LGB 21761 Stadtbahn steam Loco

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Hi all,
I've been out and about yet again to one of the local toy fairs and made the following purchase, LGB 21761 Spremberg Stadtbahn Steam Loco made in West Germany. Loco is boxed and as new (bottle of smoke oil), no sign of having been used on track also DCC ready . Bought for £90 and got dealer to throw in 2 pieces of LGB 300mm track (used).
My usual questions, are there any pit falls with this model, smoke unit OK , pulling power, pick ups' from track etc ?
Bought it because I liked the look of it and it will fit nicely into a small garden layout (hopefully sometime in the new year, weather permitting).

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I have one in black and am perfectly happy with it. Smoke unit will make you happy. Pulling power suprisingly good for a small loco like this. Holding it in your hand it feels lighter than a Stainz, but still pulls well. I run battery power now, but when I ran track power I had no issues with power pickup. You will be very happy with this loco.
 
I have several of the older versions the 2075 or the 2076, also some of the battery versions that came in the toy sets
 
I have a digital black version and have removed the funnel in the top of the smoke stack to improve smoke generation. Also added a bit of weight which improved pulling power quite a lot. Later on I had to remove the weights when I installed a LGB sound unit due to space limitations - the LGB unit is very large and I would now rather have installed a Massoth S-decoder.
 
T'is a fine little loco. Runs over dead frogs in pointwork pretty well and pulls OK, A little extra weight will be fine.
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Congratulations on your purchase, I have always admired the green liveried examples. I have yet to add the extra weight to mine , as a result she struggles to manage more than a couple of vans up my 1 in 35 ish gradient.

I wish Ian S would stop tormenting us with his fantastically weathered example:love:
 
Good little loco good price to there was one for sale at the Essex indoor meeting yesterday priced at £140.00 so all in all you have got yourself a good deal
 
ive got that one!!!-dcc ready sez mine on the box
i agree, add a bit of weight-but dont overdo it-4-8-10ozs or the like-otherwise they slip a good deal
mine doesnt smoke nearly as well as my older 2076 -and i always remove those smoke guard funnels-they arent the problem

imho theres something in the dcc ready components/board that effects the voltage level to the smoker-(had this in a DCC ready zillertall as well-_ and it not the smoker, as ive swapped it a few times-and works great in other locos and just barely wifts in my green 21761 -it will smoke its best (which is still pathetically imho) with 6-7 drops max-this seems to allow the limited heat in the element to vaporize the oil

otherwise as steady and rugged as a stainz
 
A lovely little locomotive. I fitted mine with a type 1 LGB decoder, LGB digital sound unit (65001) plus a capacitor to help with stalling over frogs (analogue mode was required to be disabled on the decoder). The loco runs like a dream. I cannot comment on the smoke unit as I remove these from all my locomotives.
 
Loco said:
Steve, do you know what type of smoke generator you have in your loco (5V, 19V, 24V?). I see that CV56 adjusts the voltage to the F2 terminal (=smoke generator) on LGB decoders. Recommended value is 4 to 5 for a 5V unit, which as far as I can see only will give you 3,75V.

Link: http://www.reutimann-ch.ch/pdf/onboardCV.pdf (german text first, then english)
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5v, as is stock-
no decoder fitted
just my thoughts on something as they came from the factory-the board simply didnt supply quite enough voltage, regardless of track voltage, to the smoker-
 
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