SKU: 26819 LGB 26819 HSB 99 222 Steam Loco w/Lights, Sound and Smoke

LGB 26819 HSB 99 222 Steam Loco w/Lights, Sound and Smoke

LGB congratulates the HSB anniversary with two new models. A 4-axle HSB passenger car with an anniversary banner and the legendary 99 222 steam locomotive will appear as summer novelties in 2024.

A railway across the Harz Mountains was planned as early as the 1860s. However, the projects were not realised due to the difficult route over the mountains and the associated high costs. It was not until 1896 that the Nordhausen-Wernigeroder Eisenbahn-Gesellschaft (NWE) was founded in Berlin. The lines of the Harzquerbahn and Brockenbahn were completed in an incredibly short time. On 27 March 1899, the Mallet steam locomotives, which are still familiar today, opened for service. Celebrate 125 years of the Harzquer and Brockenbahn with us. The "biggest of the small". Exactly 125 years later, on 27 March 2024, two special trains, which were combined into one train in Drei-Annen-Hohne, travelled from Nordhausen and Wernigerode to the highest mountain in northern Germany, the Brocken.

Narrow gauge locomotives were also derived according to the standard design principles from the standardized DRG procurement program for standard gauge steam locomotives at the end of the Twenties. In 1930, Schwartzkopff delivered three units with ten driving wheels as road numbers 99 221-223, which at that time were the most powerful narrow gauge steam locomotives on the. Only road number 99 222 survived the war, and it is still use in approximately the same condition on the HSB.

This is a model of the steam locomotive, road number 99 222, for the Harz Narrow Gauge Railways (HSB) in the same version as the locomotive currently is in use. The paint scheme and lettering are prototypical for Era VI. All five sets of driving wheels are driven from two powerful motors. The locomotive is equipped with an mfx/DCC decoder with many light and sound functions such as headlights that change over with the direction of travel, cab lighting, or running gear lighting that can be controlled separately. There is a whistle and a bell activated by reed switches and that will also work in analog operation. There is a built-in smoke unit with smoke exhaust synchronized with the wheels as well as cylinder steam. There are many separately applied details. The cab is fully detailed, and the doors can be opened. 

A sheet of lettering with modelling of the plaque for the special runs for the 125th anniversary of the Brocken Railroad is included.

Length over the buffers 55 cm / 21-5/8.

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