Small LGB Rollingstock

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DafyddElvy

1:22.5 & 15mm Scale Trams, , NG Steam Railways
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When I started out in the larger scale I didn't have any plans to use LGB rollingstock until I discovered the Grizzly Flats range, now I have accidentally come across the Field Railway/Feldbahn range.

Now I am wondering what other similar size rollingstock LGB produced that I might find useful, thanks?
 
DafyddElvy said:
When I started out in the larger scale I didn't have any plans to use LGB rollingstock until I discovered the Grizzly Flats range, now I have accidentally come across the Field Railway/Feldbahn range.

Now I am wondering what other similar size rollingstock LGB produced that I might find useful, thanks?
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You could do your own versions of the crane and wine barrel using the flat wagons from me. I have an appropriate sized barrel (beer as it happens) and there is a simple suitable size of crane you could source.
 
I have a fleet of LGB Feldbahn wagons(126). They come in various guises:- Skips, Side door hoppers,Two barrel wagon, Sand hopper,Stake wagon, Freight wagon, Gas wagon. Cable wagon, Girder wagon, Pipe wagon, Crane, Flat bed wagon. There are probably a few more that I haven’t mentioned.
 
DafyddElvy said:
When I started out in the larger scale I didn't have any plans to use LGB rollingstock until I discovered the Grizzly Flats range, now I have accidentally come across the Field Railway/Feldbahn range.

Now I am wondering what other similar size rollingstock LGB produced that I might find useful, thanks?
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Dont forget the Bachmann Lil Haulers. Link to coaches but there are Wagons and Locomotives.
 
Here's a list of the LGB feldbahn wagons. You could try searching for their stock numbers online.

Wagen | LGB Feldbahnen

www.klein-aber-fein.de www.klein-aber-fein.de

You might find a few secondhand ones available - eg
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Rik
 
There are many LGB FRR cars, some with small wheels and others with the larger wheels that come with most LGB freight cars. I have the cars that have 3 pieces of straight track, the same cars also carry orange I beams and others with pipe loads. Hut car, tipper cars, stake cars, cars holding barrels, car with fork lift, car with crane. Also no longer in business was HLW with the kit cars, flat car, tank cars.

Look for the European construction set (used 21990) and it came with girders with the 4 cars, hut, fork lift car, schoema engine circle of track, power supply.
 
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ge_rik said:
Here's a list of the LGB feldbahn wagons. You could try searching for their stock numbers online.

Wagen | LGB Feldbahnen

www.klein-aber-fein.de www.klein-aber-fein.de
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Handy sheet. Just a comment about what the author says about the couplers on the tipper wagons.... you don't have to 'melt a nail' in them to get a shorter couple, LGB actually make a link and pin coupler set that swap straight in to the wagons. Now, the bit about small and large wheels, they both have different chassis. The small wheel ones are strictly "Feldbahn', the larger ones are a mix of 'all sorts', the tipplers being amongst them. If you put 'small' wheels in place of the larger ones, the coupler height will lower, with the trip pin fouling the track (so I swapped over to link and pin couplers). FB looks right at home on R1 track !
 
Gavin Sowry said:
Handy sheet. Just a comment about what the author says about the couplers on the tipper wagons.... you don't have to 'melt a nail' in them to get a shorter couple, LGB actually make a link and pin coupler set that swap straight in to the wagons. Now, the bit about small and large wheels, they both have different chassis. The small wheel ones are strictly "Feldbahn', the larger ones are a mix of 'all sorts', the tipplers being amongst them. If you put 'small' wheels in place of the larger ones, the coupler height will lower, with the trip pin fouling the track (so I swapped over to link and pin couplers). FB looks right at home on R1 track !
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Thanks Gavin,

Handy to know the wagons are already compatible with link and pin couplers which I use, thanks.
 
casey jones snr said:
I have a fleet of LGB Feldbahn wagons(126). They come in various guises:- Skips, Side door hoppers,Two barrel wagon, Sand hopper,Stake wagon, Freight wagon, Gas wagon. Cable wagon, Girder wagon, Pipe wagon, Crane, Flat bed wagon. There are probably a few more that I haven’t mentioned.
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126…very very impressive….

Lessee, more frr wagons:

ridiculous lil ‘coaches’, caboose (coach with cupola), ‘box car’ with one side door open and phony sliding zig zag metal gate..(same as lgb ‘saltstruewagon sp?), grizzly flats style people/ore gondolas, gf style open bench trolley in non GFRR livery , open stake sided flats, solid plank sided flats(an ore car or such), ‘bulkhead’ style end wall only with side stakes(sugar cane cars)…cant think of any others.

Euro frr steam loco variants, chloe variants, closed cab gas/diesel , open cab gas/diesel.

op, these frr/grizzly flats offerings have become scarce and pricey.

i love this series.
suggestion..do not overload or add weight to locos. Old versions with belt, and new version without belt have the motor worm connect only with one drive axel. Thus, that axel gear gets all the wear. To avoid excessive wear, the loco wheels should be able to slip. Personally, i run 3 cars tops. This was a recommendation from lgb of America repair dept.

the new versions(as opposed to the older original belt versions) imho run about the same. The new versions have bronze-ish trim instead a shiny gold…your preference…some trim and parts are very difficult to source, if at all.

fwiw, i recently acquired bachmann davenports, which are chunkier, but more robust (never ever thought id say that about bachmann) and pull great. Not weather worthy, atall.

bought a hlw mighty mack…a nice diminutive loco.
and i bought an NOS mdc big hauler diesel, which is about the same small size as an lgb frr gas/dies.
these latter 2 are weather proof, run really well, and also have simple but long lasting gears and motors. They may be a viable alternative for you.2BE1B3FC-B262-40F7-9B37-242C4BBB34B2.jpeg
 
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Old mdc ’big hustler’, repainted fro orange stock , a really wonderful little loco. Added super bright 5.5v screw in LEDs to this and mack above..crude without an actual lens, but has the blinding brightness of real loco headlights
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Below is an lgb frr caboose.
you might find hlw (hartland locomotive works) items as a substitute.

Trying to provide you with alternatives, for the time,
the hlw offerings tend to be, imho, equal quality, but a bit crude/clunky. In a word, more toyish still than the lgb frr.

in the us, they (hlw) were, and might still be, very inexpensive, with perseverance.


The hlw wagons also use the fuller sized wheels, which gives them a different look. Fwiw, on this side of the pond, i have seen hlw starter sets, with mighty mac and caboose for stupidly low prices, but usually in awful livery, like us army olive drab, etc. repainting and a few details does wonders.
although not pictured here, i have an hlw caboose, and imho i prefer it to the lgb. (Its in another thread by me about cabooses…odd that…see ‘general topic, Lehman Toy Train Caboose repaint’)
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