Description: New Items announcement for 2026
*Announced Release Date: Q1 2026 (as per Jan 07, 2025 announcement)

Prototype: Grand Ducal Baden State Railroad (G. Bad. Sts. B.) class CidT "Kittel" design steam-powered rail car. The rail car looks as it did in 1915. Version in the original bottle-green paint scheme.

Model: The finely detailed model has a bell armature motor and a frame constructed of metal. Many separately applied parts. It also has enlarged buffer plates. A system coupler is fitted at the rear. The front buffer beam is prototypically reproduced. The dual headlights with warm-white LEDs 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, a procurement order was issued for a first series of seven steam-powered rail cars that were mainly operated on branch lines in southwestern Germany. Eugen Kittel, chief mechanical engineer for the Royal Wurttemberg State Railways (K.W.St.E.), designed a more efficient boiler, which led to an order for ten further steam-powered rail cars in Wurttemberg in 1905. The first series was modified accordingly. During the era of the German State Railroad Company, the remaining steam-powered rail cars were designated as road numbers 9 Stuttgart to 14 Stuttgart. Another series of class 121a steam-powered rail cars was delivered in 1914/15 for the Grand Ducal Baden State Railways, and were later designated by the German State Railroad Company (DRG) as 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 In 1951 and 1953, these two steam-powered rail cars, dating back to the provincial railroad period, were withdrawn from service by the German Federal Railroad.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: Slated for Q1 2026 Release