LGB 22842 Steam Loco Saxonian IV K w/Lights, Sound and Smoke, Collection Item
Features:
This deailed replica features:
- Weather-resistant construction
- Factory-installed onboard decoder for MTS and analog operation
- Four-way power control switch
- Two protected gearboxes with seven-pole Buhler motors
- Eight powered wheels
- One traction tire
- Twelve power pickups
- Digital electronic sound
- syncronized steam chuffs
- bell and whistle
- brake sounds
- safety valve and steam sounds
- coal shoveling sound
- volume control
- remote control of sound features (with MTS system)
- voltage stabilization circuit
- smoke generator
- automatic directional lanterns
- one multi-purpose socket with circuit breaker
Length 475 mm (18.7 inches)
weight 3650 g (8 lbs)
The prototype:
The Koniglich Sachsischen Staatseisenbahnen (Royal Saxonian State Railways) operated more than 150 km (94 miles) of 750 mm tracks to reach the mountainous industrial regions of Saxonia in central Germany. First attempts with articulated Fairlie and Klose locomotives failed, buth the Meyer locomotives were a great success. Starting in 1892, 96 of these unusual locomotives were purchased, making them the largest class of Meyer locomotives ever built. Both drivetrains are articulated, with the exhaust of the rear high pressure cylinders poering the front drivetrain. After the Saxonian railways were incorporated into the Deutsche Reichsbahn, the locomotives were used on the other narrrow gauge lines, too, for example, on the Baltic Island of Rugen. In the 1950s, 22 of the locomotive were rebuild extensively at the Gorlitz shops, where they received new boilers, frames and cylinders. Today, some of these unusual locomotives operate on museum railways.
