BRAWA 40512 T8 KPEV, DC

Model Details:

Filigree reversing gear
Finest paintwork and printing
Freestanding pipes
Prepared for smoke generator
Boiler and wheels in die-cast zinc
Spring buffers Illuminated driver’s cab
NEM-standard short-coupling
21-pole interface
Protoype: After the ‘Eisenbahnbau- und Betriebsordnung’ (‘Act for the Construction and Operations of Railways’) also permitted a maximum speed of 50 kph on branch lines from 4th November 1904, several railway divisions requested a C-coupled tender locomotive which was also capable of achieving this speed. In 1902, such a locomotive had been rejected in view of the T 12, which was at the development stage. The chief engineer and advocate of super heated steam Robert Garbe planned a universal locomotive which could be used both as for passenger and for freight trains. Linke-Hofmann in Breslau was commissioned with the development of the design, from whose factory halls the first Prussian T 8 engines then came in 1908. The large wheels and the lack of mass compensation made the locomotive judder at high speeds, which led to corresponding nicknames such as “boneshaker”. Another blunder was the much too high weight, which prevented its use on branch lines de facto. Due to its good acceleration, however, the T 8 was to provide good service on suburban lines in Berlin.