LGB History -1968 and 1969 -- Part II

The following is a translation of an article/internet posting by IIm-online Nachrichten(News).  H.-Jürgen Neumann, the publisher of these News, gave Yours Truly permission for translation of these series of postings. In case you like to check the original German version please go to http://www.lgb-much.de/20306.pdf.

.....the axle bearings need a drop of oil once in a very long while. We can operate our LGB locos outdoors any time of the year - rain and snow doesn't harm them. We have to take them in overnight, though.
The chassis of the small loco (Stainz) was available as a spare part as well. We show you this now very rare part in the photo below The Heuler - motor alignment is clearly visible.

The first LGB product line displays three coaches and three freight cars in addition to the three small locos.
The coaches are the brown Bci 113 of the Lower Austrian Railway (LGB # 3000) and the green A 48 of the Salzkammergut local line (LGB # 3010). While the brown one displays timber plank a clerestory is the focal point of the LGB # 3010.

clockwise from top: LGB 3000, made 1968. LGB 3010, made 1968. LGB 3020, made 1968. LGB 3019, made 1969. LGB 3020, made 1969.

From top: LGB 4000, LGB 4001, LGB 4010,
 LGB 4011, LGB 4020, LGB 4021 - all made in 1968

Offered also is a baggage car LGB # 3020 as the green Pw 274 of the Pinzgau local line. As a 'workaround' until production was finalized on this item, LGB offered a compact freight car in green, LGB# 4030 that was sold as a baggage car. A sibling car was the LGB 3019, manufactured from 1969 on sporting a three-center curve roof following the Zillertal line archetype.
Regarding freight cars the product line included the platform car Prd 3351 of the Salzkammergut local line (LGB 4000, in black) and a color variation LGB 4001 in gray. Then they had the flat car (or gondola) Nwr 4101 of the Salzkammergut local line (LGB# 4010, brown) and the LGB 4011, the green sibling car. Sporting another a high toy value : the open freight car Ow 368 of the Härtsfeldbahn, LGB 4020,brown; and the LGB # 4021 in green.
Unlike these days the cars didn't display signage according to their archetypes. The coaches had the LGB logo on the side - LGB still needed to put its name on the map!
Then came the (first) boxcar the G 40 of the Salzkammergut local line (LGB 4030, brown) and the Gmag 501 of the Zillertal line in white for magnesium transports (LGB# 4031). Signage on the doors differed - Magnesia or Magnesium. The white box (car), by the way, easily turned yellow  under UV/ sun light influence and became unsightly. The one shown in the photo lived all its life in the LGB box and is still in "virgin" shape, innocent white.
The petrol tank car shown in the very first catalog wasn't delivered until 1969.

++++++++++++++++++ to be continued................................