Product Features and Details
Prototype: German Federal Railroad (DB) type Pw4üe-36, built starting in 1936 for the DRG.
Model: Era III, the car comes with a close coupler mechanism. Length over the buffers 135 mm / 5-5/16".
At the end of the 1920s the DRG?s greatest backlog demand was covered with the purchase of new two-axle compartment cars. Procurement of four-axle express train passenger cars was begun starting in 1925. New passenger cars were developed starting in 1928 to provide equipment for the new train class called "Eilzüge" or "fast passenger trains". Different prototypes were built that already has the main features of the later regular production cars: Center aisle, large seating area compartments, all steel construction, Görlitz design trucks with a 3,000 mm / 9 feet 10-1/8 inches wheelbase, inset entrance doors, etc. The regular production cars were purchased in large numbers from 1930 on, the prototypes for the Minitrix models. This car type was in use on the DB until the end of the 1970s.
