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Prototype 46350:
6 different German Federal Railroad (DB) freight cars of different types. 2 type F-v-51 (later Ommi 51) dump cars with hand brakes and brakeman's platforms. 2 type F-z-51 (later Ommi 51) dump cars without hand brakes and without brakeman's platforms. 1 type Gms 30 boxcar, welded design (former type Gs "Oppeln"), with a short frame, without hand brakes and without brakeman's platforms. 1 acid transport car with a hand brake and a brakeman's platform. One privately owned car painted and lettered for VTG, Vereinigte Tanklager und Transportmittel GmbH, Hamburg / United Tank Farm and Transport Service, Inc, Hamburg, Germany. The cars look as they did around 1962.
Prototype 46351: 6 different German Federal Railroad (DB) freight cars of different types. 2 type F-v-51 (later Ommi 51) dump cars with hand brakes and brakeman's platforms. 2 type F-z-51 (later Ommi 51) dump cars without hand brakes and without brakeman's platforms. 1 type G 10 boxcar with a built-on brakeman's cab. 1 tank car with a brakeman's platform. One privately owned car painted and lettered for VTG, Vereinigte Tanklager und Transportmittel GmbH, Hamburg / United Tank Farm and Transport Service, Inc, Hamburg, Germany. The cars look as they did around 1962.
Prototype 46982: German Federal Railroad (DB) type Pwgs 41. Version without a roof cupola. The car looks as it did around 1962.
Model 46350: The dump cars are finely detailed with partially open frames, separately applied track tongs, and separately applied dump hoppers. The cars have either a separately applied brakeman's platform or no brakeman's platform. All of the dump cars have different car numbers. The hoppers are loaded with real scale sized ballast. The "Oppeln" design boxcar has a short frame. The acid transport car has finely detailed frame pieces for holding the acid containers in place. Total length over the buffers 63.5 cm / 25". DC wheel set for each freight car 2 x 700580.
Model 46351: The dump cars are finely detailed with partially open frames, separately applied track tongs, and separately applied dump hoppers. The cars have either a separately applied brakeman's platform or no brakeman's platform. All of the dump cars have different car numbers. The hoppers are loaded with real scale sized ballast. The type G 10 boxcar has sliding doors that can be opened. The tank car has a separately applied brakeman's platform and a ladder going up to the filling platform. It has a reproduction of a partially open car body. Total length over the buffers 63 cm / 24-13/16". DC wheel set for each dump car 2 x 700580, for the boxcar 2 x 700270, for the tank car 2 x 32376004.
Model 46982: The underbody has separately applied brake rigging. Length over the buffers 11.9 cm / 4-11/16". DC wheel set 2 x 700580.
Highlights 46350 and 46351:
- Dump cars are completely new tooling.
- Very finely detailed construction.
- Separately applied track tongs on the car frame.
- All of the cars have different car numbers.
- Ideal cars for the class 50.40 freight train steam locomotive (Insider model for 2011).
The 46350 and 46351 dump car sets and 46982 freight train baggage car were being produced in 2011 in a one-time series only for Insider members!
Type Ommi 51 Dump Cars Between 1951 and 1970 the DB purchased a total of 3,905 dump cars which had already turned in excellent results on the Westphalian Provincial Railroad (WLE). They were designated as the type Ommi 51. This designation had the following meanings O = an open car that can be tipped or that has self-unloading equipment, mm = a load limite of more than 21 metric tons, i = dump hoppers, and 51 = type number (new cars were given type numbers in the range of 50 to 99 from 1951 on). The type Ommi 51 had five hoppers that could be tipped on both sides, thus allowing the freight load to be unloaded directly into road vehicles (such as trucks), over bunker walls, etc. The hoppers were fabricated of steel, welded together, and reinforced with hollow supports. The car's underbody was a latticework design with rolled steel shapes und supported the vertical roller guides, on which the hoppers, with their cradles equipped with guide pins, roll for dumping. The hoppers could be unloaded partially or completely. The hopper was locked in place in the selected dumping position. After the return lock was released the emptied hopper rolled back to its normal position and the hopper restraint locked into place. The roll process for dumping was very well thought out in kinematic terms and, in conjunction with the admittedly less advantageous high center of gravity for the hoppers, allowed direct transfer of the load into trucks without any aids. The simplicity and quickness of the process could hardly be improved on in principle. Since the cars were inclined to tip over during the unloading process, they had to be safeguarded in advance with special track clamps. Despite all of this these dump cars were very much in demand, mostly for the transport of specifically heavy bulk freight such as sand, gravel, ballast, and stones.
The 46350 dump car set is lengthened to a prototypical freight train with this 46351 dump car set. If and only if you buy both of these freight car sets, the freight train is completed with the 46982 freight train baggage car available free for this purpose.
