BRAWA 67499

• Finely engraved board joints and ventilators
• Finest paintwork and printing
• NEM-standard short-coupling
• Metal wheels
• True-to-original replica of the brake unit on the car bottom
• True-to-original frame body

Champagne Mercier is a registered trademark.

INFORMATION ABOUT THE MODEL

Tariff conditions on the one hand and technical conditions on the other led to the development of covered freight wagons with almost the same dimensions and loading weights by all state railway administrations. These were wagons with a wheelbase of 4.5 m, a length over buffers of 9.3 m for unbraked wagons, a loading weight of 15 t, later 17.5 t and a floor area of about 21 square meters. This type of freight wagon became the most important and most frequently built covered freight wagon of all, they originally bore the generic symbol Gm. The most common of these state railway cars was the Prussian model sheet IId8, of which 47,533 alone were built. After the foundation of the German State Railway Wagon Association (DWV) in 1909, the A2 type association car was developed. This was built from 1911 onwards in a total of 121,770 units. This made it the world's most frequently built covered freight car. It dominated the image of German freight trains until the early epoch 3. Due to two world wars, these wagons were scattered all over Europe, there was no European railway administration that did not use such wagons at least temporarily.