Product Features and Details
Prototype: Royal Prussian Railroad Administration (KPEV) class P8. The locomotive looks as the prototype did with a box-style tender.
Model: The locomotive comes with an mfx decoder and controlled high-efficiency propulsion with a can motor with a bell-shaped armature. 3 axles powered, 2 traction tires. The dual headlights are maintenance-free LED's that change over with the direction of travel. A 72270 smoke generator can be retrofitted into the locomotive. The headlights and the smoke generator contact will work in conventional operation and can be controlled digitally. The acceleration and braking delay can be controlled with a Control Unit or Märklin Systems. This model is finely constructed with numerous details typical of the era and a detailed engineer's cab. Reproductions of brake hoses, prototype couplers, and protective sleeves for the cylinder rods can be mounted on the locomotive. There is a close coupler on the tender and a guide mechanism on the coupling between the locomotive and tender. Length over the buffers 21.8 cm / 8-9/16".
Highlights:
* mfx decoder included.
* High-efficiency propulsion with a can motor with a bell-shaped armature.
* Model of the original prototype with a box-style tender.
* Numerous details from the original prototype typical of the era.
* Maintenance-free LED's for headlights.
One-time series in 2006 for the Märklin Exclusiv program.
100 Years of the P8 Mystique ? Railroad enthusiasts in Germany and Europe have considered the Prussian P8 as one of the most beautiful steam locomotives hands down for the last 100 years. The design for this locomotive quickly proved to be extremely good with a high level of power and remarkable reliability. The immense number of over 3,800 units built from 1906 to 1928 as well as their extraordinary versatility as motive power for passenger, fast passenger, and even for express train service led to remarkably wide use of this locomotive. Numerous locomotive builders took part in the production of this "jack-of-all-trades". The largest number by far of these locomotives built was delivered to the Royal Prussian Railroad Administration (KPEV), but other provincial railroads, foreign railroads, and towards the end of the period in which the P8 was built even the German State Railroad Company (DRG) took delivery of considerable numbers of the locomotive. This finely constructed model reproduces the locomotive as the prototype originally looked immediately after delivery with a box-style tender. At that time the locomotives did not have smoke deflectors on the boiler.
