Product Features and Details
Prototype: 1 DSG type WR4üm-62 dining car. 2 dining areas, galley, clean-up area, buffet, and crew compartment. Special design for long distance express service with a service area on two levels, version with rounded roof ends and a raised roof over the galley ("hump-backed dining car "). 1 German Federal Railroad (DB) type Av4üm-62 compartment car. 1st class. Special design for long distance express service, version with rounded roof ends. 1 German Federal Railroad (DB) type Ap4üm-62 open seating car. 1st class. Special design for long distance express service, version with rounded roof ends. Paint scheme for the "Rheingold" of 1962.
Model: These express train passenger cars look as they did around 1962. The roof shapes, side walls, underbodies, and skirting are specific to the type of car. The trucks are Minden-Deutz designs with brake shoes and magnet rail brakes and separately applied generators. The car roofs can be removed from the cars. These four-axle express train passenger cars are not available separately. All of the cars have detailed interiors and built-in interior lighting. The humped back dining car also has working table lamps. The cars have guide mechanisms for the couplers in order to provide close-coupled car spacing. Reproduction prototype couplers can be installed on the cars. The minimum radius for operation is 1,020 mm / 40-3/16". Total length over the buffers 225.0 cm / 88-9/16".
One-time series.
The class E 10.12 electric locomotive, item no. 55010, is precisely the right motive power for these "Rheingold" cars. Three other "Rheingold" can be found under item no. 58058.
