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LGB had full digital sound on analogue way before digital reared its ugly head. Start up and shutdown / tickover / revs up and down / gearchange or weak fields / air brakes / battery switch / horn or bell .... all by one analogue control knob. 

Now that Marklin have taken them over, the sound is digital only ... proof of which way we are being forced. 

BTW, regarding Class 45 with the connecting doors, D11 to D15 ONLY had these and although the twin box style was continued afterwards, there were no doors on those. As D11 to D15 went through works, not only were the doors taken away, but complete new front ends were fitted with centre split boxes. Annoying because I collect first of class only and to have D11 in twin box style, I need to scribe in the interconnecting doors. Additionally, D11 to D19 also had the long cab handrails but later received the shorter type as fitted to D20 onwards.

Latest allocations of the 2095 fleet: (standard OBB red livery with beige or grey band unless stated)

001 ... in service on Pinzgauerbahn / SLB Renumbered as VS71  (OBB original cream over red nostalgia livery)

002 ... scrapped  (accident - 02 / 07 / 2005)

003 ... scrapped  (accident - 02 / 07 / 2005)

004 ... in service on Pinzgauerbahn / SLB Renumbered as VS72 (dark red livery)

005 … in service on Mariazellerbahn / NOVOG  (OBB original cream over red nostalgia livery) Renumbered as V5 with SGP winged logo plates on cab fronts and NOVOG plates on bodysides.

006 ... in service on Pinzgauerbahn / SLB Renumbered as VS73

007 ... in service on Waldviertalbahn / NOVOG Renumbered as V7 with NOVOG plates on bodysides.

008 ... in service on Pinzgauerbahn / SLB as VS74

009 ... in service on Mariazellerbahn / NOVOG Renumbered as V9 with NOVOG plates on bodysides.

010 ... in service on Mariazellerbahn / NOVOG Renumbered as V10 with NOVOG plates on bodysides.

011 ... sent to Romania for refurbishment and re-engine / NOVOG

012 ... in service on Waldviertalbahn / NOVOG  (OBB jaffa nostalgia livery) Renumbered as V12 with NOVOG plates on bodysides.

013 ... preserved on the Bregenzerwaldbahn / BWB as 2095 013 (OBB jaffa nostalgia livery)

014 ... sent to Romania for refurbishment and re-engine / NOVOG 

015 ... in service on Mariazellerbahn / NOVOG - Renumbered as V15 with NOVOG plates on bodysides.

I have the book "Die Baureihe 2095" from the Bahn im Film website. There is a drawing in colour of the two tone blue and a b&w photo beneath plinthed at Vienna (September 1958) but not in the blue livery. 

I have also been lucky enough to ride behind the 2095's on all but one of the lines ... Bregenzerwaldbahn, Mariazellerbahn, Krumpe, Pinzgauerbahn and Ybbstalbahn. Never got around to the Waldviertalbahn.

My favourite locomotives. I have a small fleet of LGB versions. 

The 2095 is a double cabbed narrow gauge version of the single cabbed standard gauge 2067 and were built by SGP in some cases side by side. 

The first three were prototypes and had a steam heat boiler at No. 2 end. After evaluation, 12 more were built but the steam heat boiler was not required and the radiator was moved to No. 2 end (previously at No. 1 end on the first three). 

Any questions on this class, I'm your man.