Brawa 46814 ABih Standard Through Car, ÖBB, Ep. III

Brawa 46814 ABih Standard Through Car, ÖBB, Ep. III Product Details

Description

About the model: The ÖBB ABih standard through car dates from Era III and features a highly detailed appearance and select features, such as separately applied details and a prototypical interior. Furthermore, the model has been prepared for retrofitting interior lighting. The model is 160 mm long and bears the road number “27 456 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 railroad industry—a key industry 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. The aim was 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 specification, 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 were produced in several delivery batches for passenger service. The cars met the DRG’s expectations. As a result, many older state railway cars and miscellaneous types could be 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 adding two-axle standard through cars to 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: 27 456 Villach
• Length over buffers: 160 mm
• Short-coupler kinematics
• DC
• Prepared for interior lighting
• Metal axle supports
• Finely engraved rivets
• Separately applied steps
• Separately applied brake system
• Separately attached spring assemblies
• Prototype-accurate axle bearing caps
• Prototype-accurate interior
• Axle brake linkage with brake shoes at wheel level