Product Features and Details
Model: The locomotive is equipped with a load controlled smoke generator, comprehensive sensor system for triggering sound effects appropriate to various scenarios such as running over turnouts or through sharp curves, a specially adapted LokSound decoder with two speakers and a PowerPack assuring trouble-free, smooth running even on dirty track or complex yard ladders. Complete lighting including cab lighting, driver´s cab-control panel and appropriate lighting for shunting mode with warm white LEDs rounds of the outstanding technical features. All this results in the same level of ESU quality you have come to expect and appreciate from our digital products.
Chassis and body are made of high quality metal and assure due to their weight of about 500 grams prototypical pulling power. In case you wish to run your model without traction tires we have added suitable spare wheel sets to the 2-rail units.
Set into the chassis is a powerful five pole skewed wound precision motor with optimised “silent” commutator – developed by ESU. This provides power tamed by two flywheels via a combination of worm gear / helical gear box to four of the four axles (3-rail version: three axles).
Of course, you will find all prototypical variations between the models of the different production series between the two class 218 models and the models of class 215 and 225. Thus the 218 235 in the original red livery has the prototypical radiators type Kuckuck on the roof where the 218 102 from the first series only has a simple hatch. The perforated brake leverage adjusters of the 218 235 are a feast for your eyes, which have been removed on the 218 102 in 2003. Well, you can see that ESU diesel locomotives are realistic replicas of the prototype down to the smallest detail.
Locomotive can be used on 2-rail or 3-rail track.
