Industrial is the new nice and infrastructure

I'd mentioned in my 2013 a brief update that I'd been doing infrastructure of various forms, one part of which was the rolling road.  Well, they finally arrived and very useful they are too...

Friday saw the collection of the latest upgrade/addition although the twin had been done before Christmas.  The is the LGB Spremberger loco, which seems to have been a staple of starter sets (and digital starter sets) for many years now, despite the original currently believed to be rusting away in a warehouse in France.  

I quite like the industrial, squat shortness of the design compared with the Stainz.  

The original ran on the Spremburger Stadtbahn

There's some modern pictures of the Stadtbahn here:

http://www.stillgelegt.de/spremberg/spremberg-1.htm

There's some pictures of the locomotive here:

http://www.drehscheibe-foren.de/foren/read.php?17,3756105

And a nice - but in German Article - here

http://www.ig-hsb.de/hbp/hbp1-4/995001.html

The loco was factory chipped by LGB but no sound.  With the original currently awaiting restoration then there is no dedicated chip and to get away from tthe Stainz and small loco, it was fitted with Massoth 8210120 which is the HSB Fiffi and Pfiffi

LGB do a model of this (e.g. number 22801) which is a 2-6-0 in real life.  

Here's a vido of the real Pfiffi in action on the Harz.  As I'm unlikey to model the Harz in a "realism" sense, then its doubtful that I will ever own one of the LGB models.  The LGB Harz and Rhb stuff that I've seen often has a higher build quality and detail than some other items, presumably because of the demand from collectors and hobbyists.   

The end result is a definate throaty "chuff" sound which I think suits the square and squat Spremberger very well.  The nameplates and renubmering need to be fixed, but that is another blog post as they say.