Tender Locomotive of the DRG, class 18.5

The Model: Inset windows. Full interior cab details. Prototypical "daylight" between boiler and chassis. Fully operational, finely detailed Heusinger valve gear. Brake blocks between the wheels and brake blocks on the pony wheels. Cast metal Locomotive wheels and chassis. Working interior valve gear with reproduction of the crank axle. Motor with flywheel. With standard NEM 651 socket to install a decoder. Drive in tender onto 4 wheels with 4 traction tyres. Double headlights at each end, co-ordinated with direction of travel. Close-coupling between Locomotive and tender. Slot-guide mounted bogie at the front of the loco. A fully functional coupling can be mounted in place of the simulated coupling. PROFI-coupling with pre-uncoupling on tender end. Close-coupling mechanism on tender end. Standard NEM 362 coupling socket. Era II.

Based on: The second production batch of the legendary Bavarian S 3/6 locos began in the 1920´s and lasted until 1930/31 with the last 2 locos delivered from Henschel. In the1950´s the DB modernised 30 locos of the class 18.5 to be designated as class 18.6.