BR-18 steam locomotive TrainOCCRE

Product description : BR-18 steam locomotive

You will discover a gem of railway modeling with our kit models which will allow you to spend pleasant moments and relive the era when these trains circulated on the roads.

The BR 18.4 was created in the workshops JA Maffei of Munich. The first example was delivered on July 16, 1908. The axles of this locomotive have a “Pacific” type configuration with large diameter wheels. It was the largest locomotive built to that date by this manufacturer. It is considered today as "the most beautiful locomotive on the German railways".

The S 3/6 had excellent performance on long distance journeys. In 1951, it pulled a 150 t train 820 km between Hamburg and Munich, stopping only to stock up on water. The letter S refers to long-distance trains "Schnellzuglokomotiven" and the designation 3/6 represents the number of driving axles in relation to the total number of axles.

This locomotive was mainly used in Bavaria with trains long distance, but also hauled such famous trains as the Orient Express and the Rheingold, the Ostend-Vienna Express or the Paris-Karlsbad-Prague Express. Over time, this locomotive was the subject of multiple variations which mainly affected the machinist's cabin, the boiler and the engine mechanisms.

You will see that little by little you will be able to reproduce a model of train including all the railway details of the original model. We invite you to let yourself be enchanted and to create creative leisure spaces in which this wonderful train model will give you a lot of pleasure.

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