The bread and butter locomotive in SaxonyIt was the time of the Golden Twenties when the 1920 newly founded German State Railways began to make a big leap forward, particularly in vehicle technology. The new 86 series was particularly successful, with a 70-ton-heavy and 1000-hp design with four drive axles and one forward and one trailing axle each. With a maximum speed of 70 or 80 km/h and a high traction force, they could also be used in passenger and local goods trains on main railways. Until 1943, 774 copies of the series 86 were delivered to the Federal Railways. After the end of the war, the GDR had 164 ready-to-use locomotives from the 86 series, which were mainly at home in Saxony. They were able to demonstrate their abilities impressively on the sometimes difficult stretches in th...
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Passenger train steam engine with tender series 24 of the German Federal Railways (DB). Locomotive with Wagner wind deflector plates. Locomotive operating number 24 044. Operating condition around 1957.This text is machine translated.
Powerful pressure in the boilerIn 1936, the Berlin-based Maschinenbau AG Schwartzkopf delivered the first fast-moving goods train locomotives of the 41 series. These machines proved to be universal locomotives for medium duty trains. Between 1936 and...
The most beautiful among the beautiful One queen for the model railwayIt was until the late sixties a real icon on DB tracks: The massive 18 323 express train steam locomotive, which has the ability to become a star in the Maerklin program as a perfectly...