The Tank Locomotive Classic for the First Time in H0
Temptingly not only for everyone, who still does not have a model of this impressive all around tank locomotive. For this design masterpiece shows the locomotive as it looked after its test in June of 1958.
Prototype: German Federal Railroad (DB) class 75.4 (former Baden VI c) general-purpose steam tank locomotive. Version with triple headlights with DRB design electric lamps below and DB Reflex glass lamp above and riveted water tanks. Road number 75 1102. The locomotive looks as it did around 1958.
Article No. | 39753 |
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Gauge / Design type | H0 / 1:87 |
Era | III |
Kind | Steam Locomotives |
Model: The locomotive has an mfx+ digital decoder and extensive sound functions. It also has controlled high-efficiency propulsion with a flywheel in the boiler. 3 axles powered. Traction tires. The locomotive is constructed largely of metal. The locomotive has a factory-installed smoke unit. The triple headlights change over with the direction of travel. They and the built-in smoke unit will work in conventional operation and can be controlled digitally. Maintenance-free warm white LEDs are used for lighting. The locomotive has numerous separately applied metal grab irons and lines. The minimum radius for operation is 360 mm / 14-3/16". Protective piston rod sleeves and brake hoses are included. Length over the buffers 14.6 cm / 5-3/4".
A passenger car set to go with this locomotive is being offered exclusively for Insider members under item number 41324. This model can be found in a DC version in the Trix H0 assortment under item number 22793 exclusively for Trix Club members.
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The class 75.4 steam tank locomotive, item number 39753, is being produced in 2017 in a one-time series only for Insider members.
The class VIb (class 75.1-3) had turned out well on the many curving, steep routes in Baden. The Baden State Railroad therefore went back to the 2-6-2T wheel arrangement for further development of this type, but it equipped the units of the new class "Vic" with superheated steam running gear. The higher permissible axle load allowed a larger boiler in addition to the installation of a superheater. This once again increased the performance and the speed of the new locomotive. Effective with the second production run in 1915/16, the VIc units were equipped with a Knorr design feedwater heating system, effective with the third production run a steel firebox, and effective with the fourth production run a steel firebox with a new tube sheet. A permissible maximum speed of 90 km/h / 56 mph in both directions predestined these units for use in light express train service. With 10 cubic meters / 2,642 gallons of water and 4 metric tons of coal, they were able to master a correspondingly large radius of action. The first delivery was done in 1914 by the locomotive builder Maschinenbau-Gesellschaft Karlsruhe (MBG) / Machinery Construction Company Karlsruhe (MBG). By 1921, the MBG built the most locomotives, 14 units came however from Arnold Jung in Jungenthal. In 1918, 28 locomotives had to be surrendered as reparation payment, 15 to France, and 13 to Belgium (In 1923 units were sold to Luxembourg). The DRG took over the remaining 107 units as road numbers 75 401-494 (with gaps) and road numbers 75 1001-1023 as well as 1101-1120. The VIc units also soon made themselves useful outside of Baden: Ten locomotives were used experimentally in 1924 for suburban service on the Berlin S-Bahn, another 20 went to Mecklenburg, where effective 1925 the Berlin VIc units also went. The DB still had 66 operational units on their roster after World War II that were used mainly in Freiburg, Offenburg, Radolfzell, Singen, Waldshut, Karlsruhe, and Villingen. As the last VIc on the DB, road number 75 1118 did the great official departure run (Karlsruhe – Schönmünzach) of the last Baden steam locomotive used in regular service by the DB. It was still under steam for this purpose May 12-22, 1966. A day later, it was put into storage and on April 20, 1967, it was retired.
Control Unit | Mobile Station | Mobile Station 2 | Central Station 1/2 | Central
Station 3/2* Mobile Station 2** |
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Headlight(s) | |||||
Smoke generator | |||||
Steam locomotive op. sounds | |||||
Locomotive whistle | |||||
Direct control | |||||
Sound of squealing brakes off | |||||
Bell | |||||
Whistle for switching maneuver | |||||
Letting off Steam | |||||
Air Pump | |||||
Sound of coal being shoveled | |||||
Conductor's Whistle | |||||
Grate Shaken | |||||
Injectors | |||||
Switching maneuver | |||||
Coupler sounds | |||||
Water Pump | |||||
Sanding | |||||
Safety Valve | |||||
Generator Sounds | |||||
Light Function | |||||
Squeaking sounds from wheels | |||||
Replenishing fuel | |||||
Replenishing fuel | |||||
Replenishing fuel | |||||
Grade crossing | |||||
Cab chatter | |||||
Cab chatter | |||||
Surrounding sounds |
* New features of the Central Station 2 (Part No. 60213, 60214 or 60215) with the software update 4.2
** New features of the Mobile Station 2 (Part No. 60657/66955) with the Software Update 3.55