MÄRKLIN PRODUCT: 38700 Steam locomotive with tender - US Shay Design

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KEY DATA
Product Name	38700 Steam locomotive with tender - US Shay Design
Object type	Locomotive-Steam with tender
Product Line	Märklin MHI
Era	1925-1945 (II)
Manufactured years	2025-2026
Text on object	WESTERN MARYLAND
Number on object	5
Classification	-
Type of housing	Metal
Length	25,2 cm
Technology	Digital MFX+
Nationality	USA
Railway company	- Various companies
Märklin RRP (Year)	649€ (2025)
Url to Märklin	Klick to GoTo www.maerklin.de

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Description
US Shay Design Gear Drive Steam Locomotive US Shay design Class D gear drive steam locomotive. Version with 4 powered trucks. Drive using crankshafts to articulated shafts and using beveled gears on the trucks. Characteristic boiler offset to the left included. Used mostly on American field and logging railroads on routes with sharp curves and steep grades. Western Maryland Locomotive Number 5. The locomotive looks as it did in the Forties. The locomotive has an mfx+ digital decoder and extensive sound functions. It also has controlled high-efficiency propulsion with a flywheel in the boiler. All axles in the four trucks on the locomotive and tender are powered using articulated shafts and beveled gears. Traction tires. There is a factory-installed smoke unit. There is one headlight on the locomotive and tender and they change over with the direction of travel. The headlight changeover and the smoke unit work in conventional operation and can be controlled digitally. The cab lighting can also be controlled digitally. Maintenance-free, warm white LEDs are used for the lighting. The locomotive has a buffer capacitor. Point-mounted NEM standard coupler pockets are on the rear of the tender and the front of the locomotive. Source: www.maerklin.de The Industrial Age also marked the beginning in the USA of systematic development of natural resources which provided the material for rapid progress. Coal became the most important source of energy and wood was needed in large quantities for the construction boom across the country. However, there were many extensive forest areas and also large coal deposits often in remote regions that were difficult to access. The sawmill owner Ephraim Shay developed a gear-driven steam locomotive around 1873 in order to open these areas up better. Its design allowed it to pull heavy loads on difficult, curving routes. At high speeds it could not manage the job. Starting in 1880 the large locomotive builder LIMA Locomotive Works took over its construction and continuously refined it. The basic principle remained the same: A vertically installed steam engine mounted on the right side drove all the axles using a gear drive and thereby provided optimal pulling power, whereby the boiler had to be mounted offset to balance the weight distribution. The maximum speed was limited to about 25 km/h / 15 mph due to the small gear reduction. The Shays turned out very well and became a mystique among steam locomotives not only due to their unusual technology but also because of their massive appearance. In the end, a respectable 2,770 Shay locomotives were built by 1945. Most ran on forest logging railroads, although a number of units were also delivered to important railroad companies. The Western Maryland Railway (WM), developing the numerous coal reserves in the eastern part of the USA, bought large Shays for branch lines to coal mines. There grades of up to 10% and curves of under 100 meters / 325 feet had to be mastered. By 1945 the WM used the massive, 136 ton four-truck Shay Number 5 in the Appalachians. It was replaced by the most powerful Shay ever built, Number 6, which still currently steams through the mountains of West Virginia in tourist service. The new Märklin Shay is entering the fascinating world of model railroading with this quite unusual chapter in locomotive history.

Description

US Shay Design Gear Drive Steam Locomotive

US Shay design Class D gear drive steam locomotive. Version with 4 powered trucks. Drive using crankshafts to articulated shafts and using beveled gears on the trucks. Characteristic boiler offset to the left included. Used mostly on American field and logging railroads on routes with sharp curves and steep grades. Western Maryland Locomotive Number 5. The locomotive looks as it did in the Forties.

The locomotive has an mfx+ digital decoder and extensive sound functions. It also has controlled high-efficiency propulsion with a flywheel in the boiler. All axles in the four trucks on the locomotive and tender are powered using articulated shafts and beveled gears. Traction tires. There is a factory-installed smoke unit. There is one headlight on the locomotive and tender and they change over with the direction of travel. The headlight changeover and the smoke unit work in conventional operation and can be controlled digitally. The cab lighting can also be controlled digitally. Maintenance-free, warm white LEDs are used for the lighting. The locomotive has a buffer capacitor. Point-mounted NEM standard coupler pockets are on the rear of the tender and the front of the locomotive.

Source: www.maerklin.de
The Industrial Age also marked the beginning in the USA of systematic development of natural resources which provided the material for rapid progress. Coal became the most important source of energy and wood was needed in large quantities for the construction boom across the country. However, there were many extensive forest areas and also large coal deposits often in remote regions that were difficult to access. The sawmill owner Ephraim Shay developed a gear-driven steam locomotive around 1873 in order to open these areas up better. Its design allowed it to pull heavy loads on difficult, curving routes. At high speeds it could not manage the job. Starting in 1880 the large locomotive builder LIMA Locomotive Works took over its construction and continuously refined it. The basic principle remained the same: A vertically installed steam engine mounted on the right side drove all the axles using a gear drive and thereby provided optimal pulling power, whereby the boiler had to be mounted offset to balance the weight distribution. The maximum speed was limited to about 25 km/h / 15 mph due to the small gear reduction. The Shays turned out very well and became a mystique among steam locomotives not only due to their unusual technology but also because of their massive appearance. In the end, a respectable 2,770 Shay locomotives were built by 1945. Most ran on forest logging railroads, although a number of units were also delivered to important railroad companies. The Western Maryland Railway (WM), developing the numerous coal reserves in the eastern part of the USA, bought large Shays for branch lines to coal mines. There grades of up to 10% and curves of under 100 meters / 325 feet had to be mastered. By 1945 the WM used the massive, 136 ton four-truck Shay Number 5 in the Appalachians. It was replaced by the most powerful Shay ever built, Number 6, which still currently steams through the mountains of West Virginia in tourist service. The new Märklin Shay is entering the fascinating world of model railroading with this quite unusual chapter in locomotive history.

MÄRKLIN PRODUCT: 38700 Steam locomotive with tender - US Shay Design

AN EXTRACT FROM MODEL RAIL WORKSHOP - H0 MÄRKLIN DATABASE Feel free to copy and use.....

AN EXTRACT FROM MODEL RAIL WORKSHOP - H0 MÄRKLIN DATABASE

Feel free to copy and use.....