LGB ÖBB BoBo 2095

AddictiveBiscuit said:
My BoBo doing some test runs on the short lengths of relaid track, it's one of my favourite locos, they seem rather rare I've noticed..
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Nice video - yes, they are lovely locos..... while they are not really rare in themselves (they were made for a LOOONG time in many different liveries, and I suspect most LGB Euro style fans that have been collecting for a while probably have one or two in their loco stable), you're right in that they don't seem to come up as second-hand sales quite as frequently as some other LGB locos..... maybe people just hang onto them because they are so nice!

They haven't been made since the last orange-with-cream-roof version around 2005-6, so I guess the design is quite overdue for M/LGB revamping it and releasing a new version - I think a new one would be very popular.
I have two at the moment, both old types with metal side rods - an all-red one (clamshell gearboxes, now rewired for DCC with a Massoth XLS) and the red-body-with-white-band (sandwich gearbox and early factory DCC/sound installation); I had the late-model orange one too but sold it a couple of years back; would quite like one of the red-and-cream type that you've got there if I ever see a good one up for grabs!

Jon.
 
I got mine off Ebay and I was sold a pup, total wreck (buyer beware) but Phil Saint of this parish put it right for me , top man.

Only pic I can find but it is a red and cream early one, chipped by Phil

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Whizzy cranks - nice

I do whizzy cranks, but with a slightly larger, uglier loco :D:D:D
 
My Whizzy Cranks acquired a couple of weeks ago now, analogue with sound, still awaiting chipping. I love it. This end has a step missing next to the buffer which I need to fabricate and fit.

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David
 
David1226 said:
My Whizzy Cranks acquired a couple of weeks ago now, analogue with sound, still awaiting chipping. I love it. This end has a step missing next to the buffer which I need to fabricate and fit.

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Exactly the same model that I have, David - though mine is still in pieces awaiting reassembly after having two new motors fitted - I bought it dirt-cheap as a non-runner, so still worked out well.... mine has what appears to be a factory-installed DCC setup of two old 55021 decoders and a separate digital sound board which I strongly suspect (given its age) may be serial only. Still trying to decide whether to stick with the serial sound board and just fit an XL, or strip it all out and simply put an XLS in it.

Jon.
 
XLS - you know you want to.
 
stockers said:
XLS - you know you want to.
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Yeah, I know, but I'd have to buy one specially, and it's already got the sound board in it (I could live with the serial function control) and I have a spare XL lying around doing nothing.....

Life is nothing but decisions, isn't it? ;)

Jon.
 
Zerogee said:
Already got that colour scheme, Giz - if it had been a red/cream I might have gone for it... ;-)
Would make a very nice purchase for someone though, the price is fair I think.

Jon.
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grootspoor have a read and cream one, actually a 2096 S (analog + sound)
https://www.grootspoor.com/lgb-2096-s-b-b-drehgestel-diesellok-obb-reihe-2374
Bit pricey for me.
They also have a weird kit-bashed 2095 for €129 !
https://www.grootspoor.com/lgb-2095-obb-b-b-drehgestellok-2095-476
All red model but at that price you could take the risk and repaint it.
They've stuck a pantograph on top so some work to restore to reality.
 
idlemarvel said:
grootspoor have a read and cream one, actually a 2096 S (analog + sound)
https://www.grootspoor.com/lgb-2096-s-b-b-drehgestel-diesellok-obb-reihe-2374
Bit pricey for me.
They also have a weird kit-bashed 2095 for €129 !
https://www.grootspoor.com/lgb-2095-obb-b-b-drehgestellok-2095-476
All red model but at that price you could take the risk and repaint it.
They've stuck a pantograph on top so some work to restore to reality.
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That "bashed" one with the pantograph is really odd..... and you're right that the red/cream model is a bit overpriced - yes, it has sound, but given its age it is going to have the early analogue sound board, a huge PCB that fills up most of the inside of the loco covered with discrete components, not an IC "chip" in sight! It will have a very basic synthesized engine sound (kind of the diesel equivalent of the Stainz "sandpaper chuff", but worse!) plus a rudimentary horn noise, and that's it. One for the collector at that price I think!

Jon.
 
Zerogee said:
That "bashed" one with the pantograph is really odd..... and you're right that the red/cream model is a bit overpriced - yes, it has sound, but given its age it is going to have the early analogue sound board, a huge PCB that fills up most of the inside of the loco covered with discrete components, not an IC "chip" in sight! It will have a very basic synthesized engine sound (kind of the diesel equivalent of the Stainz "sandpaper chuff", but worse!) plus a rudimentary horn noise, and that's it. One for the collector at that price I think!

Jon.
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the DC sound isn't that bad.. I really like the sounds for mine it must be at least 30 years old as well.
 
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AddictiveBiscuit said:
the DC sound isn't that bad.. I really like the sounds for mine it must be at least 30 years old as well.
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yes, I also like the sound of my 2096S which dates back to early 1980s.
The engine noise powers up and down with the controller. sounds like a 2 cycle diesel, so a fast noise- which is what I understand the prototype locos were fitted with.

A bit off-topic, but you should hear a GM powered 2cycle V16 loco at 70mph through the Australian night!
 
Tas devil said:
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yes, I also like the sound of my 2096S which dates back to early 1980s.
The engine noise powers up and down with the controller. sounds like a 2 cycle diesel, so a fast noise- which is what I understand the prototype locos were fitted with.

A bit off-topic, but you should hear a GM powered 2cycle V16 loco at 70mph through the Australian night!
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I too am extremely pleased with the analogue sound on my loco, I doubt that it could be bettered by the unnecessary cost of replacing it with a newer digital sound card, it would certainly not be a cost effective upgrade. Sometimes older is better (so I tell my wife).

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David
 
It's fine...serial mode only not parallel
In digital. But nothing wrong with that
 
David1226 said:
I too am extremely pleased with the analogue sound on my loco, I doubt that it could be bettered by the unnecessary cost of replacing it with a newer digital sound card, it would certainly not be a cost effective upgrade. Sometimes older is better (so I tell my wife).

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If that's a pic of your 2095, David, then you've almost certainly got a digital sound board in it already! That's the same model I have, dating from the early years of MTS/DCC (late 1990s/early 2000s) and it is most likely fitted with a digital sound board (a square PCB about 2" x 2") that runs on analogue DC but can also be controlled by DCC (though with serial commands only) if the loco is chipped. The board in the much older red/cream 2096S is a massive and much more primitive thing, without any integrated circuits on it - just a huge mass of discrete transistors and other components to produce the basic pop-pop-pop diesel sound. I was probably being a little unfair to it in my earlier post, it's not an unpleasant sound and it was "state of the art" at the time it was made; I think it was a contemporary of the early 2-6-2 with a similar sound board and a mechanical bell!

Jon.
 
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