Gauge G - Article No. 33350

SOEG Gondola with Sound

SOEG Gondola with Sound
Article No. 33350
Gauge G
Era VI
Kind Passenger Cars
Article not produced anymore.

Highlights

  • Music band and sound included.

Product description

This is a model of an SOEG gondola with a band as it was used in the prototype in Saxony. The paint and lettering are prototypical for Era VI. The car has a built-in mfx/DCC decoder that can be used in digital operation to control different light and sound functions. A micro SD card with different pieces of music is included. Function buttons on a digital controller can be used to playback music and sounds, and adjust the volume. The music and sounds can be supplemented or swapped out, as you desire. The micro SD card must be removed to do this. A conversion program is already stored on the micro SD card. A card reader is not included with this car. Please pay attention to the instructions for use. The music group is permanently installed. The car has metal wheelsets. Length 49 cm / 19-5/16".

Publications

- New items brochure 2017 - Catalog 2017 - Catalog 2019 - Catalog 2018

Prototype information

LGB 33350 – SOEG Gondola with a Band The Saxon-Oberlausitz Railroad Company LLC (SOEG) offers so-called music trains on its narrow-gauge lines from Zittau to Oybin and Jonsdorf using the slogan "With Dixieland through the Zittau Mountains." They usually run once a month in good weather during the high season with a Dixieland band playing lively jazz music in a gondola. This type OO band car, car number 97-23-19, was built in 1919 by the Busch Car Company in Bautzen. Originally, only two-axle gondolas were used on the Saxon narrow gauge railways. To increase load capacity, the Saxon State Railways started purchasing cars with trucks in 1899. The type OOw four-axle units now had a load capacity of 10 metric tons. However, all too quickly this type was not enough to meet requirements. In 1913, four-axle gondolas with trucks began to be built as the type OO with 15 metric ton load capacity. Car builders in Werdau, Bautzen, and Görlitz built these cars. By 1922, 342 of these gondolas had been built. In 1938, Linke-Hofmann-Busch (LHB) in Bautzen was alone delivering the last 15 four-axle cars as the type OO. They had an improved frame, a brakeman's platform, modern standard design trucks, and 4 instead of 2 loading doors. However, purchases of this car type ended. Car number 97-23-19 comes from a series of 142 cars put into service after World War I from 1918 to 1922. In the prototype, the band car is 10,220 mm / 33 feet 6 inches long and 1,926 mm / 76 inches wide. This provides a load surface 9.48 meters / 30 feet 10 inches long and 1.85 meters / 6 feet wide that translates into a floor surface of 17.5 square meters / 188.37 square feet. This square footage allows enough space for a band. The pivot spacing between the Saxon archbar trucks is 6,700 mm / 263-3/4 inches. The 1,050 mm / 41-5/16-inch-high side walls of wooden boards offer safety to the musicians and ensures nothing stands in the way of undisturbed musical enjoyment.

Features

$ New item
6 Era 6
H Digital decoder with up to 32 digitally controlled functions. The quantity depends on the controller being used.
K DCC decoder
E With lighting
F Sound
G Adults only

Warning

ATTENTION: adults only