With the new numbering system still in testing LGB offered the set below with 2 numbers: # 72412 for the USA, advertised in the 1995 USA News brochure and # 70412 for the German/European market. The latter wasn't offered until 1996, in the official LGB main catalog 1996/97 pg.20
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| LGB 70412 - Courtesy of grootspoor.com |
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| LGB 70412 - Courtesy of ebay.com |
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| LGB 70412 - Courtesy of pickclick.de |
Edition volume must have been pretty high since the set is still readily available today. Prices today range between US$ 350.00 and $525.00 depending on condition and completeness of set.
The year 1995 saw an USA exclusive again with the LGB # 25171- or so it was sold...:
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| LGB 25171 - Courtesy of Only Trains |
Alas, it didn't last, the exclusiveness. LGB decided the same year (1996) to sell the "exclusive USA Christmas Train" worldwide. And they even put it in the main catalog LGB 1996/97.
Throughout the years prices stayed on a high level for this loco & motorized tender set: You might see the occasional US$ 390.00 or less but overall prices in the mid $500.00's are common.
Another US special during the time frame 1995/96 was the LGB 72555.
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| LGB 72555- Courtesy of worthpoint.com |
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| LGB 72555 - Courtesy of onlytrains.com |
A very pretty Christmas train set with the 25171 loco, the LGB # 45110 Christmas hinge-hatch gondola and the Christmas caboose LGB #44650. This Christmas train set remained an USA exclusive and prices are varying from US$ 200.00 to US$ 400.00 but have reached US$ 750.00 lately.
+++++++++++++++++to be continued...
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