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The Bread-and-Butter Locomotive in Saxony
It was the period of the Golden Twenties when the German State Railroad newly founded in 1920 started its great leap forward in motive power technology. The new class 86 was especially successful, a 70 metric ton and 1,000 horsepower design with eight driving wheels and a pilot truck and a trailing truck. With a maximum speed of 70 or 80 km/h / 44 or 50 mph and a high level of pulling power, they could also be used in passenger and local freight service on main lines. By 1943, 774 units of the class 86 had been delivered to the German State Railroad. After the end of World War II there were over 164 usable class 86 locomotives on the German State Railroad of the GDR and most of them called Saxony home. They were able to prove their capabilities impressively there on the partially difficult routes in the Mittelgebirge Region. Even limited stop fast passenger trains and express trains were hauled with these nimble and powerful tank locomotives. This was also the case at the East Saxon maintenance facility in Zittau, where for example the limited stop fast passenger train E 681 from Berlin to Zittau was in the regular schedule of the class 86. Starting in 1968, 16 of the class 86 replaced the old Baden tank locomotives at the Zittau maintenance facility. One of the star locomotives in Zittau was road number 86 1360-6, which sparkled in the truest sense of the word due to its perfect condition. Especially interesting for a model railroader is the fact that the Zittau class 86 units were seen pulling old provincial railroad cars as well as what was then very modern "Reko" or "Converted" cars. The era of the class 86 in Zittau ran out in 1976. Its successor was represented by modern class V 100 diesel locomotives and class 52/52.80 wartime locomotives.

Model: The locomotive has an mfx+ digital decoder and extensive light and sound functions. It also has controlled, high-efficiency propulsion with a flywheel in the boiler. 4 axles powered. Traction tires. The locomotive is constructed mostly of metal. The 72270 smoke unit can be installed in the locomotive. Triple headlights change over with the direction of travel. They and the smoke unit contact will work in conventional operation and can be controlled digitally. Dual red marker lights can be controlled separately in digital operation. Cab lighting can also be controlled digitally. Maintenance-free, warm white and red LEDs are used for the lighting. There are numerous separately applied metal grab irons and lines. The minimum radius for operation is 360 mm / 14-3/16". Piston rod protective sleeves, brake hoses, and imitation prototype couplers are included separately. Length over the buffers 16.0 cm / 6-5/16".