Fleischmann 61-001 Tank-Locomotive ~ Keywound ~ Works & Reversing - US Zone - HO

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Seller: Top-Rated Seller ikasmreom1 ✉️ (2,019) 99.6%, Location: London, Ohio, US, Ships to: US, CA, Item: 125838257494 Fleischmann 61-001 Tank-Locomotive ~ Keywound ~ Works & Reversing - US Zone - HO. We try to be Friendly to our international customers especially with our:  UPS Standard to Canada, Because it was planned to run the train in shuttle services to a tight time schedule, it was necessary that the engine could run at top speed in both directions. This resulted in a tank-locomotive rather than a tender-locomotive  design otherwise used for long-distance high-speed links. In order to be able to attain the high running performance aimed at, locomotive and coaches were designed to be especially light, albeit the coal and water supplies had still to be sufficient for a one-way trip on the planned route.   In building them, component designs from the Deutsch-Riech-Bahn's  standard steam locomotives   Einheitsdampflokomotiven  were used as far as possible, but in quite a number of areas other components were used. The  boiler over-pressure  was set at the higher level of 20 atm (293.9 psi), whereas those of the standard locos were operated at 16 atm (235.1 psi). Both locomotives were fitted with a streamlined shell. The water tank tapered at the front and gave the engine driver and stoker a good all-round view of the line. The "cover plates" covered the drive completely.

In contrast to the first engine, 61 002, which was built later, had a drive with three cylinders, and larger supply tanks. To support the latter, the rear carrying bogie was extended to three axles. As a result of the more powerful drive, the punctuality of the train was improved - it had been unsatisfactory with 61 001. In addition, the second locomotive had smoke deflectors on top next to the smoke exhaust, which were not fitted to 61 001.

After the cessation of the train's operations at the start of 1939, 61 001 was used for heating duties at Bw  Berlin-Grunewald. Being used to heat the train station would seem an odd use for a steam locomotive but the winters during that period were exceptionally harsh, and since civilian train operations had been discontinued it was perfectly rational.  From December 1940, it found itself once again in Dresden-Altstadt on express train services and was given conventional train and buffer equipment in November 1942. Its operations log shows that it was only sparingly used. From 1943 to the war's end, the Reichsbahn repair shop (Reichsbahnsausbesserungswerk  or RAW ) at Braunschweig was responsible for the engine. Between July 1945 and March 1946, it travelled about 40,000 kilometres (25,000 mi) hauling passenger trains.

