My fiancee and I saw these trains on a display shelf in Ridge Road Station this weekend. I forgot to ask until we got home, which is now hours away. Are they LGB Orient express cars, or LGB Glacier Express cars? We both thought that it was a beautiful train. I don’t think I saw the cars in the most recent LGB catalog.
Links to the pictures of the cars are below.
http://rides.webshots.com/photo/2404027820062038082HTsaKc
http://rides.webshots.com/photo/2425009350062038082CKDyWF
Thanks for any information on this blue train.
Scooter;
That blue train was a special edition but i know not a lot about ir, i nearly bought a set second hand a few years ago but was talked out of it as it had been in a public exhibition for years. But i am pretty certain it is part of the LGB Orient express series.
The other three carriages are very similar to my Golden Mountain (not as ornate though) which were the second last in the Orient express series. The are absolutely the classiest rolling stock i have ever seen and the internal fittings and lighting are in a league of their own. If you look to the left at the top of the carriage you will see a pipe sticking up, well this is the stink pipe for the toilet.
Rgds Ian
Ian, I thought you would be the one to reply, as you know so much about LGB. Thanks for the information. I wonder how much the set is selling for.
That is really great detail when they even make the stink pipe!
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Yes and the toilet has a lift up seat, the seating and fittings internally are way beyond anything anyone else has that i have seen, paid A$800 each carriage for them wheni was in the work force. Even the windows are like little bay windows, with individual panes offset into them.
Rgds Ian
I will try to get a photo in.
That is awsome detail!!!
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Ian, do you have the numbers for the cars that you have. Not the road numbers, but the LGB stock numbers? I want to do more research to see how many are out there, and the numbers would be a good starting point.
32658, there i wrote it down before i forgot it.
I have a matching baggage car 40840, which i have never been happy with and i can’t say why.
I also have a blue glacier crocodile and it will just pull the 3 carriages up an R2 curve 4 % grade; if i had a lot more money than i have i would get 2 more of those carriages and another blue crocodile and that would be a mighty train, incredibly expensive but mighty.
Somewhere there is a list of all the Orient Express units bought out by LGB and the Golden Mountain was the 2nd last one. I have seen it but can’t remember when or how.
Rgds ian
The last set produced was the CCE , in a brown shade , they are beautiful cars , inside and out , with passengers and working tail lanterns on this set .
Are you sure those tail lights are original? they are not any standard European, that i know of1 I don’t like them they look too grose to me!
Rgds Ian
Why am I not surprized [:o)]
They came from LGB mounted on the car .They really look good at night .
But if you really do not like them I may take them off [;)]
I wouldn’t be bothered mate, i live a long way away and it does’nt trouble me much, however thanks for the interest in my well being.
Rgds Ian
I think the lights look a little strange during the day, but I bet they look smashing at night. I think I like the blue and cream scheme better than the brown, but both are certainly attractive. I could probably pick up a cheap 3000 series coach and paint it blue and cream, and then line it myself in Gold. At $800 a car (then, and probably more now), it cannot hurt to try it!
By saying those tail lights weren’t to my liking i didn’t mean they wqere ugly or naything rude like that, nmore i think they don’t look very European; would be surpriced if the came from LGB in Nuremberg.
I didn’t mind the brown livery at all, they both look very nice. Look an ebay you should pick them up for a few hundred each and there is a salon and dining car as well, i think.
Rgds Ian