Prototype: German Federal Railroad (DB) type Okmm 38.
Article No. | 48270 |
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Gauge / Design type | H0 / 1:87 |
Era | III |
Kind | Freight Car Sets |
Model: 4 cars with different car numbers. Reproduction of the partially open car floor. Separately applied brakeman's platforms. Each car loaded with 3 removable coal tubs. The bottoms of the coal tubs can be opened. Total length over buffers 35.4 cm / 13-15/16".
DC wheel set 8 x 70 0580.
Models not available separately.
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The rational, rapid and at the same time careful unloading of these cars at steel plants and coal-fired power plants always was a great challenge for the car building industry. Three tubs can be loaded onto the type Okmm 38 flat cars. The unloading cranes grasp these containers by their hinge bolts in order to lift them, and to unload them they are grasped by the side depressions. These containers open at the bottom and allow a very careful handling of the load, which is particularly important in the case of valuable lump coal and coke. Only two containers are used per car to transport coke due to the low density of the latter as a freight load.