Product Features and Details
Model: The Roco 72573 E 10 Electric is a completely new redesign. Roco did a fantastic job on this new model. Model is finely detailed and has great running performance. The German E 10 electric locomotive was used all over Germany. The E10 pulled just about every German passenger car consist so making up a train is very easy.
- Metal chassis
- 5 pole skew-wound motor with flywheel
- 22-pin PLux DCC receptacle
- Factory installed sound decoder
- Cab illumination
- NEM 362 close coupler pockets
- LED red/white headlights alternating with direction of travel
Modellers Tip: As far as train compositions are concerned, this locomotive is a modeler’s dream: In their latter years, it and its sisters were used to pull accelerated trains, so a train consisting of Liliput L334556, L334536, L334537 and L334538 would be a plausible assignment. I would also recommend the Roco cars 44439/44/49/54 and Fleischmann offer a variety of Era III cars of the former DRG which could be used for such trains. Also, express trains with prewar running stock were pulled by this engine. In addition, Roco, Rivarossi, and Piko offer a variety of modern 26.4m cars which all fit behind this engine. Just make sure that they are labeled for Era IV or later. For those with smaller layouts, Fleischmann, Trix and Marklin offer slightly shortened versions (282mm instead of 303mm) of these cars. Also, if you built your layout before the longer cars were available and installed overhead catenary, the longer cars might collide with the masts, while the shorter ones will probably fit. Finally, 4-axle rebuilds of the 4yg class can show up too, either as complete trains or in combination with Silverfish commuters.
Prototype: In 1949, it became clear that the German railroad (Deutsche Bundesbahn) needed a new locomotive for express trains. Continued construction of the successful E 18 class was out of questions since the Swiss railroad BLS had shown that locomotives with four axles in two boogies could provide the same power, but smoother running. First a more powerful version of the E 44 was considered, but this E 46 project was abandoned when it became clear that a speed above 120km/h was needed. The new locomotive class was called the E 10, and five test locomotives were built which differed significantly to allow the testing of several innovations. All of them had a top-speed of 130km/h, and were used on heavy passenger trains. The final design of the E 10 combined the features of all test engines.
