Product Features and Details
Model Details:
- Brake shoes in wheel plane
- Bogie with three-point support
- Extra mounted handrails and steps
- Separately mounted axle brake rod
- Extra mounted brake system
- Metal wheels
- Constructive consideration of the varying details between the Hbis 297 and Hbis 299, e.g. automatic load change
The design of the Tbis 869 sliding roof carriages was revised from 1966. While the carriages built previously had an appearance similar to the Tbis 870 - differing from it in the form of the undercarriage designed for central buffer coupling - the new carriages with the designation B were immediately recognizable from the much narrower centre column. Furthermore, the sliding roofs were now operated from the ground. Up to 1975,1.100 carriages of this type were built, and the last ones were taken out of service in 2006. Another 800 carriages of the same type were built from 1970 – 1972. They had a brake system that enabled speeds of 120km/h, and were therefore designated Tbis 875. DB AG bought another 790 carriages, but rapidly reduced its inventory by 2008 down to 25 carriages, which were decommissioned shortly afterward.
