Product Features and Details
Prototype: Type Fad 163 (former OOt 43 / Erz IId) four-axle hopper car. Privately owned car painted and lettered for the Märklin Magazin Göppingen, used on the German Federal Railroad (DB). Version with medium high upper hopper and brakeman‘s platform. Used to transport coal. Standard design pressed metal trucks, without beam welded in as reinforcement. The car looks as it did around 1990.
Model: The car has detailed construction with a brakeman‘s platform and a setting wheel at one end. The car has a load insert of real scale sized coal. Length over the buffers 11.5 cm / 4-1/2“. DC wheelset E700580.
