MÄRKLIN PRODUCT: 39665 Steam tender locomotive - Class 66

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KEY DATA
Product Name	39665 Steam tender locomotive - Class 66
Object type	Locomotive-Steam tender
Product Line	Märklin Insider
Era	1945-1970 (III)
Manufactured years	2025-2025
Text on object	DB
Number on object	66 002
Classification	Class 66
Type of housing	Metal
Length	17,0 cm
Technology	Digital MFX+
Nationality	Germany
Railway company	- DB (Deutsche Bundesbahn 1949-1994)
Märklin RRP (Year)	549€ (2025)
Url to Märklin	Klick to GoTo www.maerklin.de

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Description
Steam tender Locomotive 66 002 German Federal Railroad (DB) class 66 passenger tank locomotive.The locomotive looks as it did in the mid-Sixties. Based at the railroad maintenance facility in Giessen. The steam locomotive, road number 66 002, was produced in 2025 in a one-time series exclusively only for Insider members.Insider-Modell 2 2025 The locomotive has an mfx+ digital decoder and extensive sound functions. It also has controlled high-efficiency propulsion with a flywheel mounted in the boiler. One axle powered. Two axles powered using side rods. Traction tires. The locomotive is constructed mostly of metal. There is a factory-installed smoke generator with speed-dependent dynamic smoke exhaust. There are triple headlights and dual red marker lights that change over with the direction of travel and that can be controlled digitally. The cab lighting can also be controlled digitally. Maintenance-free, warm white and red LEDs are used for the lighting. A buffer capacitor is included. Protective sleeves for the piston rods, brake hoses, heating lines, and prototype coupler imitations are included separately. Source: www.maerklin.de: The year is 1948. The railroad also recovered slowly but constantly from the immense war damage that affected the locomotive roster in particular. Although the diesel locomotive had already long since started its victory march in the USA, German engineers at that time believed that steam motive power was indispensable for the near future. The Technical Committee for Locomotives set up an extremely ambitious new construction program. A tank locomotive with the class designation 66 was to be built as a fast, powerful general-purpose locomotive for main and branch lines. The new class 66 was based on a design from the firm Henschel in Kassel, Germany. It envisaged running gear with three powered axles, a two-axle trailing truck, and a single-axle pilot truck. The relatively large driving axle diameter of 1,600 mm / 63 inches allowed a maximum speed of 100 km/h / 63 mph and the indexed output still came to 1,170 horsepower. Consideration was also given to the locomotive crew. The class 66 thus had a fully enclosed cab, skylight windows, floor heating, and upholstered seats with backrests. However, the two prototypes were not delivered until 1955 – at a time when the new German Federal Railroad had already decided to step back from steam motive power. Therefore, no regular production order was placed, although the prototypes had already more than fulfilled all of the expectations set for them. They were used in Hesse around Frankfurt and Giessen, even including express trains in regular service. Both locomotives were able to prove their worth for little more than a decade. They were put into storage in 1967. Road number 66 002 was preserved as a museum locomotive for the German Society for Railroad History and can be admired as a well-maintained unit at the museum in Bochum-Dahlhausen.

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Steam tender  Locomotive 66 002

German Federal Railroad (DB) class 66 passenger tank locomotive.The locomotive looks as it did in the mid-Sixties. Based at the railroad maintenance facility in Giessen.

The steam locomotive, road number 66 002, was produced in 2025 in a one-time series exclusively only for Insider members.Insider-Modell 2 2025

The locomotive has an mfx+ digital decoder and extensive sound functions. It also has controlled high-efficiency propulsion with a flywheel mounted in the boiler. One axle powered. Two axles powered using side rods. Traction tires. The locomotive is constructed mostly of metal. There is a factory-installed smoke generator with speed-dependent dynamic smoke exhaust. There are triple headlights and dual red marker lights that change over with the direction of travel and that can be controlled digitally. The cab lighting can also be controlled digitally. Maintenance-free, warm white and red LEDs are used for the lighting. A buffer capacitor is included. Protective sleeves for the piston rods, brake hoses, heating lines, and prototype coupler imitations are included separately.

Source: www.maerklin.de:
The year is 1948. The railroad also recovered slowly but constantly from the immense war damage that affected the locomotive roster in particular. Although the diesel locomotive had already long since started its victory march in the USA, German engineers at that time believed that steam motive power was indispensable for the near future. The Technical Committee for Locomotives set up an extremely ambitious new construction program. A tank locomotive with the class designation 66 was to be built as a fast, powerful general-purpose locomotive for main and branch lines. The new class 66 was based on a design from the firm Henschel in Kassel, Germany. It envisaged running gear with three powered axles, a two-axle trailing truck, and a single-axle pilot truck. The relatively large driving axle diameter of 1,600 mm / 63 inches allowed a maximum speed of 100 km/h / 63 mph and the indexed output still came to 1,170 horsepower. Consideration was also given to the locomotive crew. The class 66 thus had a fully enclosed cab, skylight windows, floor heating, and upholstered seats with backrests. However, the two prototypes were not delivered until 1955 – at a time when the new German Federal Railroad had already decided to step back from steam motive power. Therefore, no regular production order was placed, although the prototypes had already more than fulfilled all of the expectations set for them. They were used in Hesse around Frankfurt and Giessen, even including express trains in regular service. Both locomotives were able to prove their worth for little more than a decade. They were put into storage in 1967. Road number 66 002 was preserved as a museum locomotive for the German Society for Railroad History and can be admired as a well-maintained unit at the museum in Bochum-Dahlhausen.

MÄRKLIN PRODUCT: 39665 Steam tender locomotive - Class 66

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.....