Description: Summer New Items announcement for 2025
*Announced Release Date: May 2025 (as per May 15, 2025 announcement); likely to arrive in USA around July 2025
As of today October 15, 2025, these are already released, but USA-based dealers like z.scale.hobo await their arrival. The item is SOLD OUT at the factory and we only have a few open slots available. Pre-order swiftly!

Prototype: German State Railroad (DRG) Ci dT Wu 05. Kittel design from the Esslingen Machinery Company. The unit looks as it did in Era II.

Model: This is a steam-powered rail car with a motor with a bell-shaped armature and fine detailing. The frame is constructed of metal. The powered rail car has many separately applied parts. The powered rail car has larger buffer plates. The rear of the car has a Z Gauge system coupler. The buffer beam is prototypically modelled on the front of the car. The car has dual headlights with warm white LEDs that change over with the direction of travel. Both axles are powered. Length over the buffers approximately 51 mm / 2".

Highlights:
* The model's frame is constructed of metal.
* Motor with a bell-shaped armature.
* Highly detailed.
* Warm white LEDs for the headlights.
* Rear of the model includes Z Scale Marklin coupler.
* Buffer beam modelled correctly on the front.
* Many separately applied parts.

More details: The Kittel - A Durable Steam-Powered Rail Car. As early as the end of the 19th century, procurement was begun of a first series of seven steam-powered rail cars that were chiefly run on branch lines in the southwest part of Germany. Eugen Kittel, chief mechanical engineer for the Royal Wurttemberg State Railways (K.W.St.E.) designed a more efficient boiler, which led in 1905 to the order for another 10 steam powered rail cars in Wurttemberg. The first series was rebuilt accordingly. At the time of the German State Railroad, the remaining steam-powered rail cars were rostered under the road numbers 9 Stuttgart to 14 Stuttgart. Another series of steam-powered rail cars under the class 121a was delivered in 1914/15 for the Grand Ducal Baden State Railways, and they were later rostered on the DRG under the road numbers CidT 1 to 8. Two steam-powered rail cars from this Baden series were acquired by the German Federal Railroad after 1945, and they were painted in the crimson color scheme customary for powered rail cars. In 1951 and 1953, these two steam-powered rail cars from the provincial railroad period were retired from service on the German Federal Railroad.

Pre-order status - your pre-order hold funds will be applied to the final price of the item. The pre-order hold is NON-refundable except ONLY in the case where Marklin cancels the item.

STATUS: SOLD OUT