Re: [Z] Marklin DB class 74 tender & caboose

SDF Poster wrote:

So would a DB class 74 loco ever have been used on the DRG? My guess is
that these Marklin sets would work out OK:

Certainly, there were some hundreds of them. They lasted almost to the
computer numbering era of the DB. (era 4)


8104 (Prussian Coach Set which includes a Gepaeckwagen I believe)
87580 & 87560 (DRG car set)

Gepaeckwagen came in both passenger and goods train form. The passenger
types had space, in addition, for passenger luggage.


Or, would that loco never have been used for passenger coaches?

The locomotive design was primarily intended for short route passenger
trains.
In fact the design was an upgrade of the class T11 (also 2-6-0t BR74)
with an enlarged superheated boiler intended for the Berlin suburban
lines where high acceleration between closely spaced stations was
required.
When the Berlin lines were electrified around WWI these near new locos
became redundant and were spread across Germany. As reparations for WWI
they spread across Europe.
On the LBE some of these locos were even built as streamliners, although
the streamlining was almost certainly for publicity purposes rather than
all-out speed.


Thank you for your kind insight and interesting banter!
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