Marklin B VI K.Bay.Sts.B. | Gauge H0 - Article No. 37974 Steam Locomotive with a Tender.

Prototype: Royal Bavarian State Railroad (K.Bay.Sts.B.) class B VI old-timer locomotive. Version for peat firing. "Klopstock" name plate. Model: The locomotive comes with a digital decoder, controlled high-efficiency propulsion, and a sound effects generator with many function. Powerful can motor with a bell-shaped armature, in the locomotive's boiler. 2 axles powered. 2 traction tires. Detailed running gear with exterior frame and Stephenson valve gear. The headlights will work in conventional operation and can be controlled digitally. Steam locomotive running sound effects, which vary with the speed of the locomotive, a whistle, as well as the acceleration and braking delay can be controlled digitally with a Control Unit or Märklin Systems. Additional operating sound effects can be controlled digitally with Märklin Systems. The tender has a raised body and hatches that can be opened. Close coupling between the locomotive and tender. Brake hoses and prototype couplers can be installed on the buffer beam. Length over the buffers 16.3 cm / 6-7/16". The locomotive comes packaged in a decorative wooden box. Item no. 45094 is the appropriate peat supply car and can be used as an additional tender. Between 1863 and 1871, Maffei supplied the Bavarian State Railways with 107 locomotives with a single-axle pilot truck and 2 coupled driving axles. Technically, the B VI was only slightly different than its predecessor class, the B V. The diameter of the driving wheels increased from 1,462 mm / 57-9/16" to 1,616 mm / 63-5/8", and service weight increased to 31 metric tons. Like its predecessor, the B VI could be fired with coal as well as with peat. After the installation of replacement boilers, the permissible steam pressure was increased from 8 to 10 bar or from 116 to 145 pounds per square inch. The B VI primarily hauled passenger trains in regular service. Faster locomotives soon pushed it down to lower levels of passenger train service. The railroad started retiring class B VI locomotives in 1895 and continued to withdraw them from service into the 1920s. Two units active in maintenance service made it into the provisional numbering system of the German State Railroad as road numbers 34 7461 and 7362, and were retired shortly after the new numbering system went into effect in 1925. One locomotive, road no. 316, made railroad history. Christened "Tristan", this locomotive hauled the court train of Ludwig II, when his majesty went on trips. Control Unit Mobile Station Mobile Station 2 Central Station 1/2 Central Station 3/2* Mobile Station 2** Headlight(s) Steam locomotive op. sounds Locomotive whistle Direct control Sound of coal being shoveled Air pump / compressor Horn blast 1 Sound of squealing brakes off Operating sounds Letting off steam / air Grate Shaken