Product Features and Details
Information about the model
In addition to the designs for main line passenger cars, which became known as "Donnerbüchse" (thunderboxes), the DRG (German State Railway) also commissioned plans for a series of "Branch Line Cars 1921." The railway company considered a lower weight compared to the main line cars and a shorter wheelbase for negotiating tight curves to be particularly important. Due to a number of cars deemed sufficient for the next few years and a lack of funds, ultimately only 74 passenger cars and seven baggage cars were built. For the Breslau 511-521 railcars, built from 1926 onwards for use on the electrified Silesian network, a total of 42 of these were converted into trailer cars. They were fitted with electric lighting and heating, if not already present, as well as the necessary control lines. Equipped in this way, up to twelve trailer cars operated together with three railcars, transporting hikers in the summer and skiers in the winter to the heights of the Giant Mountains (Karkonosze). The carriages, originally built as Di-24 and reclassified as Cid-24 after 1928, comprised almost 50% of all standard branch line carriages built, with a total of 40 units. Eleven of them were equipped for electric push-pull operation and ran on the rack railway from 1931 onwards as "Breslau 2926 - Breslau 2930" and "Breslau 2940 - Breslau 2945".
Model details
- Extra bearing caps
- Handlebars made of impact-resistant plastic
- Perfectly fitted windows
- Roof vent added separately
- Detailed underbody with many separately attached parts
- Close coupling kinematics according to NEM standard
- Delicate steps
- Exemplary stage railing and electrical coupling
