LGB 20922 - Courtesy of brasstrains.com |
LGB 20922 original packaging - Courtesy of Only Trains |
Features:
Limited Run - Serial #116 / 600 - C.O.A. Included
Brass Construction
Factory Painted
Complete Cab Interior and individual gauges, valves and levers
Detailed boiler, with authentic domes, piping and handrails
2 seven-pole Buhler motors
Twelve powered wheels
Smoke Generator
Simulated Fire-box fire
Automatic directional front and rear lights
Cab Interior Lighting
Digital Electronic Sounds: synchronized steam chuffs, bell, whistle, brake, steam release, conductor announcement, etc.
Removable coal load
Length: 787mm (31 inches)
Weight: 6300grams (13.8 Lbs)
Information Booklet included
Spare Parts, Couplers, Track Magnets, Smoke Oil all included
Original Wooden Box and Packing Included
The initial price at time of first sale was US$ 3,000.00 (estimated), German DM 5,999.00 and US$ 3,300.00(?) for the digital version. But the US market would soon find the loco so attractive that prices would surge up to US$ 4,500.00. The price would stay high throughout the years.
Surprisingly the LGB advertising for this beautiful engine was again dismal. Besides being presented in the main catalog 2001, pg 79 the only other mentioning was in the "INFO 2001" LGBoA edition. Repeating last year's (2000) mindless 'advertising' LGB lost the 20922 NGG 13 Garratt on page 2 of 4 brochure pages :
page 2 of 4 INFO 2001 brochure - "Find the Garratt...." |
Garratt NG G13 - Courtesy of the "Verein Schinznacher Baumschul Bahn" |
The NG G 13 No 60 in Wales Courtesy of http://www.cambrian-news.co.uk/ |
Originally built in 1927 by the German company HANOMAG for the South African Railway, the Garratt was always built for 600mm narrow gauge - first to haul fruit and cane (sugar) from fields later replaced by Diesel locos. Her engineering design made it possible to work through very tight curves, up to 3% gradients/slopes all the while carrying very heavy loads. Even though the British had the patent on the (Beyer) Garratt South Africa had no inkling to have the British benefit from loco orders after the Boer wars and hence contracted with HANOMAG which changed the British design to the extent that operation tolerated narrow, tight and steep tracks and very heavy loads. But that came at the expense of the engineer and stoker. The cabins were small and eerily overheated by steam turret, vacuum brake ejector and sight-feed lubricator placed inside the cabin. The men sat on movable pin stools so it became a common sight to see a Garratt with their engineers hanging outside the cabins.....
++++++++++++++++++++++++++++to be continued.................................