Marklin 39665 - Steam locomotive 66 002 (Insider 2025)

Prototype:Prototype: German Federal Railway (DB) class 66 passenger tank locomotive. Road number 66 002. The locomotive looked as it did in the mid-1960s. Located at the Gießen railway depot.

Highlights

• Completely new design.
• With buffer storage to bridge short periods of power outages.
• Comes standard with smoke generator and speed-dependent, dynamic smoke emission.
• Three-light headlights and two red tail lights change depending on the direction of travel.
• Driver’s cab lighting can be switched digitally.
• Particularly delicate metal construction.
• A multitude of attached details.
• Buffer height according to NEM.
• Games world digital decoder mfx+ with extensive light and sound functions.

Product description

Model: The locomotive has an mfx+ digital decoder and extensive sound functions. Controlled high-efficiency propulsion with a flywheel in the boiler. One axle powered. Two axles powered by coupling rods. Traction tires. The locomotive is constructed largely of metal. The locomotive has a factory-installed smoke generator with speed-dependent, dynamic smoke emission. The triple headlights and dual red taillights change over with the direction of travel, and work in conventional operation and can be controlled digitally. The cab lighting can also be controlled digitally. The lighting is maintenance-free, warm white and red LEDs. The locomotive has a buffer storage unit.

The minimum operating radius is 360 mm. Piston rod protection tubes, brake hoses, heating lines, and imitation screw couplers are included separately. 

The length over the buffers is approximately 17 cm.

The steam locomotive 66 002 will be produced in 2025 in a one-off series exclusively for Insider members.

Charlie's Tips

A matching car set will also be offered exclusively at Ajckids for Insider members in 2025 under item number Marklin 41329.

This model can be found in DC version in the Trix H0 range under item number 25660 exclusively for Trix Club members.

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Prototype information

The year was 1948. The railways, too, were slowly but steadily recovering from the immense war damage, which particularly affected the locomotive fleet. Although the diesel locomotive had long since begun its triumphant advance in the USA, German engineers at the time believed that steam traction would be unavoidable for the foreseeable future. Therefore, the "Expert Committee for Locomotives" established an extremely ambitious new construction program. A tank locomotive with the class designation 66 was to be built as a fast and powerful universal locomotive for main and branch lines. The new 66 was based on a design by the Henschel company in Kassel. It featured a power unit with three driving axles, a two-axle trailing bogie, and a leading axle. The relatively large driving wheel diameter of 1600 mm allowed a top speed of 100 km/h, and the indicated power was a whopping 1170 hp. The locomotive crew was also taken into account.

The Class 66 featured a fully enclosed cab, skylight windows, underfloor heating, and padded seats with backrests. However, the two prototypes were not delivered until 1955 – at a time when the young German Federal Railway had already decided to abandon steam traction. Therefore, no further orders were placed for series production, even though the prototypes more than fulfilled all expectations. They were used in Hesse around Frankfurt and Giessen, even including express trains. Both locomotives, however, were only able to demonstrate their performance for a little over a decade, and were laid up in 1967. Class 66 002, however, was preserved as a museum locomotive of the German Railway History Society and can be admired as a well-maintained exhibit in the Bochum-Dahlhausen Museum.

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