Trix 22895 steam locomotive BR 038, DB, Ep. IV

Trix 22895 steam locomotive BR 038, DB, Ep. IV Product Details

Description

038 382 (until 1968: 38 2383) was the second-to-last "Mohican" of the once numerous class 38.10-40 (ex Prussian P 8) steam locomotives at DB and had to retire from service on April 29, 1974. A long boiler crack had put her out of action shortly before the deadline in July. Together with her two sisters (038 771 and 772), she had been based at Rottweil depot since the beginning of July 1973 and hauled passenger trains in the Black Forest and Neckar Valley. After its retirement, it found a worthy place in the German Steam Locomotive Museum in Neuenmarkt-Wirsberg, now again under its old number 38 2383. The P 8 had developed into one of the most successful Prussian locomotive designs ever. By 1923, over 3,500 of the almost 1,200 hp locomotives had been built for German railroad administrations alone, and almost all German locomotive factories were involved in their construction. Just over 1,200 locomotives made their way to the Bundesbahn after the Second World War. It was not until the end of the 1950s that the stocks began to thin out noticeably.

Features:

• Prototypical shape changes for the design as an Era IV version
• Particularly delicate metal construction
• Switchable driver's cab lighting
• Flickering fire can be switched
• With digital decoder and numerous operating and sound functions
• Track / design: Trix H0
• Era: IV
• Regulated high-efficiency propulsion with a flywheel in the boiler
• Three axles powered
• Traction tires
• Locomotive and tender largely made of metal
• Triple headlights that change over with the direction of travel, conventional operation, can be controlled digitally
• Conventional smoke unit contact in operation, digitally switchable
• Equipped for smoke unit 72270
• Fire flickering digitally switchable
• The cab lighting can also be switched digitally
• Lighting with maintenance-free warm white light-emitting diodes (LED)
• Minimum passable radius: 360 mm
• Piston rod protection tubes, brake hoses and screw couplings are included
• Length over buffers: approx. 21.3 cm