among them Johann Sebastian Bach and Ludwig van Beethoven, Otto von Guericke, and Johann Gregor Mendel, Johannes Gutenberg and Jakob Fugger, August II of Saxony and Friedrich II of Prussia, Immanuel Kant and Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz as well as Sophie Scholl and Ulrich von Hutten. In addition, 64 memorial tablets evoke great personalities such as Hildegard von Bingen and Albertus Magnus, Roswitha von Gandersheim and Walther von der Vogelweide, Heinrich III and Hermann the Cheruscan as well as Peter Henlein and cathedral builder Gerhard. Some visitors will surely miss many prominent people such as Friedrich List. This does not harm the standing however of this unusual memorial. A complete list of the personalities honored in Walhalla can be found on the Internet at http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Walhalla
