Prototype: German State Railroad Company (DRG) class 56.2-8 steam freight locomotive. Rebuilt Prussian G 8.1 with a pilot truck. German State Railroad lanterns and bell. Type 3T 16,5 coal tender. Road number 56 569. The locomotive looks as it did around 1938.

Model: The locomotive has the new mfx+ digital decoder and extensive sound functions. It also has controlled high-efficiency propulsion with a flywheel, mounted in the boiler. 4 axles powered. Traction tires. The locomotive and tender are constructed mostly of metal. The locomotive has a factory-installed 72270 smoke unit. The dual headlights change over with the direction of travel. They and the built-in smoke unit will work in conventional operation and can be controlled digitally.

Warm white LEDs are used for the lighting. There is a permanent close coupling with a guide mechanism between the locomotive and tender. The rear of the tender has a Telex coupler that can be controlled in digital operation. The front of the locomotive has a close coupler with an NEM pocket. The locomotive has many separately applied details such as piping and sand pipes. Protective piston sleeves, brake lines, imitation prototype couplers, and figures of a locomotive engineer and a fireman are included. Length over the buffers 21.1 cm / 8-5/16“.

A freight car set to go with this locomotive is being produced under item number 46088 also exclusively for the MHI in the Märklin assortment at ajckids.com.

This model is being produced in a one-time series only for the Märklin Dealer Initiative (MHI). The fourth locomotive of a series of 5 locomotives with traces of authentic weathering. 

• Authentic signs of weathering.
• Presentation board included.
• mfx+ digital decoder and extensive operational and sound functions included.
• For still more operating enjoyment in the Märklin "World of Operation".
• Figures of a locomotive engineer and a fireman included.
• Factory-installed smoke unit included.
• Telex coupler on the tender.