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Road no. J.1841.
It was only for a very short time that the Königlich Württembergische Staats-Eisenbahnen (K.W.St.E.) acquired four-axle freight cars replicating the American model. Very soon they switched to the standard European two-axle cars. Open freight cars with a 3.6 m wheelbase and a loading capacity of 200 metric hundredweight were acquired from 1862 onwards. These cars became the standard cars of the K.W.St.E. for quite some time. The dimensions of the frame corresponded to the dimensions of the boxcars which were being used at those times, even both platforms had been kept. They were still being used in Württemberg even after the introduction of couplings with side buffers. They were manufactured by the machine factory in Esslingen, MAN and the iron foundry in Wasseralfingen. The exact number of cars to have been built can no longer be determined, but 125 cars were still available in 1889. At that time, many of the cars had already been converted to N-type gravel hoppers or J-type latrine cars. In the period following, these cars continued to be converted so that none of these cars were actually available in their original form in 1911.
