Product Description
Manufacturer: Revell
Product Code: Rev02158
Description: Set Fast Train Loco BR01 & BR02
Scale: 1:87
BR01 – Model Length: 275 mm
BR02 – Model Length: 266 mm
Skill Level: 4
Requires assembly: Glue and paint sold separately.
Please note: Rails Not Included
Set Fast Train Loco BR01 & BR02
The class 01 was built starting in 1925 as a completely new generation of locomotives for the then German Reichsbahn.
BR01:
With the introduction of the new UIC numbering scheme for rolling stock in 1968 the steam engines of the class BR 01.10 were classified in the class 011 and the class 012. The class 011 were the coal burning steam engines and the class 012 were the oil burning steam engines.
In 1970 the steam engines 011 and 012 were moved to the Bw Rheine, they replaced the old steam engines of class 003 and 001. When two years later the remaining locomotives from Hamburg-Altona also moved to Rheine, was Rheine the last and most legendary place for these express train locomotives. Most of the express and D-trains between Rheine and Emden were pulled by steam engines 011 and 012 until 31 May 1975. On this day the last D-train, D 714 was pulled by a steam engine, the 012 081-6.
The last coal burning steam engine, the 011 062-7 was set aside in 1973. In 1971 this steam engine had made a couple of trips for the NVBS. The 012 075-8 came in March 1976 to Rotterdam, hauled by a 23 023.
BR02:
The German DRG Class 02 (Baureihe 02 or BR 02) engines were standard (Einheitslokomotiven) express train locomotives with the Deutsche Reichsbahn-Gesellschaft. Number 02 001 was the first Einheitsdampflokomotive in the DRG to be completed.
In procuring a standard express train steam locomotive, the Deutsche Reichsbahn carried out a comparison between a superheated two-cylinder type (the DRG Class 01) and a four-cylinder compound locomotive (the Class 02). Ten examples of each type were built from 1925, and the Class 02 vehicles were given operating numbers 02 001 – 02 010. The first eight engines were manufactured in 1925 by the firm of Henschel, two more were built in 1926 by Maffei.
Because the Class 02 steam engines were badly designed, the compound engine could only produce a high level of power at speeds of over 70 km/h. In addition, below 1000 PSi its steam consumption was higher than that of the Class 01.
Compared with the Class 01s, these engines had a complicated, and therefore maintenance-intensive, drive; as a result no more were ordered. From 1937 to 1942 the vehicles were successively converted to two-cylinder operation and regrouped as Class 01s with the new numbers 01 011 and 01 233 – 01 241.
The first eight engines were equipped with 2’2′ T 30 tenders; the other two with 2’2 T 32 tenders. Later on, the second tender was coupled to all of the first eight engines as well.
- Detailed model with filigree engravings
- Clear parts
- Boiler replica in the cab
- Filigree brake linkage
- Separately set ladders, boilers and pumps
- Decals for 4 versions
