Class 01.10 Steam Locomotive, New Design

Prototype

German Federal Railroad (DB) class 01.10 express steam locomotive with a new high-performance boiler design and a type 2’3 T38 tender. Black basic paint scheme with red running gear. Version without streamlined fairing. The model features silver boiler bands. Dual headlights. Witte smoke deflectors and an inductive magnet on one side. Loco road number 01 1059. The loco looks as it did after the boiler conversion around 1955/56.

Highlights

• Largely new tooling based on the older design steam loco 01.10.
• Especially intricate metal construction of one of the most renowned German steam locos of the German Federal Railroad.
• Numerous separately applied details.
• It has a factory-installed smoke generator and speed-dependent, dynamic smoke exhaust.
• The cab lights, firebox flickering, and running gear lights can be controlled digitally.
• RailCom-enabled DCC/mfx digital decoder with extensive light and sound functions.
• The buffer height conforms to NEM specifications.
• With buffer capacitor to bridge short unpowered sections of track.

Model

With digital decoder and extensive sound functions. It also has a controlled high-performance motor with a flywheel, mounted in the boiler. Three axles powered. Traction tires. The locomotive and tender are made mostly of metal. Factory-fitted smoke generator with speed-dependent, dynamic smoke exhaust. Dual headlights change over with the direction of travel, work conventionally, and can be controlled digitally. The cab lights, firebox flickering, and running gear lights can be controlled separately in digital operation. Maintenance-free warm-white and red LEDs are used for the lighting. A buffer capacitor is fitted. Close coupling with a guide mechanism between the loco and tender. Tender has a close coupling with a guide mechanism and NEM pocket. The buffer heights on the loco and tender conform to NEM specifications. The minimum radius for operation is 360 mm / 14-3/16″. Protective piston sleeves and brake hoses are supplied.
Length over buffers 27.7 cm / 10-7/8″.

The class 01.10 with a new boiler design is the ideal steam locomotive for the D 74 “Hamburg Altona-Basel SBB” express train on the Frankfurt-Basel section of the route, which can be recreated using the cars from items 23651, 23623, and 23626.

An AC version of this model is available in the Märklin H0 range as item 39105.