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 G 10 boxcar with a built-on brakeman's cab. 1 tank car with 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 type G 10 boxcar has sliding doors that can be opened. The tank car has a separately applied brakeman's platform and a ladder going up to the filling platform. It has a reproduction of a partially open car body. Total length over the buffers 63 cm / 24-13/16". DC wheel set for each dump car 2 x 700580, for the boxcar 2 x 700270, for the tank car 2 x 32376004.
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 46351 dump car set is being produced in 2011 in a one-time series only for Insider members.
