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New FR wagon models

  • Created by Holger Späing

As reported in the June issue, two new FR models based on German models have recently become available.

The workshop equipment wagon 649 (item no. 49.343.101) painted in RAL 6020 chrome oxide green is still available from the exclusive ordering dealer, which the 1zu220 shop had produced by the Uwe Schuster assembly service. The model is a mould variant based on the Pwghs 54 goods train luggage wagon, which was created in the prototype from surplus examples by minor conversion and insertion of suitable interior fittings. As a service freight wagon, it is no longer used for public transport, but for auxiliary, construction or crane train services. The model already has a UIC number and can therefore be used in colourful service into the seventies. There it contrasts perfectly with those coaches that were painted in the new RAL 5020 ocean blue colour scheme from 1974 onwards.

The Stammtisch Rhein-Neckar has chosen a DB type Glm 207 covered goods wagon with a tin roof and UIC number as well as the former type designation Gm 35 (item no. 49.342.41) as the 2024 annual wagon. This places it in the transition period between model railway eras III and IV. The prototype was rebuilt on the chassis of the Kriegsbauart Bremen and, as a prototype, has colour-contrasting UIC ventilation sliders on the left longitudinal side; it also required design changes compared to an earlier FR edition. There was a one-off production run of 45 units, which are already sold out.