USA Loco "Grasshopper" - assembled model

With powerfull mini steam engine "Andreas", 2 cylinder oscillating, gas heated with lighter gas. Made of stably metals. Running time 15 min, the wheels are insolated. Steering by hand or remote controlled with an upgrading "driving-regulation".More available upgrades: Pressure gauge und Gas-Pressure-Adjusment valve..Lenght x width x height: 200x 65 x125 mmrunning time: 15,00 minpainted ready to run modelAfter the "York" has won a competition, the owners of the "Baltimore & Ohio Rail Road Co." ordered 18 further locomotions from the producer "Grillingham & Winans". Because of the strangely appearance with vertical boiler, vertical cylinders and silt formed push rods the locomotion got the nickname "Grasshopper" soon. On 24. August 1835 a Grasshopper carried the first train to Washington. Under the name "Columbus" 1836 the company "G.&W." built a "Grasshopper" for the "Leipzig-Dresdener Eisenbahn" the first locomotion that was exported from America to Germany.