i just got a ziller river valley railway loco No. 2 with red pinstripes! i finally acquired one of my most loved locos available from Lehmann. Here it is a bit dusty but in all its "soot blackened romance"
My first Zillertalbahn 0-6-2
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They are nice especially in black. I have the Grey and green versions. But would love that one. That window will soon go back in & the dust will soon come off. How much did you pay?
That was the first LGB LOCO I ever bought!
It cost me just £54 Brand New in 1976!!
It ran for a couple of years on my very first garden line, but its gears failed! ( the line was 'hilly' and the trains heavy!!)
I wrote to LGB in Germany ( no spares in the UK in those days) and their reply was to send me a big bag of all sorts of gears and axles & wheels no charge with their compliments, there were enough to repair at least a dozen locos.
The loco was repaired and ran fine for some time longer until we moved in '84 and I sold a lot of my G scale intending to move to a different scale at the new address,
Incidentally most of the stuff I sold went to a Mr Adamson, just before he opened his GRS business!!
It cost me just £54 Brand New in 1976!!
It ran for a couple of years on my very first garden line, but its gears failed! ( the line was 'hilly' and the trains heavy!!)
I wrote to LGB in Germany ( no spares in the UK in those days) and their reply was to send me a big bag of all sorts of gears and axles & wheels no charge with their compliments, there were enough to repair at least a dozen locos.
The loco was repaired and ran fine for some time longer until we moved in '84 and I sold a lot of my G scale intending to move to a different scale at the new address,
Incidentally most of the stuff I sold went to a Mr Adamson, just before he opened his GRS business!!
Steve, to be fair to Mr Adamson he did build a lot of railway in his garden I visited it sometime around the 90's before he got into G3 big time. He also converted many things in G to mostly South African Prototypes, so many of the bits that you sold him may have looked very different after he got his hands on them.
JonD
JonD
dunnyrail said:
Oh yes I know fully of Michaels activities!! I wasnt deriding Michael at all in my statement, just stating to where a lot of my early G scale went.
I used to have lots of phone converations with him in the early 80s about garden railways and his Michaelmas Line, his first line was actually Marklin G 1.
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Talking of conversions to SA outline
Do you remember the Actor John Maxwell? He was the GRANDAD in Heinz soup adverts in the 80s he lived near to me in Cheshire, and it was his layout at the Macclesfiled exhibition around '75 that introduced me to LGB! He was into building SA outline locos Garratts etc from LGB Chassis which could be bought over the counter in those days, He visit my line and some of his locos were run there!!
by contrast -i did not fancy or purchase a zillertall until 2 years ago-some 22 years after entry into g scale-i bought a rather late production version decoder ready
the proportions are unique-and odd to my eye because the stack is so far forward-among the other distinctive designs
i also really like the loco (and it runs well with my spreewald and corpets-same geraing speed) -it runs so smoothly -and they have fascinating drive gear
it smokes rather feebly-despite a replacement of the original and un-damaged seuthe unit -
i think this has something to do with the decoder electronics not delivering as much voltage at low speed
the proportions are unique-and odd to my eye because the stack is so far forward-among the other distinctive designs
i also really like the loco (and it runs well with my spreewald and corpets-same geraing speed) -it runs so smoothly -and they have fascinating drive gear
it smokes rather feebly-despite a replacement of the original and un-damaged seuthe unit -
i think this has something to do with the decoder electronics not delivering as much voltage at low speed
Unfortunately, LGB dorked with the cab heights. From 1978-ish on, the odd number units have a unfitting and TALL cab. The 2070D kept the low cab.stevedenver said:
I had a 2171D that I sold off in a couple months, the cab height drove me nuts....
But then Andy (MZB) pointed out, there *may* be a prototype for such things!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QJJn96PgnvY
Also note the JHMD hacked one tank for the air brakes, and the removal of the brake ejector....
I've got a black & a grey example, but the black is my favorite , its the first loco I reach for when i'm not in the mood for , or have time for live steam. I once offered to trade it & another grey one I had for a Corpet , but I am glad it didn't happen now.
Interesting Nigel, thanks for digging up the metre gauge Us. I had heard of these, but it is great to see them.
It is also great to see the prototypes for the anceint Lindberg building kits. I have one for my railway also.
It is also great to see the prototypes for the anceint Lindberg building kits. I have one for my railway also.
I actually think they look better proportioned with the tall cabs- they are my favourite LGB locos.
They are indeed fine locomoives, some of LGBs best. I realy like Minimans locomotive, pretty unique.
minimans said:I like mine so much I made a double Ziller................................
Like that Paul, very unusual
Nice conversion
Then send me all your shorty cabs....please!
The big problem is with the short cab, they look silly around a Stainz, the Stainz is 1:18 or so, while the U is not far off from 1:22.
The real kicker is the bias from owning several H0e versions, so you know "how" they are supposed to look.
But I can see why LGB modified them, they are dwarfed by the 4 wheel coaching stock, but do look better with the 3061/406X stock.
The big problem is with the short cab, they look silly around a Stainz, the Stainz is 1:18 or so, while the U is not far off from 1:22.
The real kicker is the bias from owning several H0e versions, so you know "how" they are supposed to look.
But I can see why LGB modified them, they are dwarfed by the 4 wheel coaching stock, but do look better with the 3061/406X stock.