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LGB 26450 SOEG Diesel Locomotive 199 018 Ep. VI w/Lights and Sound
This is diesel locomotive 199 018 of the SOEG in the 
current Era VI version. It is a finely detailed model with 
many separately applied parts. The cab doors can be 
opened. Both trucks are powered. The minimum radius for 
operation is R1 / 600 mm / 23-5/8“. The locomotive has an 
mfx/DCC decoder with many light and sound functions and 
there is a factory-installed buffer capacitor. The headlights 
(white) / marker lights (red) change over with the direction 
of travel and can be controlled digitally. The cab has 
interior details and lighting. 
First release of this SOEG diesel locomotive 199 018 from LGB
Length over the buffers 20-1/2" / 52 cm
“Off to the Zittau Mountains.” For over 130 years, 
visitors have been able to discover one of the most 
beautiful regions of Upper Lusatia on a romantic 
narrow-gauge railway. In addition to König Dampf, 
a well-maintained red-beige diesel locomotive has 
also been rumbling along the 750 mm tracks to Oybin 
and Jonsdorf since 2011. It is a little princess next 
to the rustic steam engines that operate most of 
the trains there. With its 700 hp, it even outshines 
its black  colleagues. It was born in 1973 as a rather 
ugly  duckling with the mundane designation L45H. 
The Romanian locomotive factory FAUR produced 
334  machines of this type, mainly for Polish and 
Romanian narrow-gauge railways. Today‘s 199 018 
then served in Transylvania as locomotive 87-0029 
until the turn of the millennium, mostly in poor con
With built-in energy storage
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 dition and plagued by technical problems. In 2010, 
it  finally arrived in Upper Lusatia. The Zittau railway 
workers gave the machine an intensive makeover 
with a more powerful engine, gave it the number 
199 018, and installed video cameras in the front 
lamps so that one locomotive driver is sufficient 
for operation. Due to the high engine front ends, 
the L45H otherwise had to be driven by two people. 
In Zittau, the 199 has long been an indispensable 
part of the inventory. The new LGB model is a similar 
enrichment for every garden railway enthusiast – 
a pretty miniature princess alongside the successful 
LGB steam engines.
Running Sounds also work in Analog operation
 
