OK dear readers of this blog, you are interested in the BR52 and the Trumpeter model. The BR 52 is the best known of the Kriegsloks (warlokomotives) of the German Reichsbahn. Building started in 1942 but not by a single company. For this project the majour locomotive works where put together into the GGL, Gemeinschaft Großdeutscher Lokomotivhersteller (“Consortium of German Locomotivebuilders”). The initial plan stated a production of 15000 locomotives, of which roughly 7000 where actually built by the members of this consortium.
Those machine where numbered 52 001 to 52 7794. The first one, 52 0001 was a special show comission since it had the Hakenkreuz on the smokechamber door. It was run around all of Germany. The locomitives with the runningnumbers 52 1850–1986 where machines with the initial 5 axle “Kondenstender” while the numbers 2 1987–2027 had 4 axle tenders.
The BR52 is a more simplified version of the BR50 which was the major goods hauler from 1939 and was the “Übergangskriegslokomotive” (temporary war locomotive). Due to it’s success and simplicity the BR52 did run until late in the 80′s.
External Link: http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/DRB_Baureihe_52