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LGB 26591 HSB Mallet Steam Locomotive, Road Number 99 5901 w/Lights, Sound and Smoke

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    Purchase LGB 26591 HSB Mallet Steam Locomotive, Road Number 99 5901 w/Lights, Sound and Smoke

    SKU: 26591 LGB 26591 HSB Mallet Steam Locomotive, Road Number 99 5901 w/Lights, Sound and Smoke

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    List: $3900
    $3,799.99
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    New Item for 2024, Expected to Ship late December/Early January
     
    LGB 26591 HSB Steam Locomotive, Road Number 99 5901 w/Lights, Sound and Smoke

    Special Features:
    High-end model in heavy metal construction
    Many separately applied fine details
    Extensive light and sound functions
    Running sounds work in Analog and Digital operation
    Smoke unit with smoke exhaust synchronized with the wheels
    Running gear lights

    This is a model of the steam locomotive, road number 99 5901, for the Harz Narrow Gauge Railways. It is a finely detailed model in heavy metal construction with many separately applied details. The locomotive is driven with two powerful motors and all driving wheelsets are driven using coupling rods. The doors to the cab and smoke box door can be opened. The finely detailed Mallet design running gear has many details such as complete valve gear and a propulsion mechanism for the lubrication pump. The prototypical black/red paint scheme and lettering is for Era VI as the locomotive presently looks on the HSB. The locomotive is equipped with an mfx/DCC decoder with many light and sound functions such as headlights, cab lighting, running gear lights, running sounds, a whistle and a bell activated by reed switches, as well as much more. There is a built-in smoke unit with smoke exhaust synchronized with the wheels as well as cylinder steam and steam exhaust at the whistle when the latter is activated. There are digitally controlled LGB couplers at both ends, and these couplers can be removed. There are sprung buffers.

    Length over the buffers 40 cm / 15-3/4".

    The running sounds will also work in analog operation.

    The Nordhausen-Wernigerode Railroad Company (NWE) placed a series of twelve Mallet locomotives into service between 1897 and 1900, of which nine were built by the firm Jung in Jungenthal and another three were delivered by the Mecklenburg Car Factory Stock Company in Güstrow. These locomotives were very reliable, and with their performance of 255 horsepower and their maximum speed of 30 km/h / 19 mph these 34 metric ton locomotives fulfilled all of the requirements expected of them. However, in World War I six units had to be handed over to the Army Field Railways – they never came back from this service. Another locomotive had to be retired after a serious accident so that the remaining five locomotives were taken over by the DR in 1949 and rostered as road numbers 99 5901 to 99 5905. After new construction locomotives came to the Harz area in the mid-Fifties, the Mallet locomotives went to the Selketal Railroad. Road numbers 99 5904 and 99 5905 were scrapped and the other 3 locomotives remained on the roster. Road numbers 99 5901 and 99 5902 were used for a longer period on the HSB. Presently, these two units – and road number 99 5903 – are in Wernigerode and are no longer operational.

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    $3900 $3,799.99
    Inventory: New Item for 2024, Expected to Ship late December/Early January