■ Digitally switchable light and sound functions

■ Driver’s cab interior lighting can be controlled digitally

■ Engine lighting with 3 lamps on each side can be controlled digitally

■ In Era III lettering for the first time

■ Lower-seated DB Witte smoke deflectors

■ Medium driving axles with smaller wheel flanges

■ Clear view between boiler and chassis

■ Type 2’2’T34 coal tender

The standard locomotive program of the Deutsche Reichsbahn-Gesellschaft (DRG) also included the development of a powerful freight locomotive. The BR 44 locomotive with triple engine was expected to be used to transport freight trains up to 1,200 t in low mountain ranges and up to 600 t over steep ramps. In 1926 the first 10 machines with the wheel arrangement 1’E h3 were delivered. It was not until 1937, after the increased demands of train transport, that this locomotive went into series production and was procured in large numbers in various versions. Until they were replaced by modern diesel and electric locomotives, the machines of the 44 series formed the backbone of heavy goods train service throughout Germany.

• Railway company – DB
• Power system – DC
• Digital-Decoder – DCC
• Interface – Next18 Digital Socket
• Length over buffer – 141mm
• Minimum radius – 192mm
• Head light – Digitally switchable triple from headlights
• Coupling – NEM Shaft 355 with close coupling mechanism