Modern diesel locomotives dominate the everyday life in goods and shunting traffic. And here of course the distinctive DE 18 from Vossloh should not be missing. The PIKO designers have once again succeeded in using this machine to implement an example with flying colors in the size H0. The result is a model that perfectly reproduces the overall appearance like the features of the DE 18 and has a variety of details, including extremely plastic-looking engravings of the ventilation grille and bogies with excellent optical depth effect. The strong motor with two flywheel masses provides for a smooth running, the traction force is increased by two diagonally arranged traction tires. Together with a digital decoder many prototypical light functions can be switched. The attractive driver's cab and driver's desk lighting is already a good sound in PIKO's new constructions. A modern PluX22-interface is ready for easy retrofitting of a decoder on the clean board.This text is machine translated.