Product Features and Details
Prototype: German State Railroad (DR/GDR) class 86 steam tank locomotive. Black basic paint scheme and red running gear. Version with 4 boiler appliances. Welded water tanks with long cutouts over the cylinders and rounded front edges. Triple headlights. Bell and turbo dynamo on the left, smoke box door with central locking and with a number board mounted below the middle of the smoke box door. Without inductive magnet. Coal bunker with an applied board. Pilot truck with spoked wheels. Trailing truck with solid wheels. Road number 86 1360-6. Stationed at RBD Cottbus, Zittau maintenance facility. The locomotive looks as did around 1973.
Model: The locomotive has a digital decoder and extensive light and sound functions. It also has controlled, high-efficiency propulsion with a flywheel in the boiler. 4 axles powered. Traction tires. The locomotive is constructed mostly of metal. The 72270 smoke unit can be installed in the locomotive. Triple headlights change over with the direction of travel. They and the smoke unit contact will work in conventional operation and can be controlled digitally. Dual red marker lights can be controlled separately in digital operation. Cab lighting can also be controlled digitally. Maintenance-free, warm white and red LEDs are used for the lighting. There are numerous separately applied metal grab irons and lines. The minimum radius for operation is 360 mm / 14-3/16“. Piston rod protective sleeves, brake hoses, and imitation prototype couplers are included separately. Length over the buffers 16.0 cm / 6-5/16”
Highlights:
- Completely new tooling • Intricate construction mostly of metal
- Prototype selection is the longer variant of the class 86
- Welded water tanks with rounded front edge
- Long cutout on the water tanks • Cab lighting can be controlled separately in digital operation
- Red marker lights can be controlled separately in digital operation
- 72270 smoke unit can be installed
- RailCom capable DCC/mfx digital decoder with a variety of light and sound functions • Buffer height conforms to the NEM
