Product Features and Details
PluX22 As a more powerful evolution of the widely used class 170 steam loco of the
Imperial Royal Austrian State Railways, the class 270 superheated steam loco
motive was introduced at the end of the First World War. The machines proved
to be so capable that, after the war, additional orders were placed in Austria as
well as in the states that succeeded the monarchy. The BBÖ ended up opera
ting a total of 100 locomotives, which were then designated the class 56.34-35
following the annexation of Austria by Germany in 1938. During its service life
with the DRB, the loco was used as a “jack-of-all-trades.”
Prototype: German National Railway (DRB) class 56.34-35 freight steam
locomotive with a tender, former class 270 of the Imperial Royal Austrian
State Railways (kkStB) and the Austrian Federal Railways (BBÖ). The loco
looks as it did after the BBÖ was incorporated into the German National
Railway starting in 1938
Highlights:
• Completely new tooling.
• Detailed design made largely of metal.
• Motor in the locomotive.
• Finely detailed design with numerous separately applied parts.
• Prototypical and detailed implementation of
all defining details on the loco, including the
characteristic Kobel smokestack, the large
Austrian lamps, as well as the classic kkStB cab.
• Factory-installed smoke generator and speed-dependent, dynamic smoke exhaust.
• Cab lighting, firebox flickering, and running gear lights can be controlled digitally.
• The buffer height conforms to NEM specifications.
• With buffer capacitor to bridge short unpowered sections of track.
• Length over the buffers approximately 20 cm / 7-7/8“
