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Thumbnail Filmstrip of LGB 23105 "Colleague Promotion" Electric Locomotive Number 3 "DOM" (HGe 4/4 II) w/Lights and Sound Images
LGB 23105 "Mitarbeiterwerbung" / "Colleague Promotion" Electric Locomotive Number 3 "DOM" (HGe 4/4 II) w/Lights and Sound
Special Features:
- 2 different, extensively decorated side walls.
- 2 ball bearing mounted motors.
- Genuine rack railroad operation.
- Digitally controlled pantographs.
- Buffer capacitor included.
This is a model of electric locomotive Number 3 "DOM" (class HGe 4/4 II) on the Matterhorn-Gotthard Railroad (MGB) as it currently looks in service. The paint scheme and the lettering are prototypical for Era VI. There is special paint with two different colleague promotions on the side walls of this unit. All 4 wheelsets and two rack gears are driven by two powerful, ball bearing-mounted motors. The locomotive is equipped with an mfx/DCC decoder with many light and sound functions. The pantographs are powered by servo motors and can be controlled digitally. Length over the buffers 67 cm / 26-3/8".
Genuine rack railroad operation is possible with the 10210 LGB rack and the 10220 rack holders to go with it. The maximum grade in rack operation is 12%.
The running sounds will also work in analog operation.
The class HGe 4/4 II is a narrow gauge electric locomotive for rack and
adhesion operation. A first series of 5 locomotives was purchased
starting in 1985 by the Furka-Oberalp Railroad and the SBB for the
narrow gauge Brünig Railroad. These locomotives set new standards with a
performance of 1,932 kilowatts – that corresponds to about 2,600
horsepower and a maximum speed of 100 km / 63 mph and 40 km/h / 25 mph
on rack routes. Since the locomotives turned out so well, additional
units were purchased starting in 1990 so that ultimately the SBB and the
FO each had 8 and the Brig-Visp-Zermatt Railroad had 5 units on their
rosters. These locomotives are still currently in use, on the
Matterhorn-Gotthard Railroad of the earlier FO and BVZ, on the Central
Railroad of the former SBB-Brünig Railroad. As motive power for the
Glacier Express trains on the MGB between Zermatt and Disentis, as well
as the automobile shuttle train on the Furka Tunnel between Oberwald and
Realp, the locomotives are marvelous performers. In recent years, the
MGB has begun to give the locomotives a complete overhaul. In addition
to new electronics, the headlights with LED technology and a new paint
scheme mark external changes to the locomotives. These locomotives will
thus be in service for many more years in the Swiss mountains. MGB
Locomotive Number 3 "DOM" has different colleague promotion on both
sides that has turned this unit into a real attention getter.
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