Fleischmann 490501 - Set Colliery Train Miners Luck

Set Colliery Train Miners Luck

The Model:
1 Tank Locomotive "Bergmannsglück" (Miner's luck) of the Royal Colliery and Harbour Lines, with digital decoder socket, with Locomotive crew, 1 low sided truck of the Royal Colliery and Harbour Lines, loaded with tipper trucks, 1 open goods truck with brakeman's cab of the K.P.E.V., loaded with pit props, 1 four axled stake wagon of the Royal Colliery and Harbour Lines, loaded with cable pulleys and cable drums, 1 brakeman,1 open goods wagon for animal transport of the K.P.E.V., loaded with 6 horses, 1 crew coach of the Royal Colliery and Harbour Lines, with miners. The rolling stock is fitted with close-coupling mechanism and PROFI-couplings for true close-coupling operation. Goods wagons with low-profile flanges.

Based on:
In the first decades of the 20th century, the railways and coal mines within the Ruhr industrial area were inseparably bound together. Every large pit possessed their own track connection, leading to "miner's luck". These connections to the main lines of the state railway belonged to the Royal Colliery and Harbour Lines, a union of several pits in the area around Gladbeck/Bottrop/Gelsenkirchen. FLEISCHMANN now brings you a typical colliery train from this period. The steam engine "miner's luck" pulls five trucks: an open goods truck of the K.P.E.V., loaded with wooden pit props, a goods wagon with typical tipper trucks used to transport coal in the yards and a four axled flat truck with "fish-belly" carrier with pulley and cable drums, an open cattle truck of the K.P.E.V., bringing the pit ponies to their place of work and a combined crew and equipment van typical of colliery lines.