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About the model: The 'Rail Kitchen', USTC, Era III passenger car is a high-quality model from the BRAWA brand. The car was manufactured on a scale of 1:87 and impresses with its high-quality appearance with detailed paintwork and printing. Furthermore, the model has been equipped with numerous features such as a multi-part interior, details typical of the era and a multi-part brake system. In addition, the car has already been prepared for retrofitting interior lighting.
About the prototype: In the mid-1920s, the DRG began to significantly upgrade the travel comfort of its express and passenger train services. In addition to the newly procured two-axle coaches, four-axle compartment coaches were primarily used on the long-distance routes (there were, for example, accelerated passenger trains from Munich to Berlin). From 1928, several four-axle through coaches with open gangways began to be tested for future use on these services. The test wagons proved their worth and from 1930 over 1,000 B-BC and C4i wagons of riveted construction were procured. A characteristic feature was that the B section always had single-leaf doors, while the C section had double doors. When the advances in welding technology could also be used for wagon construction, the tried and tested design had to be adapted. In 1935, three test wagons each of the BC and C designs were procured, which were followed by almost unchanged series production. Despite the weight saving, the welded coaches had fewer seats than their riveted predecessors, as the DRG designed the passenger compartments to be more spacious. There were also larger windows and their lower edge, which was positioned 150 mm lower, offered "Steppkes" in particular a better field of vision of the train operation, which was not yet dominated by noise barriers. In the welded version, over 1,000 C and 145 BC coaches were built in six years, before progress made further improvements possible in the form of the apron coaches. The war scattered the express train carriages across half of Europe, with larger stocks outside the German railroads being held by the ÖBB, SNCF and PKP, among others. At the DB and DR, the coaches remained indispensable in district traffic until the end of the 1970s and thus became over forty years old. Until the 1960s, they were also used internationally, from Scandinavia to the Balkans. There were numerous conversions, including sleeping, dining, buffet and half-luggage coaches. For the anniversary in 1985, DB refurbished a complete train consisting of several different types of express train carriages. Unfortunately, these carriages are now scattered across several locations and only a few of them are still operational.
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