Flat car DB
As a replacement for older flat wagons that had reached the end of their useful life at the DR, the DR procured around 1200 stake wagons in the dimensions of the UIC standard wagons from UV Arad in Romania in 1969. Typical of the vehicles is the girder for reinforcement in the middle area of the car and the use of rotating stanchions instead of plug-in stanchions. In 1994 the DB-AG took over 1,146 Ks [3300] pieces into their inventory and classified them with the designation Ks 446 in their wagon inventory. Many of these wagons are still in use today by DB AG and private railway companies.
The model by Busch reproduces the original of the new flat car in detail in variants of the DR (Ks [3300], epoch 4) and the DB (Ks 446, epoch 5/6). As with the large prototypes, the wagons have special features, rotating stanchions, a wagon floor made of real wood and prototypical round or angular buffers.
