Ånglok klass 141.R 1244 SNCF "Märklin Surprise 2024"

Ånglok klass 141.R 1244 SNCF "Märklin Surprise 2024", loket har mfx+ digitaldekoder, epok IV, längd över buffertar 27,9 cm.

Prototype: Class 141.R steam locomotive with an oil tender.
Road number 1244 for mixed service, as it looked on the French State Railways (SNCF).
The locomotive looks as it currently does in operational condition based at the Verein Mikado 1244 / Mikado
Association 1244 in Brugg in Switzerland.

Model: The locomotive has an mfx+ digital decoder and extensive sound functions.
It also has controlled high-efficiency propulsion with a flywheel, mounted in the boiler.
Four axles powered, three of them using side rods.
Traction tires. The locomotive and tender are constructed mostly of metal.
There is a factory-installed smoke generator. The headlights and dual red marker lights change over with the direction of travel,
will work in conventional operation, and can be controlled digitally.
These lights can be switched to a red marker light. The cab lighting, running gear lights, and ash pan flickering can be controlled separately in digital operation.
Maintenance-free warm white and red LEDs are used for the lighting.
There is a close coupling with a mechanism between the locomotive and the tender.
The tender has a close coupler with a guide mechanism in an NEM pocket.
The buffer height on the locomotive and tender adheres to the NEM.
The minimum radius for operation is 360 mm / 14-3/16".
Piston rod sleeves and brake hoses are included.
Length over the buffers approximately 27.9 cm / 11".

Always larger, always faster, and more efficient: In the USA up to World War II the big locomotive builders built very powerful locomotives that regularly left their European counterparts in the dust.
When the European motive power industry lay in rubble at the end of the war and when there were hardly any usable locomotives available for use, the French government turned to the USA to acquire quickly powerful steam locomotives.
Here it was a question of units corresponding to the French standards and that could be used in general-purpose service.
The result of these inquiries were the class 141.R. locomotives of which 700 units were purchased in the first production run.

Highlights
• Completely new tooling.
• Class 141.R. in the Märklin program for the first time.
• Especially intricate metal construction.
• A variety of separately applied details.
• Factory-installed smoke generator.
• Cab lighting, running gear lights, and firebox / burner
flickering controlled separately in digital operation.
• World of Operation mfx+ digital decoder with extensive
light and sound functions.
• Buffer height adheres to the NEM.

This model can be found in a DC version in the Trix H0 assortment
under item number 25141.