Express Train Passenger Car Set.
Prototype: 5 German State Railroad (DR) type Y passenger cars. Painted and lettered as the City Express until about 1990. Use: Passenger service between the cities of East Germany.
Most Important Facts
| Article No. | 15883 |
|---|---|
| Gauge / Design type | Minitrix / |
| Era | IV |
| Kind | Passenger Car Sets |
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Product description
Model: All of the cars have close coupler mechanisms. They also all have different car numbers. 2 cars for 1st class and 3 cars for 2nd class.
Total train length 775 mm / 30-1/2".66656 Lighting kit.
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Publications
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Prototype information
"Städteexpress" / "Cities Express" Express Train Passenger Cars A curious coincidence helped the German State Railroad (DR) in East Germany to introduce the "Städteexpress" service quickly. In the Seventies an improvement had to be made urgently chiefly to passenger service for business and government functionaries from and to East Berlin as the capital of East Germany. Sufficient rolling stocking was lacking because the export of rolling stock to other socialist countries took priority over covering the domestic needs. So, it turned out well when due to a calculation error in its balance the Czechoslovakian State Railroad could not take delivery in 1976 of 43 1st class cars, 60 2nd class cars, and seven half baggage cars from production in Bautzen. The DR used the 103 orange-beige painted passenger cars to set up its "Städteexpress" network that linked regional capitals with East Berlin. These trains represented an elevated passenger train offering for East German business, political party, and government functionary travel and thus soon acquired the nickname "Bonzenschleuder" / "Bigwigs' Express". The names of the trains usually had a regional reference that was not immediately obvious to outsiders in the case of "Petermännchen" (from/to Schwerin), "Lipsia" (from/to Leipzig), or "Stoltera" (from/to Rostock). After the reunification of Germany most of the "Städteexpress" trains were run as regular express trains or in some cases completely discontinued.