Henschel built the DR 61-001 in 1935 the streamlined steam tank-locomotives for the "Henschel-Wegmann-Zug", the coaches of the train were built by Wegmann. The locomotive was a 2'C2 streamlined steam locomotive with a "Zwilings" transmission and a boiler pressure of 20 bar. The locomotive was able to pull the train of 130 ton with a speed of 175 km/h. The locomotive was equipped with driving wheels of 2300 mm. The locomotive was indicated as BR 61 001. In 1935 the locomotive was delivered to the LVA Grundewald, and in 1936, the Henschel-Wegmann-Zug entered service between Berlin and Dresden. The 176 km long trip was made in 100 minutes. A disadvantage of the BR 61 was the small water supply and could only making the trip at 160 km/h quiet running.   In 1939 Henschel delivered a second locomotive, the 61 002. This locomotive was a little different in comparison with the 61 001. The 61 002 had a "Drilings" transmission, and the rear bogie had three axles. And the water supply was increased from 17 to 21 m3.   Both locomotives could ride forward and backwards with the same speed, the advantage of this was that the locomotive did not have to be turned at end stations.  The 61 002 was never entered into service because the second world war broke out in 1939. The historical heritage charted with unusual locomotives such as those we can no longer see in person. Germany’s BR 61 001 was one of two locomotives intended to be used for express train service for the Henschel-Wegmann trainset: Dresden-Berlin Route.    The 61 001 was found standing at the end of war in Bw Braunschweig and was after a revision divided into the trainsets category at the Bw Hannover and Bielefeld. In 1952 the locomotive was set aside after an accident. The 61 002 was the locomotive destined for the train of the minister of transportation, Mr Kramer. In 1961 this locomotive was rebuilt in Raw Meiningen to a 2'C1' h3 locomotive with a pulled tender and became number 18 201 as a resistance locomotive. Last two photos are of 61-002 B&W during WWII and the color photo is post-war note the German Eagle was removed.  The video clip is of the actual 61-001 in operation in the late 1930's Germany. In 1940 brothers Johann and Emil Fleischmann took over from their parents. Initial train production was just a continued Doll et Cie product line, and much of the advertising even retained the Doll logo. During the war years toy production was prohibited by the German government and Fleischmann made gas masks, ammunition belts, visors, plates and mugs for the military. The Nüremberg factory at Kirchenweg was partially destroyed during the war, but was rebuilt, and toy production resumed in 1945. After the war Fleischmann got a boost from the Marshall Plan. In the US Zone of Germany, the 'tin toys for tinned food' program was devised, whereby the toymakers got their factories operational, and sent the entire year's production to the US, in return for food supplies. This program is the reason that some older Fleischmann engines with 'Made in Germany US Zone' printed on the bottom, can be found in the US. Their first new model train, in 'O' scale (32mm), was produced in 1949, and introduced at the Frankfort Toy Fair. These early products included locomotives and carriages that mimicked the prototypical trains that ran in Germany during this period. Some of the trains were clockwork powered and some of these trains ran on DC powered 2 rail steel tracks, that was unique in its use of cardboard for the ties, instead of steel.  Properly speaking there was no Germany, in a legal sense, from 1945 to 1949, so anything produced there was stamped with the occupation zone.  After 1949, things started to be labeled West Germany (or East Germany) as the occupation came to an end. There is, of course, some fuzziness in the dates.  During the planning for the occupation of Germany, the Allies were faced with the issue of whether food allocations for the country should be set at either the minimum needed to avoid disease and possible civil disorder, or levels sufficient to fully meet the population's needs.    Widespread food shortages first began to occur in Germany immediately following the end of the war in May 1945.    The production of food was disrupted by the effects of the war, including the destruction of farmland, livestock, and the confiscation of farm machinery by the allies.    As a result, the output of the German farms was sufficient to provide city residents with only 1,000 kilocalories of nutrition per day.    Undernourishment is visible when a person consumes less than 1,800 kilocalories, while starvation comes when their daily norm drops below the critical mark of  1,000 kilocalories a day . Lack of food and its poor-quality cause a negative impact on people’s health, labor force quality, and productivity. Once the occupation of Germany commenced, it proved impossible to deliver the intended levels of food. The Allied planners underestimated the extent of the damage to German infrastructure and overestimated the ability of Germans to grow their own food. As a result, once supplies which had been stockpiled by the German government during the war ran out, the ration scales were reduced even further.     After the German surrender, the U.S. chose to designate large numbers of German prisoners as "disarmed enemy forces" instead of POW's  status, under which the captives would have been under the protection of the Geneva Convention.   Rheinwiesenlager t he conditions these prisoners had to endure were often harsh. A number of the camps in Western Germany, especially initially, were huge wired-in enclosures lacking sufficient shelter and other necessities.    Since there was no longer a danger of German retaliation against Allied POWs, "litlle effort was put into finding ways of procuring scarce food and shelter than would otherwise have been the case, and, consequently, tens of thousands of prisoners died from hunger and disease who might have been survived.   After the German surrender, the International Red Cross was prohibited from providing aid such as food or visiting the US Zone prisoner camps. However, after making approaches to the Allies in the fall of 1945, it was allowed to investigate the camps in the UK and French occupation zones of Germany, respectively, as well as to provide relief to the prisoners held there.    Fearing a Nazi uprising, U.S. occupation forces were under strict orders not to share their food with the German population; these orders also applied to their wives when they arrived later in the occupation. The women were under orders not to allow their German maids to get hold of any leftovers; "the food was to be destroyed or made inedible", in order to starve the German civilian population.    The German food situation became worst during the very cold winter of 1946–47, when German food energy intake ranged from 1,000 to 1,500 kcal per day, a situation made worse by severe lack of fuel for heating.    The precise effect of the food crisis on the German Civilian population  and mortality has been a matter of some contention. Speaking of the Anglo-American zones Herbert Hoover  reported that in the fall of 1946, starvation produced a 40 percent increase in mortality among Germans over age 70.    American food policy insured that t he German infant mortality rate was twice that of other nations in Western Europe until the close of 1948. President Franklin D. Roosevelt said, " Too many people here and in England hold the view that the German people as a whole are not responsible for what has taken place – that only a few Nazis are responsible. That unfortunately is not based on fact. The German people must have it driven home to them that the whole nation has been engaged in a lawless conspiracy against the decencies of modern civilization."    On March 20, 1945, President Roosevelt was warned that the JCS 1067 was not severe enough: it would let the Germans "stew in their own juice". Roosevelt's response was "Let them have soup kitchens! Let their economy sink!" Asked if he wanted the German people to starve, he replied, "Why not? On October 24, 1951, President Harry Truman  finally proclaims that the nation’s war with Germany, begun in 1941, is officially over. Fighting had ended in the spring of 1945.  Most Americans assumed that the war with Germany had ended with the cessation of hostilities  six years earlier. In fact, a treaty with Germany had not been signed. Complicating the treaty process was the status of territory within what was formerly the German state.   The "war" was continued until October 1951 to allow the continued forced {slave} labor of former German soldiers on US farms and factories and in Europe primarily by the French for the hazardous clearing of minefields.   When the Red Cross and NGO aid organizations asked the president for food assistance for the starving civilian German population a deal was brokered to allow tinned food in exchange for German made toys, thus the "Tinned Food for Tin Toys Program".   See all of our listings, visit:   Ika's Train Store Note #1: I will combine shipping for multiple items. Please purchase the items but do *NOT* pay. I will review and calculate shipping as close as to what I have to pay. I will then forward an invoice with the adjusted shipping. If you do pay ahead of this recalculation, I will refund the shipping difference as part of preparing the items for shipment. 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  • Condition: Used
  • Condition: Tested Works Great - On-Off Switch and Forward Reverse both work GREAT - a chip is broken off one of the wheels but doesn't seem to affect the toys operation.
  • Assembly Status: Ready to Go/Pre-built
  • Color: Black
  • Replica of: Br-61-001 Tank-Locomotive
  • Wheel Configuration: 2-C-2
  • Scale: 1:87
  • Grade: C-7 Excellent
  • Year Manufactured: 1936
  • Material: Plastic, Pressed Steel
  • Age Level: 17 Years & Up
  • Control System: Analog
  • Franchise: German Railroads
  • Gauge: HO
  • Vintage: Yes
  • Brand: Fleischmann
  • Type: Locomotive
  • Rail System: Two-Rail System
  • Corporate Roadname: Deutsche Reichsbahn
  • Theme: Transportation
  • Features: Keywind, Key, Forward & Reverse Lever
  • Time Period Manufactured: 1936-1938
  • Country/Region of Manufacture: Germany
  • Item Weight: 0.5 lb

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