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Information about the model
The general state of welding technology enabled the German Reichsbahn (DRB) to completely convert its wagon construction to this technique from 1935 onwards. At the same time, the existing riveted baggage cars did not provide sufficient replacements for the aging state railway designs. Against this backdrop, the DRB commissioned the Reichsbahn Central Office for Mechanical Engineering, together with the Linke-Hoffmann-Werke AG wagon factory, to design a fully welded express train baggage car of types 1935, 1936, and 1936a. Twenty of these 21.72-meter-long cars were ordered in the 1935 II vehicle program. Fifty-nine slightly modified cars followed in the 1936 I program. Among them, the 1936a cars were the first vehicles with a streamlined roof canopy. Orders I and II of 1937 comprised 252 carriages, almost identical to those of the 1936a design. This gave the DRB (German State Railway) 331 modern express train baggage cars with a maximum speed of 140 km/h for operational use from 1940 onwards. While the 18 carriages that went to the Deutsche Reichsbahn (German State Railway) underwent virtually no modifications during their later service, the Deutsche Bundesbahn (German Federal Railway) made several adjustments to over 123 carriages. The most noticeable change was certainly the removal of the roof-mounted cab from many of the carriages from the mid-1960s onwards. To ensure the train conductor still had a clear view of the train, an additional window was installed on the right-hand side of the carriage. Furthermore, the dog compartments with their outward-opening doors were gradually phased out, as dogs had been permitted to travel in the compartments since the 1950s. The modern baggage cars of the m-car series gradually replaced the old-style cars of types 36 and 37, so that the last cars were decommissioned in 1984.
Model details
- Metal axle holder
- True-to-scale axle bearing covers
- Brake shoes in wheel plane
- Extra axle brake linkage
- Multi-part brake system
- Variant-specific side walls
- Roof design adapted to different variants
- Complete replica of the vehicle floor
- Interior lighting prepared
- Short-coupling kinematics
- Fine printing and varnishing
