| Steam Locomotive with Tender.
German Federal Railroad (DB) class 3810 - 40 passenger locomotive. Former Prussian P8. Version with 3 domes, small Witte smoke deflectors and box-style tender.
This locomotive also exists with loc no 38 2003 and with silver colour.- included in train set 00380
Source: www.maerklin.de
For over 100 years the Prussian P8 has been considered by railroad enthusiasts in Germany and Europe to be one of the most beautiful steam locomotives built. From 1906 to 1928 over 3,800 of these locomotives were built for the Royal Prussian Railroad Administration (KPEV), for other German provincial railroads, for foreign railroads, and even for the German State Railroad Company (DRG). Over 300 units were still in use in Germany after 1945 and the last of them were used well into the 1970s in regional service. At present there about 20 survivors of this group in operational condition spread out over all of Europe. |
