SKU: 26450 LGB 26450 SOEG Diesel Locomotive 199 018 Ep. VI w/Lights and Sound

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 36357 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.