Marklin 20 Open Freight Wagons DB Disc

00773 Display with 20 Oppeln Freight Cars.


Group: Wagons
Subgroup: Freight Car Set

Gauge: H0
Era: III

Prototype: Different type Ghs Oppeln interchange design freight cars built with welding technology, used on the German Federal Railroad (DB). Versions with a short frame without a brakeman s platform or brakeman s cab and versions with a long frame with a brakeman s platform or brakeman s cab.
Model: The car designs are included in an attractive display with 10 each of the cars with short frames, 5 each of the cars with a long frame and a brakeman s platform, and 5 each of the cars with a long frame and a brakeman s cab. All of the cars have different car numbers. Each of the cars comes packaged individually and marked. Length over the buffers for each car 10.4 cm / 4-1/8 and 11.3 cm / 4-7/16 .DC wheel set for each car 2 x 700580.
Highlights:

Completely new tooling for the Oppeln family of freight cars.Available individually at your authorized dealer in this well-arranged display.Road numbers for long trains.

One-time series.

Fast Freight Cars.The general efforts to make rail service more attractive and faster also influenced the German State Railroad Company s (DRG) purchasing policy regarding freight cars. Slow freight trains blocked the increasingly faster passenger trains in many places and the utilization of the routes thereby did not achieve the desired mass. The decision was therefore made to develop new freight cars in the medium term that could run fast. A condition for increasing the speed was to improve the operational smoothness provided by the longer wheelbases. After several experiments at the beginning of the Thirties with freight cars from the Dresden family of cars with a wheelbase of 7.7 meters / 25 feet 3-1/8 inches, the green light was given for development of a new car type that would not cause problems in everyday use. Most of the DRG s track scales could only handle a length of 7 meters / 22 feet 11-5/8 inches, so the engineers were required to design the ideal mean for a freight car on the basis of length, speed, load capacity, and suitability for operation. The result was a car built entirely using welding technology, with a wheelbase of 7 meters / 22 feet 11-5/8 inches, a load surface of 24.2 square meters / 260.49 square feet, and a tare weight of 15 metric tons. The new car family name Oppeln was created for these new, fast boxcars.

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Released in:
New items brochure 2009
Product programme 2009/2010