Roco 72109 - Steam locomotive 209.43

Ideal to haul express and passenger trains Free-standing pipes and many separately applied plug-in parts Full metal wheels with low wheel flanges

Product description

The private Austrian Südbahn Gesellschaft procured this shapely steam locomotive from 1910 onwards to haul the increasingly heavy express trains on the mainline Vienna–Trieste. From 1910 to 1914, the locomotive factory StEG Vienna, the locomotive factory Wiener Neustadt and the Wiener locomotive factory Floridsdorf delivered 44 locomotives for use in the Austrian railway network of the Südbahn. After the nationalisation of the Austrian part of the Südbahn in 1923, 17 locomotives were transferred to the Austrian Federal Railways (then designated BBÖ) as series 209, because number 109 was already occupied.