LGB 23892 Sumpter Valley Mallet Heavy Steam Loco, Sound **Expected May 2012**

Sumpter Valley Mallet Heavy Steam Locomotive.
Built in the 1920s the company two modern Baldwin Mallet locomotives on behalf of the Uintah Railway in Utah and Colorado. To date, these locomotives to none, the largest narrow-gauge locomotives that ever drove in the USA. When the Uintah Railway was shut down, came the two crowd-pulling Mallets for Sumpter Valley Railway, which served in Eastern Oregon for the transport of agricultural and forestry goods. The locomotives were fitted with trailing respondents, and soon provided a significant part of transportation in this very beautiful scenic area. However, the Sumpter Valley was finally shut down. The two mallets were sold to the International Railway of Central America in Guatemala, where they have had in the 1960s in operation. The richly detailed, weatherproof model is the second machine with number "251" after. It has the following features: - four mode switch - two sealed gearbox with seven-pole Bühler motors - six driven wheels - two traction tires - twelve power consumers - digital electronic sound - steam output synchronously with the wheel rotation - bell and whistle - brake noise - air pump, valve and hissing of the steam - sound of the water jet pump - Volume control - remote control of sound functions (with Train System) - voltage system - steam generator - flickering light from the fire box - automatic directional lighting - multi-socket with weight of 5,300 g. Length cm above buffer 94th Smoke generator, onboard-equipped with MTS Decoder, lighting and sound.