This was a Christmas present from my wife in 2010. It is a very smooth performer, one of my best running locomotives. It starts very reliably and can crawl along with the best of them. The DCC install was a very simple plug and play job, once some small screws are located under the tender. The headlights are under powered, it is hard to see the illumination, even in a dark environment. The rear lights are very clear however. I did contemplate opening this up and looking for trouble with the front lights but all the mechanism is in the boiler, (the tender houses the decoder only), so I decided not to press my luck. The parts diagram makes clear that there's an awful lot going on in there. and this is no simple plastic shell diesel body. If you look back a few posts you'll see a silly video I made in which this engine is featured prominently.
The German class 58 was built in 1920, taken out of service in 1953. It does not really belong on my Swiss layout, but it'f of the right period and region so it's not too far off either.
The manufacturer says: Locomotive and tender made of diecast metal. High efficiency motor with flywheel. Close coupling between locomotive and tender. Motor and gear drive in the boiler. Digital connection in tender. 5 axles powered through side rods, 2 traction tires.
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