Product Features and Details
Prototype: 6 different German Federal Railroad (DB) freight cars of different types. 2 type F-v-51 (later Ommi 51) dump cars with hand brakes and brakeman's platforms. 2 type F-z-51 (later Ommi 51) dump cars without hand brakes and without brakeman's platforms. 1 type Gms 30 boxcar, welded design (former type Gs "Oppeln"), with a short frame, without hand brakes and without brakeman's platforms. 1 acid transport car with a hand brake and a brakeman's platform. One privately owned car painted and lettered for VTG, Vereinigte Tanklager und Transportmittel GmbH, Hamburg / United Tank Farm and Transport Service, Inc, Hamburg, Germany. The cars look as they did around 1962.
Model: The dump cars are finely detailed with partially open frames, separately applied track tongs, and separately applied dump hoppers. The cars have either a separately applied brakeman's platform or no brakeman's platform. All of the dump cars have different car numbers. The hoppers are loaded with real scale sized ballast. The "Oppeln" design boxcar has a short frame. The acid transport car has finely detailed frame pieces for holding the acid containers in place. Total length over the buffers 63.5 cm / 25". DC wheel set for each freight car 2 x 700580.
Highlights:
- Dump cars are completely new tooling.
- Very finely detailed construction.
- Separately applied track tongs on the car frame.
- All of the cars have different car numbers.
- Ideal cars for the class 50.40 freight train steam locomotive (Insider model for 2011).
The 46350 dump car set is being produced in 2011 in a one-time series only for Insider members.
