Marklin 37915 - Express Locomotive with Tender BR 03.10 Insider

Gauge: H0    Era: III   
 
Prototype: German Federal Railroad (DB) class 03.10 express steam locomotive. Non-streamlined rebuilt version with a new, high performance boiler, Witte smoke deflectors, DB Reflex glass lamps, and a rebuilt tender with coal bunker hatches, and stoker equipment. The pilot truck has solid wheels like the prototype. Road no. 03 1001. The locomotive looks as it did around 1963.
 
Model: The locomotive has an mfx digital decoder and extensive sound functions. It also has controlled high-efficiency propulsion, with a bell-shaped armature and a flywheel, in the boiler. 3 axles powered. Traction tires. The locomotive and the tender are constructed chiefly of metal. A 7226 smoke generator can be installed in the locomotive. The triple 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 headlights are maintenance-free, warm white LEDs. There is a close coupling with a guide mechanism between the locomotive and tender. There is a close coupler with a guide mechanism and NEM coupler pocket on the tender. The hatches for the coal bunker can be opened and closed. Minimum radius for operation 360 mm / 14-3/16". Piston rod protector sleeves are included.

Length over the buffers 27.5 cm / 10-13/16".

• Completely new tooling.
• Particularly finely detailed metal construction.
• High-efficiency propulsion with a bell-shaped armature, in the boiler.
• A wide variety of operation and sound functions that can be controlled digitally.
• Express train passenger car set to go with the locomotive available under item no. 43969.

 
The 37915 express train steam locomotive is being produced in 2010 in a one-time series only for Insider members.
 
Of the 45 units of the former class 03.10 streamlined locomotive, which were still in existence after 1945, 26 were on the roster of the German Federal Railroad. By the mid-1950s, the condition of the boilers on these units was so bad that the DB decided to undertake an extensive rebuilding program with new boilers. The appearance of the locomotives changed considerably in the process and resembled the class 01.10 units that had also been equipped with new boilers. However, the rebuilding of the class 03.10 was not so successful technically as with the class 01.10, so that the former soon ended up in fast passenger train service. All of them were stationed in Hagen and were retired by 1966.
 
An express train passenger car set to go with this locomotive is offered under item no. Marklin 43969, also exclusively only for Insider members.
 
This model can be found in a DC version in the Trix H0 assortment under item no. 22179 exclusively for Trix Profi Club members.