Brawa 49921 Gedeckter Güterwagen Glmms der DR, Ep. IV

Brawa 49921 Gedeckter Güterwagen Glmms der DR, Ep. IV Product Details

Description

About the model: The DR boxcar Glmms is from Era IV and shines with a detailed look and selected features such as extra details. The model also has close coupling kinematics and brake shoes at wheel level. The model has a length of 165.7 mm and has been given the road number "21 50 150 2613-5".

About the prototype: Freight cars were and are always needed on the railroad. The Deutsche Reichsbahn (DR) was able to provide a short-term remedy in the 1950s through conversions and modernization, but in the long term it was clear that other solutions had to be found. The RAW "Einheit" Leipzig therefore designed a Glmms wagon in 1965 that essentially corresponded to the standardization features according to the UIC leaflet. The knowledge gained from a test wagon was incorporated into the series wagons produced from 1968 onwards, which were now designated Glmms 14.05 (later Gbs 1500). The body, with its distinctive corrugated side walls, was built entirely as a welded construction. The side walls are pulled down to the lower edge of the outer frame longitudinal members and the box profiles are welded to them. This made it possible to simplify the side box supports. To prevent damage to the sheet metal walls during loading, the wagons were lined with wood on the inside. The floor was made of standard pine planks and was suitable for loading with forklift trucks. Based on the Gbs 1500 design, which was built in over 17,00 units, various other variants were subsequently produced, such as heat protection wagons, express goods wagons and crew wagons. As the production capacity of the company's own factories reached its limits here, wagons were also manufactured in neighboring countries and even Spain. Due to their suitability for RIV, MC and OPW traffic, the wagons could be used relatively freely beyond the borders of the GDR and were therefore frequently seen in Bundesbahn trains even before the fall of the Berlin Wall. By the time DB AG was founded, around 7,000 cars were still in use.

Features:

• Gauge: H0
• Era: IV
• Road number: 21 50 150 2613-5
• Length over buffers: 165.7 mm
• Multi-part brake system
• Brake shoes at wheel level
• Extra attached signal brackets
• Extra axle bearing covers
• Close coupling kinematics according to NEM standard
• Prototypical replica of the underbody
• Metal wheels
• Metal axle bearing