Marklin 40850 - Rheingold Tin-Plate Car Set (retro)
Prototype: 5 different design German Federal Railroad (DB) four-axle TEE passenger cars. Cobalt blue / beige Rheingold paint scheme. 2 type Av4üm-62 TEE compartment cars, 1st class. 1 type AD4üm-62 TEE vista dome car, 1st class. 1 type WR4üm TEE dining car. 1 type Ap4üm-62 TEE open seating car, 1st class. The cars look as they did in the summer of 1962.
Model: All of the cars have Relex couplers and rubber type diaphragms. They also have imprinted train destination signs. The cars have different car numbers. 1 compartment car has factory-installed marker lights. Each car comes in packaged in its own marked box with the packaging design borrowed from the historic packaging of that time. There is also a master package.
Length over the buffers per car 24 cm / 9-1/2".
- Elegant Rheingold paint scheme to go with the 30390 Rheingold locomotive.
- The start of European TEE service 60 years ago on June 2, 1957.