Product Features and Details
Prototype: German Federal Railroad (DB) type A4ü. Intermediate car for the VT 08.5.
Model: Intermediate car lettered "FUSSBALL-WELTMEISTER 1954" ("WORLD SOCCER CHAMPIONS 1954"). This car allows you to transform the prototypically neutral 22608 VT 08.5 powered rail car train into the set for the return trip of the German soccer world champion team of 1954. Special close coupling at both ends for integrating this car into the powered rail car train consist. Built-in interior details. Interior lighting with maintenance-free LED’s. The interior lighting is powered by means of the special current-conducting coupling. Length over the buffers 283 mm / 11-1/8".
Exclusive special model in 2006 for Trix Profi Club members.
World Champion Return Trip in 1954 – Without a doubt the most spectacular use of a VT 08 powered rail car train was the return trip in this comfortable, special powered rail car train of the German national soccer team after they won the world championship in 1954 in Bern. This train was lettered for the occasion with "FUSSBALL-WELTMEISTER 1954" ("WORLD SOCCER CHAMPIONS 1954"). On the trip from Spiez, the headquarters of the German team, to Munich hundreds of thousands of soccer enthusiasts crowded into the stations to celebrate this sensational team. Over 20,000 fans eager to see the team overwhelmed the border station of Singen. They stood on station platforms, platform roofs, tracks, anywhere they could catch a glimpse of the train. The trip had to be repeatedly interrupted due to the masses of people.
This car goes with the VT 08.5 powered rail car train – item no. 22608. This "SOCCER WORLD CHAMPIONS 1954" intermediate car model is being offered in the Märklin assortment for Märklin Insiders under item no. 42080.
