Product Features and Details
Prototype: US Shay design Class D gear drive steam locomotive. Version with 4 powered trucks. Drive using crankshafts to articulated shafts and using beveled gears on the trucks. Characteristic boiler offset to the left included. Used mostly on American field and logging railroads on routes with sharp curves and steep grades. Western Maryland Locomotive Number 5. The locomotive looks as it did in the Forties.
Model: The locomotive has an mfx+ digital decoder and extensive sound functions. It also has controlled high-efficiency propulsion with a flywheel in the boiler. All axles in the four trucks on the locomotive and tender are powered using articulated shafts and beveled gears. Traction tires. There is a factory-installed smoke unit. There is one headlight on the locomotive and tender and they change over with the direction of travel. The headlight changeover and the smoke unit work in conventional operation and can be controlled digitally. The cab lighting can also be controlled digitally. Maintenance-free, warm white LEDs are used for the lighting. The locomotive has a buffer capacitor. Point-mounted NEM standard coupler pockets are on the rear of the tender and the front of the locomotive. Minimum radius for operation 360 mm / 14-3/16". There is a locomotive engineer and a fireman in the cab. Length 25.2 cm / 9-7/8"
