LGB tains! The Large scale train for Garden railways, under the tree and for just plain fun!

Products to capture the interest of every railroading enthusiast!

Peanuts starter train

LGB, The world's first "G-Scale" train. was born in 1968. But the family history of LGB goes back a long way to 1881, when Ernst Paul Lehmann founded a small toy-making company in Brandenburg, Germany.

Lehmann had a keen eye for new ideas and his "patent" toys, like the honking Tut Tut auto and slying Ikarus airplane soon gave "Ernst Paul Lehmann Patenwerk" a worldwide reputation for toy innovation. Lehmann's cousin, Johannes Richter, joined the company in 1921 and build on Lehmann's reputatin with patented toys like the ingenious Skiroff skier. After the East German government seized the company in 1948, Richter moved his family and the family firm to Nurnburg in the West. Then, 20 years later, Richter's sons, Eberhard and Wolfgang, introduced the family's boldest invention: LGB- The Big Train.

Today, Ernst Paul Lehmann Patenwerk is still family owned, with Eberhard and Wolfgang's sons, Johannes and Rolf, at the helm. The LGB family also includes the many dedicated employees at Lehmann's home in Nurnburg and at LGB of America in San Diego, California. They craft the trains using the latest in computer aided design, precision machining processes and robotic production techniques.

Together the family has century of experience creating innovative products and serving demanding customers like you. That is the reason they are the best selling big trains in the world.

Pick up the train

A Z-Scale passenger car weighs less that 1 oz.(7 grams)
An HO-Sclae passenger car weighs about 6 ounces (170 grams)
But a LGB Streamline passenger car weighs more than 4 1/2 ounces(2100 grams)! This weight comes from the larger size and stronger materials of the G-Scale LGB trains.

These trains are real replicas of real trains. We don't just work from pictures or copy other models. The researchers travel around the world to measure the world's greatest trains, capture their finest detail and record the actual sounds. So you get a real model railroad...not just a toy train.