Bavarian Loco Eng Inst 1

This assembly instruction follows the original german wording as strictly as possible and is written in less sophisticated engtish but is intended to be straight-forward and may contain some orthographical errors and grammatical blunders. You may feelfree to contact the e-mait adress below with your conections and suggestions.

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CFM-Verlag Stahlgruberring 53 D-81829 Miinchen GERMANY

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translation: Thomas Pleiner e-mail: thomas.pleiner(Bt-online.de

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Bavarian locomotive S3/6 cardmodel designed by Hartmut Scholz

Some comments about the original locomotive:

The Bavarian S 3/6 - a legendary locomotive. The most beuatiful and powerful locomotive of Royal Bavarian Railroad.

Any railroad-enthusiast knows this lomotive. Indeed it was the most beautiful and powerful loco of ifs time. Most model-railroad manu-facturers carry this machinę in their product rangę. No other locomo-tive had a reputation like the S 3/6 built by Krauss-Maffei in Munich.

Krauss-Maffei maintained good and close relationship to Baldwin in Philadelphia. Between 1850 and 1880 exchanges of both compa-nie's experiences were madę. Therefore it was quite logie that the Royal Bavarian Railroad purchased several of the latest Baldwin loco-motives to have them tested on the Bavarian railroad-tracks. The Baldwin locomotives where examined in detail by the engineers Anton Hammel (Maffei), Heinrich Leppla and von Hemhholtz (both Krauss) who also compared the Baldwin locomotives with their own records. They adopted the Vanclain high- and low-pressure cylinders from the american machines and the bar-frame, the latter providing the derid-ing technical advantage. The first locomotives built were the con-struction-ranges S 2/5 and S 3/5. In 1907 Bavarian Railroad ordered a machinę carrying a 4-cylinder hot-steam engine with 3 propelled axles and 3 not-propelled axles (technicab 2 Clh4v / bavarian: S 3/ 6). On June, 16^th 1908 the first S 3/6 left the construction area - with stunning success. TheSe locomotives received lst prizes on any exhi-bition.

After WW1 these machines were confiscated by the allies and ope-rated on their home railroad-tracks. In France the last S 3/6 was taken out of service in 1950.

Later the construction-range S 3/6 got several upgrades and devel-opments. Ali locomotives survived WW2 and were operated by Deutsche Bundesbahn. By the end of 1960 neady all S 3/6 (series k) were taken out of setvice.

Presenred was a S 3/6 (18 505), 1972 given as a loan to Deutsche Gesellschaft fur Eisenbahnfreunde. The society later bought the machinę. The very last S 3/6 (18 508) was taken out of service in July 1962 and put to Lindau-Reutlin. Later it was given to Switzeriand.

Comments to assembly sketches

It is supposed that generał techniques of cardmodel assembly is common to the modeler as well as the necessary tools. Any cardmodel enthusiast must have medium to high skills in cardmodeling to achieve satisfying results assembling CFM-kits. The use of UHU-transparent glue is highly recommended. WARNING: Never use water-based or (so-called) solvent-free glues.

A verbal instruction is added to the assembly-sketches. Refer to attached pages.

We wish you much enjoyment with your model.

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