LGB 20821 Aster West Side Lumber, Wood Case, Collection Item
Number 456 of 500
Top of wood box has some blemishes (see additional images) otherwise excellent condition.
The Model
This special Limited Edition model has been handcrafted for Ernst Paul Lehmann Patentwerk by Aster Hobby, one of the world's most respected makers of metal model trains. Production of this LGB/Aster locomotive was limited to 500 models worldwide.
Features:
- All-Metal contstruction and detailing
- Complete cab interior with individual guages, valves and levers
- Prototypical cab body with complete rivet detailing
- handformed boilder, with authentic domes, piping and handrails
- Authentic pistion mechanism with three steam cylinders, moving crank rods and valve gear
- Working Shay drive with crank shaft, universal joints and geared wheels
- Counterweights for smooth performance
- Twin LGB/Buhler motors powering all twelve wheels
- Power pick-ups on all twelve wheels
- Smoke generator
- Automatic directional front and rear lanterns
- Cab interior lighting
- This model can be equipped with an LGB/Lenz 55020 Multi-Train System Decoder
- Length (without couplers): 666.5 mm ( 26.2 in)
- Weight: 6.78 kg (14.9 lb)
The Prototype:
About a century ago, hundreds of small railroads were built in the mountains of America to help haul timber from the forests to the growing cities of the new nation. These logging lines were rugged, with steep grades, sharp curves and uneven track. Traditional steam locomotives were ill suited to these lines, because their big drive wheels would slip at the slightest provocation.
The Shay locomotive was a solution to that problem. Instead of a few, big drive wheels, a Shay has many, small drive wheels. Each wheel is connected to vertical steam cylinders by an intricate system of shafts and gears.
This arrangement limits Shays to slow speed operation, but in exchange, Shays could climb 10% grades, round 23 meter (75 foot) radius curves and negotiate poorly laid track.
From 1880 to 1944, the Lima Locomotive Works built more than 2,700 Shays.
The Program:
This model is part of the unequalled LGB program of G scale locomotives, passenter coaches, freight cars, track sections, power supplies and accessories. With this model we highly recommend:
- LGB 40770 Disconnect Logging Trucks
- LGB 41660 West Side Lumber Log Car
