Roco 7120010 Steam locomotive 051 494-3, DB, AC, ep IV

Steam locomotive 051 494 from the German Federal Railroad.

Drives on two axles on the tender and via cardan shaft on all five locomotive drive axles.

■ With cab ends
■ Design with Witte smoke deflectors

Finely detailed model with many separately mounted plug-in parts
■ Finely detailed metal wheel sets
■ Smoke generator can be retrofitted

The Class 50, probably the most important DB steam locomotive from the 1950s/60s with many design 
variants, had proven itself in front of almost all types of trains on main and branch lines at the 
time.  Eventually, more than 60 major variants ensured that hardly any 50 version had a completely 
identical appearance to a sister locomotive.  ​​The 1'E freight locomotives, of which around 3,100 
units were built from 1939 onwards, were considered robust, powerful, easy to maintain and extremely 
reliable. After 1945, over 2,000 locomotives remained with the German Federal Railways. These 
machines achieved a maximum speed of 80 km/h, could produce an output of 1,200 kW and had an axle 
load of 15 t.
When the EDP class scheme was introduced in 1968, there were still 1,452 machines in the DB's 
inventory. Since the serial number could only have three digits, the designations 051, 052 and 053 
were introduced in addition to the class number 050.