Marklin 46080 - Freight Car Set

Gauge: H0 Era: III

Prototype: 6 different design German Federal Railroad (DB) freight cars.

• 1 type Glms 200 (former Ghs "Oppeln") boxcar.
• 1 type Glt 23 (former Glt "Dresden") boxcar.
• 1 type Rr 20 interchange design (former Rr "Stuttgart") stake car with pressed steel stakes.
• 1 four-axle pressure gas tank car with a heat shield. Privately owned car painted and lettered for the firm VTG, Vereinigte Tanklager und Transportmittel GmbH, Hamburg, Germany.
• 1 insulated boxcar with a raised brakeman's stand. Privately owned car painted and lettered for the firm Kühltransit AG, Hamburg, Germany.
• 1 four-axle tank car with a brakeman's platform. Privately owned car painted and lettered for the firm Eva, Eisenbahn-Verkehrsmittel-Aktiengesellschaft, Düsseldorf, Germany.

All of the cars look as they did in the mid-Sixties, some of them with transition lettering to Era IV.

Model: The "Oppeln" boxcar has a hand brake and a brakeman's platform. The "Dresden" boxcar has a low end wall at one end. The "Stuttgart" comes with stakes. The pressure gas tank car has a hand brake and a brakeman's platform. The insulated boxcar does not have a brakeman's cab; it has a hand brake and a raised brakeman's stand. The tank car has a hand brake and a brakeman's platform. All of the cars have different car numbers and come individually packaged and marked.

Total length over the buffers 78.8 cm / 31".

DC wheel set per car 2 x 700580 or 4 x 700580 and 4 x 32376004 (tank car).

Charlie's Tip: The class 50 freight train steam locomotive as new tooling, available under item no. Marklin 37810, goes very well with this freight car set.

 

Released in: New items brochure 2012