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Minitrix - 15610 - Boxcar, 2-Axle, Hbils-vy - SBB CFF FFS - 2-Pack

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N Scale - Minitrix - 15610 - Boxcar, 2-Axle, Hbils-vy - SBB CFF FFS - 2-Pack
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Stock Number15610
Original Retail Price$69.99
BrandMinitrix
ManufacturerMinitrix
Body StyleMinitrix Boxcar Hbils-vy
Prototype VehicleBoxcar, 2-Axle, Hbils-vy (Details)
Road or Company NameSBB CFF FFS (Details)
Road or Reporting Number2-Pack
Coupler TypeRapido Hook NEM Standard Pocket
Coupler MountBody-Mount
Wheel TypeChemically Blackened Metal
Wheel ProfileDeep Flange
MultipackYes
Multipack Count2
Release Date2016-01-01
Item CategoryRolling Stock (Freight)
Model TypeBoxcar
Model Subtype2-Axle
Model VarietyHbils-vy
Prototype RegionEurope
Prototype EraEU Epoch V (1985 - 2000)
Scale1/160



Specific Item Information: Prototype: 2 sliding wall boxcars with a special paint scheme for the brewery Feldschlösschen, used on the Swiss Federal Railways (SBB). Model: The cars have close coupler mechanisms. Both cars are painted differently on both sides.
Prototype History:
Sliding wall wagon with special advertising design.
Road Name History:
Swiss Federal Railways (German: Schweizerische Bundesbahnen (SBB), French: Chemins de fer fédéraux suisses (CFF), Italian: Ferrovie federali svizzere (FFS)) is the national railway company of Switzerland. It is usually referred to by the initials of its German, French and Italian names, either concatenated as SBB CFF FFS, or used separately.

The company is headquartered in Bern.

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Brand/Importer Information:
Trix is a German company that originally made Trix metal construction sets. one of its co-founders was Stephan Bing, the son of the pioneer toy-maker industrialist Ignaz Bing. In 1935 the company began producing the electrically powered model trains that it became famous for, under the Trix Express label. Prior to the outbreak of World War II the Trix company produced a small range of fairly unrealistic AC powered three rail models running at 14 volts.

N gauge models under the Minitrix brand were made from the late 1960s mostly of European prototypes (German and British primarily). North American prototypes were also manufactured and marketed under the Aurora "Postage Stamp" brand; later these items were sold under the American Tortoise, Model Power and Con-Cor brands. Trix sometimes utilized North American consultants to aid in the design of this portion of the product line. The "Hornby Minitrix' brand was used in the 1980s for a short lived range of British outline models using the earlier product tooling.

Trix's owner in the 1980s and 1990s was Mangold, which went bankrupt in the late 1990s and Märklin purchased the assets in January 1997. In part, this purchase was a reflection of Märklin's need for added production capacity; Trix had been manufacturing certain items for Märklin in previous years. The purchase was also in response to the earlier purchase of the Karl Arnold company by the Italian company Rivarossi; Märklin were very keen to take over Trix market share in 2-rail H0 and especially Minitrix, until then Märklin had not marketed N gauge models. In 2003, Märklin introduced its first N gauge models under the well established Minitrix brand. A number Märklin H0 scale three-rail AC locomotives have also been introduced in two-rail DC versions under the Trix logo and many models are shared between the two brands.

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Item created by: gdm on 2019-05-18 14:43:36

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