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.
Highlights
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".
Digital Functions
| ControlUnit | MobileStation | MobileStation 2 | CentralStation 1/2 | CentralStation 3/2* Mobile Station 2** | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Headlight(s) | * | * | * | * | * |
| Smoke generator | * | * | * | * | * |
| Steam locomotive op. sounds | * | * | * | * | * |
| Locomotive whistle | * | * | * | * | * |
| Direct control | * | * | * | * | * |
| Sound of squealing brakes off | * | * | * | * | |
| Engineers cab lighting | * | * | * | * | |
| Whistle for switching maneuver | * | * | * | * | |
| Sound of coal being shoveled | * | * | * | * | |
| Bell | * | * | * | ||
| Horn blast 1 | * | * | * | ||
| Air Pump | * | * | * | ||
| Letting off Steam | * | * | * | ||
| Water Pump | * | * | * | ||
| Injectors | * | * | * | ||
| Replenishing coal | * | * | * | ||
| Replenishing water | * | ||||
| Replenishing sand | * | ||||
| Rail Joints | * | ||||
| Sanding | * | ||||
| Grade crossing | * | ||||
| Generator Sounds | * | ||||
| Safety Valve | * | ||||
| "Switcher Double ""A"" Light" | * |
* New features of the Central Station 2 (Part No. 60213, 60214 or 60215) with the software update 4.2
** New features of the Mobile Station 2 (Part No. 60657/66955) with the Software Update 3.55
