Hi all am still trying to get more information and start a HO scale 1930-40s German railway along with a modern Passenger train, I know not totally correct but it supposed to be fun. Brawa make some nice streamlined steam locomotives, can anyone give their opinions regarding quality and ease of operation for a newcomer, will they work on a DC layout, I’m wondering because I’ve found that there is regular DC and Marklin DC which requires track with 3 rails and I’d like a standard set up where I can run both US and German trains, I’m just starting so I’m still flexible, TIA
Hi Rafferty,
Brawa locos can be obtained in either DC or AC (Marklin) version. As you are just starting I siuggest that you look into DC, as this is world standard. Marklin is very reliable, but supplies other than Marklin are limited and very expensive.
Brawa makes well engineered, high quality locos that are certainly at the top end of R-T-R equipment. Their performance right out of the box is superior to any I encountered with premium brands like BLI etc. Also there not really cheap…
This is a picture of Brawa´s class 06- only one was built (i forgot to mention in the other thread). This loco never really made sense - to heavy, too much power.
The class 19 was certainly the most innovative steam loco, but came too late as electric power and Diesel took over after the war.
See the grey coloured steam motors? Unfortunately it is the wrong colour - they should be much darker!
Otherwise, both are excellent models!
so both the class 06 and class 19 were a darker grey than as pictured?
I believe he means the light grey things in front of the drive wheels.
Hello,
in your posting you mentioned that you would like to run US and German trains. I would very highly recommend to you to go the DC route. Marklin is a manufacturer of wonderful quality items but due to the the studs and also that it is a AC system you would be very limited in the US equipment that you could use. By going DC you can still get some of the german equipment that Marklin makes and sells through Trix, but there are also other manufacturers of great quality locmotives like Fleischmann, Roco and Lilliput-owned by the same people as Bachman. As for Brawa it seems that they are using the same manufacturer in China as P2K used to use.
On a personal note I used to have a Marklin trainset and found that the AC system has some great advantages over DC. At the same time it was a very restrictive system due to the lack of compatability of equipment and there is extremely little North American equipment available in AC.
Hope it helps.
Frank
That´s correct, Jay.
The class 19 was not a rod engine, but had 4 piston steam motors, two on each side. The Brawa model has them coloured in a light grey, near to silver, which is wrong. The correct colour would be near black. Both the class 06 and 19 come sound-equipped. I wonder what the sound for the class 19 is, as the typical beat would not have been apparent.
As an aside, does anyone remember the old “Trix Express” system: 3-rail DC, IIRC?
I do very well, but is has “passed away” many years ago.
Marklin, Fleischmann or Trix Express - that was something like a holy war in the 1950´s and 1960´s, with Marklin clearly being the winner. The Trix system had the advantage of letting two trains run on the same track, individually controlled. But it was too toy-like and finally it died some time in the 1970´s. Trix was later on bought up by Marklin, as Fleischmann was bought by Roco two years ago.
Do you know if the sound of a class 19 was ever recorded? You’ve piqued my curiosity, as they must have been unique sounding locos.
I doubt that it had ever been recorded. The loco was built in 1942, being the 25.000 loco to be built by the Henschel Works in Kassel. She never really entered the service she was built for. After being hit by bombings in 1944, she was taken out of service and finally taken to the US in 1945 by the Allied Forces and later on display in Fort Monroe. Scrapped in 1951/1952 in Fort Eustis without ever being under steam again.
As 1942 was not a good time in Germany, there are not that many pictures available.
As for the sound, I assume it to be more of a dark, hissing sound like a mad bumble bee…
Check this web page:
http://www.brawa.de/en/products/h0/locomotives/steam-locomotives/40130-br-19-10.html