Product Features and Details
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Spring buffers
- Free standing handrails
- Mulitpart interior fittings incl. Lighting
- True-to-original corrugated metal wheels
- Metal drive unit
- Illuminated driver´s cab and front light switchable
- Multipart driver´s cab,
- Extra windscreen wiper
After a successful trial with hydrodynamic power transmission in lower-performance railcars, the Deutsche Reichsbahn Gesellschaft (DRG) purchased higher-performance railcars with hydrodynamic gear units for the first time since 1935. Among them were short-coupled vehicles for suburban services in conurbations and metropolitan areas. In addition to 3-piece railcars which were to be used in the Ruhr area and Saarland, 6 twin railcars were ordered for suburban transport in the area of Szczecin, and an additional 10 were ordered later. While the vehicle part of all cars was manufactured by WUMAG in Görlitz, the engines for the first series came from Humboldt-Deutz and DWK, and Voith delivered the gear units. In the second shipment, the engines were manufactured by MAN and Daimler-Benz and the gear units were manufactured by AEG. The completion of all vehicles in the final railcar construction of the Reichsbahn didn't occur until after the beginning of the war. According to the new paint specifications, the DRG no longer received railcars with the two-coloured coat, but rather a very elegant dark red with bright pinstripes. All the VT 137 "Stettin" railcars had multiple traction capable control, equipped with the RZA multiple-unit control, type 1936. Moreover, 16 control cars with a mail compartment were procured for use with them at Lindner in Ammendorf. The Wittenberge repair depot was responsible for their maintenance. After the end of civilian operation due to the rationing of liquid fuels, the VT railcars were now available to the Wehrmacht. It used them only as a reserve and kept the railcars in Wittenberg, Jädickendorf and Bütow. The VT 137 327 had already burned out in 1944 and was no longer in the inventory. After the end of the war, railcars were in the Soviet occupation zone and in the British. Of the two missing VT 137 330 and 372, 137 372 was discovered with the SD, and the other was never found.
