Marklin 43854 - TEE

 Prototype: 4 different type TEE express train passenger cars for the TEE "Helvetia", used between Zürich and Hamburg-Altona. 2 type Avümz 111 TEE compartment cars, 1 type Avümh 111 TEE compartment car, and 1 type ARDümh 105 TEE compartment car with a bar. The cars look as they did in the summer of 1975.

Model: The cars have underbodies and skirting specific to the car types. The type Avümz cars and type ARDümh car have Minden-Deutz heavy design trucks with disk brakes, magnetic rail brakes, and with and without separately applied generators as in the prototype. The type Avümh car has Minden-Deutz heavy design trucks with double brake shoe brakes, magnetic rail brakes, and a separately applied generator. All of the cars have factory-installed LED interior lighting and operating current-conducting couplers. Maintenance-free warm white LEDs are used for the lighting. A pickup shoe is mounted on one of the cars. The 73407 marker light kit can be installed on all of the cars.

One type Avümz car has built-in marker lights.

Total length over the buffers approximately 113 cm / 44-1/2".

Highlights:

• Factory-installed LED interior lighting included on all of the cars.
• Operating current-conducting couplers.
• Interior lighting can be controlled by means of item number 43866.
• Built-in marker lights included on one car.

One-time series.

Charlie's Tip: Suitable motive power is the Re 4/4 II electric locomotive in a TEE paint scheme that can be found under item number 37349. A car set and a dining car with sound to go with this car set can be found item numbers 43853 and 43866.