Description
This boxcar was originally purchased in the early Forties for the Austrian narrow gauge railways and was used there for a long time. Several of the cars came to other railroads and also to various museum railways, which use these types of cars chiefly for transporting bicycles. The prototype of our LGB museum car is at the Öchsle Museum Railroad – which runs between Warthausen and Ochsenhausen in Upper Swabia – in the same design as the model in use and refers to the 125th anniversary of this railroad.
This is a model of a 4-axle boxcar painted and lettered for this year’s partner, the Öchsle Museum Railroad in Upper Swabia. The paint scheme and lettering are for Era VI. There is a brakeman’s platform with a brakeman’s cab at one end of the car, and the sliding doors on the sides can be opened. The trucks are correct for this type of car. The car has metal wheelsets. Length over the buffers 43 cm / 16-15/16″.
