Steam loco BR 18 323 DB mfx+ Sound

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Brand
Märklin
gauge
HO gauge	16,5mm
power supply
AC
product type
steam loco
technical & model details
running number	18 323
friction tires	ja
interior lighting	Digitally switchable cab lighting
interior details	driver cab
couplers	NEM 362 coupler pocket, Märklin couplings
Length (mm)	272
light	3-light peak signal
scale	1:87
with motor	yes
smoke generator	yes
flywheel	ja
Age notice	not suitable under 14 years
digital & sound
factory fitted Digital Sound
country
Germany	DB
era (continental)
era IV (1965-1990)

Model: HO gauge AC. With digital decoder mfx+ and extensive sound functions. Regulated high-performance drive with flywheel in the boiler. 3 axles powered. traction tires. Locomotive and tender largely made of metal. Smoke insert installed as standard, with speed-dependent, dynamic smoke output, digitally switchable. The triple headlights, which change depending on the direction of travel, work in conventional operation and can be controlled digitally. The driver's cab lighting, chassis lighting and firebox flickering can also be controlled separately digitally. Lighting with maintenance-free warm white and red light-emitting diodes (LED). Adjustable close coupling with kinematics between locomotive and tender. Kinematically guided close coupling with NEM shaft on the tender. Buffer height on locomotive and tender according to NEM. Minimum passable radius 360 mm. For large radii or display cases, narrower access steps below the driver's cab are available for replacement. Piston rod protection tubes, heating and brake hoses are also included. Length over buffers 27.2 cm.

Prototype: German Federal Railroad (DB) express train steam locomotive type 18 323 with a type 2'2 T29.6 coal tender. Former Baden IVh. Test locomotive at the Federal Railway Testing Office in Minden. Black/red basic color scheme. With Witte smoke deflectors and Indusi on the locomotive driver side. Chimney with Caledonian brim. Operating condition around 1966.

They were elegant, beautifully designed, powerful and real locomotive legends: The state railway express train locomotives of the Bavarian class S 3/6 and the Württemberg class C made railway history, as did the most modern four-cylinder Pacific, the Baden IVh, which was at J. A. Maffei in Munich until 1920 20 copies were built.
On the Mannheim – Basel racetrack, among other places, the 18.3, as the high-wheeled and around 2,000 hp machines were called on the Reichsbahn, reliably pulled such famous trains as the “Rheingold” or the “Riviera-Naples-Express” for years. After 1945, however, their fate as a splinter genus seemed sealed, and the scrapyard was threatened.
Then Theodor Düring, the head of the Federal Railway Central Office and a big fan of the powerful state railway beauties, came onto the scene and had 18 323, 18 316 and 18 319 refurbished and modernized for the demanding service on test runs. They proved to be excellent and were used in tests of new locomotive types throughout Germany.
Düring's cabinet of rarities, which also included a Bavarian S 3/6, caused a stir not only among railway workers, especially since 18,316 reached 162 km/h on a record run in 1956. 18 323 ran the longest and was the star of many sold-out special trips from the mid-1960s until it was shut down at the end of 1969.
Especially in Baden, crowds of people often marveled at the steam locomotive giant, whose career had begun in this region 50 years earlier. Many railway workers had never forgotten their racers. An Offenburg train driver is said to have once said the following statement with great sadness: "I'll never get anything as good as the Maffei machine." At least two of these good Maffei engines have been preserved: 18 323 and 18 316 in Offenburg and Mannheim are reminders of this Baden-Bavarian masterpiece in German locomotive construction.