Brawa 46813 ABiph Standard Through Car, ÖBB, Ep. III

Brawa 46813 ABiph Standard Through Car, ÖBB, Ep. III Product Details

Description

About the model: The ÖBB ABiph standard-type through car is a detailed model from BRAWA. In addition to its true-to-life appearance, the car boasts other features, such as a prototype-accurate interior and separately applied details. Furthermore, the model is 161.4 mm long and has been assigned the road number “27 412 Villach.”

About the prototype: The development of the two-axle standard through cars of the “Austauschbauart” type is closely linked to the emergence of standardization for components in the railway industry—a key sector of the 1920s. The Deutsche Reichsbahn Gesellschaft (DRG) had set itself the goal of having railcar components manufactured across companies according to the same specifications and conditions. This was done to drastically reduce maintenance costs in its own workshops later on and to make components interchangeable. Against this backdrop, the DRG commissioned the Society of German Car Manufacturers (D.W.V.) to develop and deliver the desired standardized through-cars. Thanks to the interchangeable design requirement, it was no longer necessary to have approximately 1,400 drawings for each individual car type. Instead, there was a basic type upon which the modified variants were based, using approximately 150 specific drawings. In several delivery batches beginning in 1928, nearly 5,500 cars of the various types—BCi-28, Ci-28, CDi-29, Pwi-28, Ci-29, BCi-29, Pwi-29, Bi-29, and Ci-30 for passenger service. The cars met the DRG’s expectations. As a result, many older regional railway cars and miscellaneous types were taken out of service. The cars’ ride quality, which was not particularly satisfactory for passengers, quickly earned them the well-known nickname “Donnerbüchsen” (thunderboxes). The turmoil of the war inevitably led to many European railroads subsequently having two-axle standard through-cars in their fleets as well. What they all had in common, however, was that the cars were phased out of general service toward the end of the 1960s and the beginning of the 1970s. The cars that still exist today enjoy great popularity at various museum railroads both in Germany and abroad.

Features:

• Gauge: H0
• Era: III
• Road number: 27 412 Villach
• Length over buffers: 161.4 mm
• Short coupler kinematics
• DC
• Prepared for interior lighting
• Metal axle supports
• Finely engraved rivets
• Separately applied footrests
• Separately applied brake system
• Separately attached spring assemblies
• Prototype-accurate axle box covers
• Prototype-accurate interior
• Axle brake linkage with brake shoes in the wheel plane