Product Features and Details
Prototype: DRG Group Administration Bavaria class R 3/3, 0-6-0T wheel arrangement, built starting in 1921.
Model: Era IIa. The locomotive comes with a can motor with a flywheel and 3 axles are powered. It has a factory-installed DCC/Selectrix decoder with automatic system and analog recognition. The triple headlights can be controlled digitally. The body is die-cast metal with a new road number. Length over the buffers 60 mm / 2-3/8".
Shortly after the end of World War I there was a striking shortage of small, powerful tank locomotives on the DRG. The Group Administration Bavaria therefore ordered a total of 90 of these locomotives. In the process the railroad went back to the proven class D II, which had been passed up by growing requirements for greater power. The experience and improvements gathered in daily operation finally led to the new class R 3/3, which was clearly improved in its power compared to the D II. The total of 90 units delivered turned out to be a stroke of luck ? several of the class R 3/3 locomotives were still in service well into the 1960s.
