Brawa 50598 Behältertragwagen BTs 30 der DB, with Efkr 401 "Birkel", Ep. III

Brawa 50598 Behältertragwagen BTs 30 der DB, with Efkr 401 "Birkel", Ep. III Product Details

Description

About the model: The DB container wagon BTs 30 with Efkr 401 "Birkel" has the road number "010 364" and is a prototypical model from the manufacturer BRAWA. The wagon was manufactured on a scale of 1:87 and has a detailed appearance as well as numerous features, such as brake shoes at wheel level, individually attached brake system, grab rails and steps as well as a prototypical frame structure. The model also has close coupling kinematics and is 115 mm long.

About the prototype: Even before the war, standardized large containers began to be transported to the customer by rail and road vehicles. However, the beginning of the Second World War put a stop to the further spread of the system. In 1949, DB took up the pa container system again and decided to introduce it on a large scale. While the containers were newly built, the underframes of various pre-war wagons were used for the coaches, which were available in abundance with war damage to the superstructures. The conversion included Omm 34 bogies, which were classified as BT(hs) 30 in a common number range with BT wagons from other donor wagons. After the conversion of a total of 273 BT 30s to various donor types, the exclusive construction of new container wagons began in 1952. Still renamed Lb(r)s577, the last converted BT 30 wagons left service in 1971. Numerous open and closed containers were built for a wide variety of loads, and there were also special containers for liquids, foodstuffs such as beer and the like, as well as for transporting frozen goods. From the end of the 1960s, increasingly under pressure from the emergence of containers, traffic with pa containers did not end until the end of the 1990s.

Features:

• Era: III
• Nominal size: H0
• Length over buffers: 115 mm
• road number: 010 364
• Close coupler kinematics
• Body with three containers
• Brake shoes at wheel level
• Three-point bearing
• Metal axle holder
• Prototypical frame structure
• Openwork wagon body supports
• Filigree, openwork frame
• Version with transition platform or handbrake platform
• Extra attached axle brake linkage and axle bearing cover
• Individually attached brake system, grab rails and steps