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The Most "American" of All Locomotives
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<p> Sheldon,</p><p>wouldn´t it be a great sight, looking out of your window and one of these Ma&Pa 4-4-0 would steam by...</p><p>Talking about roster, after WW I, all German State Railways, i.e from Prussia, Saxony, Bavaria etc were merged to form Deutsche Reichsbahn, who after paying reparation to the Grand Alliance, was in desperate need for new motive power. They standardized the design very much to guarantee interchangeability of parts. This gave the roster of "Einheitslokomotiven" (Standard locos) a "family face" - similar to what the PRR did. In total, there were some 30 different "classes" of locos covering the range. A lot of them are available in HO scale. In addition to those locos, many of the pre-WW I designs remained in service, blowing the number of different design up way over the 200 mark. If you model the early 1930 era, chances that you will be able to stock up with most of them are pretty good, as a number of smaller, shop-type companies fill the gap the mass-producers have left. But again, don´t ask for the price.</p><p>Incidentally, one of the last steam locos to got out of service in the late 1970´s was an old Prussian P 8 4-6-0, designed and built in 1906, after more than 70 years of active service! </p><p>it looked like this:</p><p><img src="http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/e/e9/P8_Kranichstein.jpg/800px-P8_Kranichstein.jpg" mce_src="http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/e/e9/P8_Kranichstein.jpg/800px-P8_Kranichstein.jpg" width="800" height="532"><br> </p><p>Thanks for all the info! [:)] <br></p>
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