17 Class Steam Loco - AC 3 Rail HO MARKLIN - 37197
Article No. 37197 Class 17 Steam Locomotive
Prototype: German State Railroad Company (DRG) class 17.0 steam locomotive.
Former Prussian class S 10. Museum locomotive of the Berlin Transportation and Technology Museum.
Lettering and version as road number 17 008 as it looked in Era II around 1932.
Highlights
Reworked tooling.
New propulsion concept.
Reworked locomotive and tender connection.
Open cab with an open view through it.
Cab lighting can be controlled digitally.
Oncoming train lights can be controlled digitally.
Firebox flickering can be controlled digitally.
Built-in smoke unit.
Figures of an engineer and a fireman included.
Booklet about the history of the locomotive included.
Product description Model: The locomotive has an mfx+ digital decoder and extensive sound functions.
It also has high-efficiency propulsion with a flywheel, in the boiler. 3 axles powered.
Traction tires.
The locomotive and coal tender are constructed mostly of metal.
A smoke unit is built into the locomotive.
The dual headlights change over with the direction of travel.
They and the smoke unit will work in conventional operation and can be controlled digitally.
The cab lighting, firebox flickering, and oncoming train light are each digitally controlled separately. Maintenance-free, warm white and red LEDs are used for the lighting.
There is a close coupling with a guide mechanism between the locomotive and tender.
There is a close coupler with a guide mechanism and an NEM pocket on the rear of the tender.
The minimum radius for operation is 360 mm / 14-3/16".
Protective piston rod sleeves are included.
Figures of an engineer and a fireman are included for installation in the cab.
A booklet gives information about the history of the locomotive.
Length over the buffers approximately 24.0 cm / 9-7/16".
Fifth and last locomotive in the 5-part series of museum locomotives.
This model can be found in a DC version in the Trix H0 assortment under item number 25170.
One-time series.
Prototype information
Historical Background The purchasing policy for steam locomotives formed a large gap on the Prussian State Railways at the end of the 19th / beginning of the 20th century. On December 31, 1940, the roster still hosted road numbers 17 039, 097, 102, 107, and 120. After the end of World War II, there were probably no more S 10 locomotives running in Germany. In the West Zones, road numbers 17 039 and 102 were retired on September 20, 1948. In the area of the DR in the GDR (East Germany) road number 17 107 remained stored in the Berlin District and was disposed of on February 15, 1951. Road number 17 120 found itself on the Polish State Railroad after the end of the war, was given a new road number there of Pk1-24 and was finally retired on February 28, 1952. Road number 17 097 went to Soviet Russia as war reparations, probably remained stored on the Lithuanian standard gauge network, and was retired in February of 1951. Road Number 17 008 Road number 17 008 can be viewed in the German Technology Museum in Berlin as the sole preserved unit of the class 17.0. Road number 17 008 was delivered on February 3, 1912 by BMAG (Berlin Mechanical Engineering, Inc., formerly Schwartzkopff) with builder number 4760 to the Breslau District as road number S 10 1008 Bsl. There this locomotive with nine other units hauled mostly express trains in the direction of Upper Silesia. Around 1924/25, this unit, now designated as road number 17 008 went to the Mainz District, where it was based at Mainz and was used chiefly on the Rhine routes.
Eventually, it was given a place of honor on March 11 of the anniversary year of 1935 (100 Years of German Railroading) in the Berlin Transportation and Engineering Museum in the former Berlin-Hamburg Line Station, even on electrically driven rollers. After World War II, the museum was not open to the public for a long time due to the special status of railroading in West Berlin. This was because the German State Railroad (DR) of the GDR (East Germany) also ran railroad operations in the West Sectors of Berlin and refused any access to all trackage by outsiders, except of course the stations and their platforms. It was not until 1984 with the takeover of the S-Bahn by the West Berlin Senate that ownership of the shutdown museum was acquired by the West. Sometime later, road number 17 008 was woken from its "Sleeping Beauty sleep" and transported on a depressed floor semi rig to the Neukölln Station and then moved on its own wheels across the Ringbahn or Ring Line to the Anhalt Freight Station. Since October of 1987, it has enriched the German Technology Museum (until 1996 the Museum for Transportation and Technology) on the grounds of the former maintenance facility for the Berlin Anhalt Station, also here ready for demonstration on rollers. Thomas Estler
Digital Functions
CONTROL UNIT MOBILE STATION MOBILE STATION 2 CENTRAL STATION 1/2 CENTRAL STATION 3/2*
MOBILE STATION 2**
Headlight(s)
Smoke generator contact
Steam locomotive op. sounds
Locomotive whistle
Light(s) for Oncoming Train
Engineer’s cab lighting
Flickering Light in Fire Box
Whistle for switching maneuver
Direct control
Sound of squealing brakes off
Air Pump
Letting off Steam
Sound of coal being shoveled
Tipping grate
Water Pump
Injectors
Sanding
Replenishing fuel
Replenishing fuel
Replenishing fuel
"Switcher Double ""A"" Light"
Switching maneuver
Flickering Light in Fire Box
Rail Joints
Safety Valve
* New features of the Central Station 2 (Part No. 60213, 60214 or 60215) with the software update 4.2
** New features of the Mobile Station 2 (Part No. 60657/66955) with the Software Update 3.55
