433 - Lot of model railway books, “Greenberg's Grosser LGB-Almanach”, “Gleisanlagen und Technik”, Magnus

Lot of model railway books, “Greenberg's Grosser LGB-Almanach”, “Gleisanlagen und Technik”, Magnus Collection of five books and booklets on garden railways and gauge 2, 1) “Die Welt der LGB”, large-format catalogue in landscape format, red cover with spiral binding, bilingual German and English, passenger and freight cars with article numbers and colour illustrations, 2) “Greenberg's Grosser LGB-Almanach” by Friedrich Biggeleben 1989, book with white cover and cover photo of two electric locomotives, colour illustrations and variant lists of the LGB models with years, 3) booklet “magnus” with spiral binding and transparent cover, locomotives of “Spurgröße II” in “Maßstab 22,5 - Regelspur 64 mm”, black-and-white illustrations, 4) “LGB-Information”, book with photo cover, marked “0026 N”, 5) “LGB Gleisanlagen und Technik”, book in landscape format with photo cover and the logos “Marke 1881 Lehmann” and “LGB”, coloured track plans, good condition commensurate with age LGB stands for Lehmann-Groß-Bahn, the garden railway of the Nuremberg toy manufacturer Ernst Paul Lehmann Patentwerk. The firm had been founded in 1881 by Ernst Paul Lehmann and Jean Eichner in Brandenburg an der Havel as a factory for tin toys and was rebuilt from 1950 by Johannes Richter in Nuremberg. In 1968 Lehmann introduced the LGB with 45 mm gauge, at a time when model railways were otherwise becoming ever smaller; with the scale 1:22.5 the large-scale railway became the classic garden railway for outdoor operation. In the United States, too, the LGB revived the garden railway and shaped the G scale; in 2007 Märklin took over the brand. The almanac goes back to the American collector's guide “Greenberg's Guide to LGB Trains” by John R. Ottley from 1989, “Die Welt der LGB” is the title of the LGB general catalogues. Such model railway literature serves collectors as a reference work on model variants, track plans and layout construction.