{"id":45797,"date":"2016-04-27T07:18:21","date_gmt":"2016-04-27T07:18:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.erail.gr2\/?post_type=product&#038;p=45797"},"modified":"2026-01-14T15:48:30","modified_gmt":"2026-01-14T13:48:30","slug":"esu-31156","status":"publish","type":"product","link":"https:\/\/www.erail.gr\/en\/shop\/esu-31156\/","title":{"rendered":"ESU 31156"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\u00a0T<span style=\"font-size: 12.1599998474121px; line-height: 1.3em;\">he ESU model of the class 261 corresponds with the series production prototype. The large cab windows allow a clear view of the furnished cab interior decorated in several colours. The long hood has separately applied perforated fan grills. The chassis convinces due to its large number of separately applied pipes and armatures. The handrails are made of etched metal.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>Besides its aesthetic appeal the class 261 is, of course, also convincing in terms of its comprehensive technical package: Amongst others the locomotive is equipped with a separately switched load dependent smoke generator, sensors for triggering situational sounds in curves and when traversing points, a LokSound V4.0M4 decoder with a large speaker and a power storage unit assuring trouble-free uninterrupted running on dirty tracks or longer sets of points. As is the norm for shunting locomotives automatic shunting couplers are installed at both ends. Due to the close coupler kinematics the modeller may enjoy the prototypical close spacing between the locomotive and the cars on the one hand while being able to uncouple the train at any given point on the layout on the other hand. The ESU coupler is compatible with commercially available loop and hook couplers, the M\u00e4rklin\u00ae close coupler as well as the Roco\u00ae universal coupler. Thanks to RailCom Plus\u00ae the locomotive automatically registers with suitable command stations (e.g.: ESU ECoS). Complete lighting including cab interior lights, illuminated driver\u2019s consol as well as shunting headlights and illuminated steps round off the technical features.\u00a0<br \/>The chassis and the housing of the model are made of metal and due to the considerable weight of 350 g facilitate prototypical driving power.\u00a0 A powerful ESU coreless motor sits in the metal chassis.\u00a0 Power is tamed by two flywheels and transferred to the three axles via a combined worm gear and helical gear box. The universal electronics with clip-on centre pick-up and universal wheel sets already proven on other ESU models are also installed on the class 261.\u00a0 The LokSound decoder delivers original sounds of the MTU 8V 4000 R 41 diesel engine. The sounds of the 8-cylinder engines are particularly accentuated due to the perforated fan grills in the long hood.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Diesel class 261 302, North Rail, orange, EP VI, Sound+Smoke, DC\/AC<\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":45798,"template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false},"product_brand":[952],"product_cat":[833],"product_tag":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-45797","1":"product","2":"type-product","3":"status-publish","4":"has-post-thumbnail","6":"product_brand-esu","7":"product_cat-833","9":"first","10":"outofstock","11":"purchasable","12":"product-type-simple"},"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.2 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>ESU 31156 - eRail - Railway modelling<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.erail.gr\/en\/shop\/esu-31156\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"ESU 31156 - 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