TRIX 24161 DB Laabs VW Container Transport Wagon Set (2) IV

Description

Product description Suitable for the following scale(s): B ScaleType Laabs Container Transport CarModel: The container transport cars have truss rods and different identification numbers. They are loaded with six VW transport containers with different container numbers. Total length over the buffers approximately 28.2 cm / 11-1/8". AC wheelset E700150. Trix Express wheelset E258259.Prototype: German Federal Railroad (DB) type Laabs double unit gondola car for transporting containers (coupled type Klms 440, former Rmrso 31), leased to Volkswagen, Inc. (VW). Version without a hand brake, with container transport frames and VW transport containers as a load. The cars look as they did around 1971.VW and the German Federal Railroad developed an extremely creative idea, when they concluded an agreement in 1959 for transport by rail of motors and transmissions between various VW production sites. There were still no containers at that time as we know them now, so that initially standard containers had to be developed, which were first transported on close-coupled type R10 double unit low side cars (without stakes). Starting in September of 1959, motors and transmissions were then transported by rail between the VW plants in Wolfsburg and Hannover. Starting in 1965, rebuilt type Rm(r)so 31 stake cars began replacing the old type R 10 car. Once again, there were close-coupled units consisting of two each type Klms 440 cars. Stakes, side and end walls, hand brakes, brakeman's platforms, and brakeman's cab were not used on these cars. They now had only flat superstructures with wood floors, on which the transport frames for the containers were mounted. The containers themselves varied in height (1,546, 1,765 or 2,330 mm / 60-7/8, 69-1/2, or 91-3/4 inches), but they had identical bottom dimensions (2,900 x 2,650 mm / 114-3/16 x 104-5/16 inches), since they had to fit in the receptacle frames of the transport cars. These transport containers were designed for either 36 motors or 96 Safety Warning Not suitable for children under the age of 3 due to sharp corners or breakable and easily swallowed small parts necessary for the design of the product.