Product Features and Details
Prototype: The Calais-Méditerranée Express was introduced in the winter timetable 1886/1887 and was a luxury train of Compagnie Internationale des Wagons-Lits. He traveled from 1886 to 1939 from Calais or Paris to the French-Italian Riviera. Later, from 1922 after the introduction of the famous steel-blue sleeping cars, the train also got the surname "Le Train Bleu". Like all CIWL luxury trains at that time, the Calais-Méditerranée-Express consisted exclusively of sleeping, dining and luggage cars. In addition to the usual teak car CIWL came in this train, the visually striking 2-color cream-brown car used. In the model, the complete 6-piece train with two luggage, three bed and a dining car is realized. The finish signs of the sleeping cars are authentically different.
Model Features:
- Filigree etched CIWL logos and train signs
- multicolored detailed interior fittings
- Brass table lamps
- Elaborate printing and painting
- detailed chassis and roof structures
- Interior lighting for sleeping cars for both the aisle and compartment side and for the dining car already installed at the factory (3-axle car with power intake prepared for interior lighting)
- Interior lighting with buffer memory and soldering interface for decoder
- Min. Radius 250 mm. AC and DC version
- NEM coupling with KKK for minimum buffer clearance when using a close coupler
- LüP: 3-axle carriage 143 mm / 4-axle carriage 233 mm
- 1:87 / H0 scale
