Marklin 58342 - Silberling Commuter Cab Control Car

 Prototype: German Federal Railroad (DB) "Silberling / Silver Coin Design" commuter cab control car (BD4nf-59), 2nd class with a baggage compartment. "Rabbit hutch" end with a baggage area and rubber tube diaphragm. Car number 96426 Stg.

Model: The car body is finely constructed of plastic with complete detailed interior and many separately applied details. The car reproduces the original, typical "peacock's eye" pattern. The car has a detailed underbody specific to the car type. The trucks are Minden-Deutz designs with double brake shoes and separately applied generators. The car has a built-in mfx decoder with extensive sound functions as well as digitally controlled interior lighting and marker lights. The interior lighting will work in conventional operation. Maintenance-free, warm white LEDs are used for the interior lighting. The couplers have close coupler mechanisms. The car has a scale length at 82.5 cm / 32-1/2". The minimum radius for operation is 1,020 mm / 40-1/8" (1,550 mm / 61" for operation with parallel curves).

Length over the buffers 82.5 cm / 32-1/2".
 

Highlights:

• New tooling.
• Car body finely constructed of plastic with many separately applied details and with a representation of the "peacock's eye" pattern true to the original.
• The car has a scale length at 82.5 cm / 32-1/2".
• mfx decoder with extensive sound and light functions included.

One-time series.