NOW SOLD!
Another day, another essay-length “For Sale” posting….!
I’m continuing the thinning out of my collection by moving on some of the “oddities” that I’ve acquired over the years, so that I can concentrate on my core interests of Harz/Saxon/Austrian stuff.
Up for sale this time is what I believe to be a unique, hand-built loco; the body is brass and steel, around a massive steel pipe boiler, and it runs on a pair of 6-wheel LGB power units that appear to be the cut-down chassis of two U-class 0-6-2 locos.
The design is patterned on the huge Meyer articulated locos built by Kitson in Leeds for hauling immense nitrate trains in the Andes mountains in Chile - I don’t think it’s an exact scale copy of a single specific loco (though I could be wrong), but it certainly captures the overall look of the prototypes.
Although this is a loco that was used in South America, being British-designed and built I don’t think it would look out of place on many British-style garden lines!
I bought it second-hand many years ago, in a rather dodgy electrical state, in analogue form with the whole of brass body acting as a common return for the motor wiring.
I stripped both power units off the model, re-wired them for DCC and isolated everything from the body, then rebuilt it with both units wired to a Massoth XLS sound decoder and speaker mounted in the rear bunker (under a dummy coal load). The decoder sound files are those used on the LGB 0-6-0+0-6-0 Mallet, and work just fine for this loco.
At present the head and tail lamps - which were originally run from a PP3 battery I think - are NOT connected to the decoder because I never got around to it, but this would be a very simple job for someone to complete. Each power bogie unit now has a 4-way plug and socket connection to the wiring loom so that they may be easily removed for servicing if necessary.
There are two G-scale crew in the cab (Preiser, I think?), one with cigar butt and a very natty sun hat - and the cab interior is very well detailed with controls and general gubbins. All four brass-rimmed spectacle glasses swivel!
This is an enormously heavy loco with incredible adhesion and pulling power, just like its prototype - when visiting other lines with it, it has coped with heavy trains up massive gradients that had stopped almost all other locos, even multiple-headed big US diesels.
The loco comes with a very nicely built heavy board storage box, as seen in some of the photos. Given its weight and value, I would much rather it was either collected or delivered by hand than to trust it to a courier, and I would be prepared to travel a reasonable distance either to deliver or to meet halfway for a personal handover; if that is impossible then I would consider shipping, fully insured, at cost - but I’d rather not have to do that. If you’re at all interested, please talk to me and we will see what we can arrange. For collection/meeting purposes, I’m near Colchester in North Essex, just off the A12.
NOW SOLD!
Jon.
Another day, another essay-length “For Sale” posting….!
I’m continuing the thinning out of my collection by moving on some of the “oddities” that I’ve acquired over the years, so that I can concentrate on my core interests of Harz/Saxon/Austrian stuff.
Up for sale this time is what I believe to be a unique, hand-built loco; the body is brass and steel, around a massive steel pipe boiler, and it runs on a pair of 6-wheel LGB power units that appear to be the cut-down chassis of two U-class 0-6-2 locos.
The design is patterned on the huge Meyer articulated locos built by Kitson in Leeds for hauling immense nitrate trains in the Andes mountains in Chile - I don’t think it’s an exact scale copy of a single specific loco (though I could be wrong), but it certainly captures the overall look of the prototypes.
Although this is a loco that was used in South America, being British-designed and built I don’t think it would look out of place on many British-style garden lines!
I bought it second-hand many years ago, in a rather dodgy electrical state, in analogue form with the whole of brass body acting as a common return for the motor wiring.
I stripped both power units off the model, re-wired them for DCC and isolated everything from the body, then rebuilt it with both units wired to a Massoth XLS sound decoder and speaker mounted in the rear bunker (under a dummy coal load). The decoder sound files are those used on the LGB 0-6-0+0-6-0 Mallet, and work just fine for this loco.
At present the head and tail lamps - which were originally run from a PP3 battery I think - are NOT connected to the decoder because I never got around to it, but this would be a very simple job for someone to complete. Each power bogie unit now has a 4-way plug and socket connection to the wiring loom so that they may be easily removed for servicing if necessary.
There are two G-scale crew in the cab (Preiser, I think?), one with cigar butt and a very natty sun hat - and the cab interior is very well detailed with controls and general gubbins. All four brass-rimmed spectacle glasses swivel!
This is an enormously heavy loco with incredible adhesion and pulling power, just like its prototype - when visiting other lines with it, it has coped with heavy trains up massive gradients that had stopped almost all other locos, even multiple-headed big US diesels.
The loco comes with a very nicely built heavy board storage box, as seen in some of the photos. Given its weight and value, I would much rather it was either collected or delivered by hand than to trust it to a courier, and I would be prepared to travel a reasonable distance either to deliver or to meet halfway for a personal handover; if that is impossible then I would consider shipping, fully insured, at cost - but I’d rather not have to do that. If you’re at all interested, please talk to me and we will see what we can arrange. For collection/meeting purposes, I’m near Colchester in North Essex, just off the A12.
NOW SOLD!
Jon.
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