Product Features and Details
High-speed steam locomotive 18 201, coil-fired of the German State Railway. Drive on two axles of the tender and via cardan shaft on all three locomotive driving axles. Edition model! Form variation! Update! - Prototypical implementation of the design with coal firing - For the first time with PluX16 interface and LED lighting - Trim line with triple tip - Finely-detailed metal wheelsets - Driver’s cab and engine lighting installed, switchable in digital mode - Smoke generator can be retrofitted The Halle Research Institute needed another high-speed steam locomotive to test new passenger coaches in the 1960s. The new engine 18 201 was created from high-speed tender locomotive 61 002 and parts of high-pressure test locomotive H 25 024. The steam generator was a modified new boiler construction of the 22 class with an extended smoke chamber and Giesl ejector. The machine was equipped with a counter-pressure brake to ensure that the speed was maintained precisely when travelling at high speed. Fast travel meant up to 175 km/h, because the 18 201 was initially approved for this maximum speed – later 180 km/h – but of course only forwards.
