Product Features and Details
2nd class "Silberling" local control car with baggage compartment, type BDnf 735 of the Deutsche Bundesbahn.
Version with "Karlsruhe head"
Livery with striking orange warning stripes
With ocean blue longitudinal members
Train route Karlsruhe - Offenburg - Freiburg
With function decoder for changing lights (white/red) for both analog and digital operation
In digital operation with switchable lighting for the train destination display
The n-cars of the Deutsche Bundesbahn were known for decades as "Silberlinge". With over 5,000 units built, this car family became the dominant design for DB local transport cars from the 1960s onwards. It wasn't until the 1990s that they were gradually replaced by multiple units and double-decker carriages. Typical features of the design from the 1970s to 1990s were the ocean-blue monorails, the large class numbers, and the pictograms. A major modernization project between 1978 and 1982 involved the conversion of 200 control cars with a small driver's cab (known as "Hasenkasten") with the so-called Karlsruher Kopf (Karlsruhe head). The prototypes were based in Freiburg im Breisgau. From there, they were used on the Rhine Valley Railway between Basel and Karlsruhe, as well as on the Höllental Railway, and diesel-hauled to Breisach and Elzach.
