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BR23-001-L
BR23-001-L Engine with tender.
One of my latest project was the 7-wide BR23-001-L created by Reinhard Ben Beneke in 2005. The tender will be motorized by power functions but still has to be redeveloped. I will upload new pictures of the power functions tender as soon it is ready. Some parts were very difficult to get, like the drive shafts on the wheels of the locomotive. The light gray bar should be dark gray but I still did not find it. The sides on the wheels of the tender were very hard to get and the gray 7 long axles should be black. However I found the old red buffer which look really nice. Even the two studs plates for the door hinges were not easy to get but I found them after all. The model has some nice building techniques and it was a lot of fun for me to build this project. But that's logic it's Lego !
I hope you all like the result so far.
The German Class 23 (Baureihe 23 or BR 23) engines of the Deutsche Reichsbahn (DRG) were standard steam engines that were conceived as a replacement for the Prussian P 8 by the Schichau Works. They were given the same boiler as the Class 50s which were developed in parallel and, like them, the newly developed 2'2' T 26 tender with its front wall that protected train crews during reverse running.
In 1941 the two prototypes were built and delivered. The procurement of 800 locomotives had been planned, however the constraints of the Second World War meant that they never entered full production.
After the war the two locomotives, with operating numbers 23 001 and 23 002, went to the DR in East Germany and were variously stabled in Berlin, Brandenburg an der Havel, Jüterbog and Halle. In 1961, number 23 001 was given a Reko boiler with combustion chamber, developed for the Class 50. In 1970 the locomotive was given EDP number 35 2001-2. Number 23 002 was to be reconstructed, but was retired however in 1967 due to damage to the frame and scrapped. Number 23 001 was scrapped in 1975 in Cottbus, as it could no longer serve any useful purpose.
After the war, the design of these Class 02 locomotives formed the basis for the new DB Class 23 and DR Class 23.10 locomotives which received the same class designation.
Building instructions have been made by Thorsten Benter and can be found on rail bricks: railbricks.com/instructions/br-23-001-l/
BR23-001-L
BR23-001-L Engine with tender.
One of my latest project was the 7-wide BR23-001-L created by Reinhard Ben Beneke in 2005. The tender will be motorized by power functions but still has to be redeveloped. I will upload new pictures of the power functions tender as soon it is ready. Some parts were very difficult to get, like the drive shafts on the wheels of the locomotive. The light gray bar should be dark gray but I still did not find it. The sides on the wheels of the tender were very hard to get and the gray 7 long axles should be black. However I found the old red buffer which look really nice. Even the two studs plates for the door hinges were not easy to get but I found them after all. The model has some nice building techniques and it was a lot of fun for me to build this project. But that's logic it's Lego !
I hope you all like the result so far.
The German Class 23 (Baureihe 23 or BR 23) engines of the Deutsche Reichsbahn (DRG) were standard steam engines that were conceived as a replacement for the Prussian P 8 by the Schichau Works. They were given the same boiler as the Class 50s which were developed in parallel and, like them, the newly developed 2'2' T 26 tender with its front wall that protected train crews during reverse running.
In 1941 the two prototypes were built and delivered. The procurement of 800 locomotives had been planned, however the constraints of the Second World War meant that they never entered full production.
After the war the two locomotives, with operating numbers 23 001 and 23 002, went to the DR in East Germany and were variously stabled in Berlin, Brandenburg an der Havel, Jüterbog and Halle. In 1961, number 23 001 was given a Reko boiler with combustion chamber, developed for the Class 50. In 1970 the locomotive was given EDP number 35 2001-2. Number 23 002 was to be reconstructed, but was retired however in 1967 due to damage to the frame and scrapped. Number 23 001 was scrapped in 1975 in Cottbus, as it could no longer serve any useful purpose.
After the war, the design of these Class 02 locomotives formed the basis for the new DB Class 23 and DR Class 23.10 locomotives which received the same class designation.
Building instructions have been made by Thorsten Benter and can be found on rail bricks: railbricks.com/instructions/br-23-001-l/