Marklin 37104 - Express Locomotive with Tender CBE 5

Gauge: H0    Era: III   
 
Prototype: German Federal Railroad (DB) class 01.10 express steam locomotive with a coal tender. Non-streamlined rebuilt version with a new, high performance boiler, Witte smoke deflectors, high sand domes, and silver boiler bands. Road no. 01 1001. The locomotive looks as it did around 1954/55.
 
Model: The locomotive has an mfx digital decoder and extensive sound functions. It also has controlled high-efficiency propulsion, in the boiler. 3 axles powered. Traction tires. The locomotive is constructed chiefly of metal. A 7226 smoke generator can be installed in the locomotive. The dual headlights change over with the direction of travel. They and the smoke generator, which can be installed in the locomotive, will work in conventional operation, and can be controlled digitally. The running gear lights can also be controlled digitally. There is a close coupler with an NEM coupler pocket on the tender. Piston rod protector sleeves are included.

Length over the buffers 28.1 cm / 11-1/16".
 

• "Carl Bellingrodt Edition 5".
• Suitable collector's display case included for each model in this edition.
• mfx decoder with sound functions.
• Running gear lights can be controlled digitally.

One-time edition in a limited series (Model 5 of 5, the last in the series).

 

In front of this in the lower part of the case is a glass display floor on which the model can be attractively presented. This allows a direct comparison between the Bellingrodt photograph of the prototype locomotive and the exquisite reproduction as a model. The glass front wall offers effective protection against dust.

In the second half of the Thirties the demand increased greatly for fast locomotives for the DRG's network of long distance and regular express trains. The existing class 01 and 03 two-cylinder standard design locomotives were only partially suitable for the planned express service. After the good results with the partially and fully streamlined experimental locomotives with road numbers 03 154 and 03 193, the DRG decided to have a three-cylinder streamlined Pacific with a maximum speed of 150 km/h / 94 mph developed out of the two-cylinder class 01. The production of 1,000 steam locomotives was then planned as part of a truly gigantic procurement program for 1939. Part of this program was the purchase of 205 units of the new 4-6-2 streamlined locomotive with three-cylinder running gear as the class 01.10. BMAG (formerly Schwartzkopff) in Berlin was given the contract to design and build the new locomotive. The prototype locomotive, road no. 01 1001, was ready in July of 1939; by the fall of 1940 another 54 units had followed it. World War II excluded further production. These units initially were assigned to Berlin, Bebra, Dresden, Erfurt, Frankfurt (Oder), Halle, Hamburg-Altona, Hannover, Leipzig, Munich, and Würzburg as well as Braunschweig, Breslau, and Kattowitz starting in 1942/43. The start of World War II not only led to the cancellation of additional class 01.10 unit, it also soon led to drastic cuts in express train service. This meant that another area of intended use was withdrawn for the 55 units of the new super Pacific delivered by September of 1940. In addition, the streamlining soon caused enormous problems (among other things, poor cooling) so that it had to be removed in the lower part of the running gear. After the war all 55 units were in the West Zone again, where they were put back into operation by July of 1950 (the exception being road no. 01 1067, retired on July 7, 1948). They were put back into operation without the streamlining however. All of the locomotives were equipped from the end of 1953 to the end of 1956 with new, welded high-performance boilers with combustion chambers after the original boilers exhibited material fatigue. From 1956 to 1958, 34 units were converted to main firing with oil, whereby these locomotives became the most powerful express train steam locomotives on the DB (with the exception of the class 10). From 1968 on the remaining units were designated as the class 011; the oil-fired locomotives ran as the class 012. After being assigned to Bebra, Hagen-Eckesey, Offenburg, Kassel, Osnabrück, and Hamburg-Altona, the remaining units were gradually gathered together starting in 1967 in Rheine (Westphalia). There they pulled passenger trains until May 31, 1975 on the main line to Norddeich Mole. Ten units of the class 01.10 remain preserved in museums or as operational units. Road no. 01 1102 was overhauled in 1996 and made operational again. It has new streamlining to remind people of the original look of the locomotives. Road no. 01 1075 preserved in the Netherlands was converted back to coal firing. Road numbers 01 1066 (Ulm Railroad Enthusiasts) and 01 1100 (DB) represent the class as they last looked on the DB.
 
Suitable collector's display case made of wood and glass, on the back panel of the case a reproduction of a prototype photograph from the master.
 
 

 

      
 

Released in: New items brochure 2010