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Minitrix - 15545 - Passenger Car, DB, Epoch IV - Deutsche Bahn - 4-pack

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N Scale - Minitrix - 15545 - Passenger Car, DB, Epoch IV - Deutsche Bahn - 4-pack
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Stock Number15545
Original Retail Price159.95€
BrandMinitrix
ManufacturerMinitrix
Body StyleMinitrix Passenger Car Box Set
Prototype VehiclePassenger Car, DB, Epoch IV (Details)
Road or Company NameDeutsche Bahn (Details)
Reporting MarksDB
Road or Reporting Number4-pack
Paint Color(s)Various
Coupler TypeRapido Hook NEM Standard Pocket
Coupler MountTruck-Mount
Wheel TypeChemically Blackened Metal
Wheel ProfileSmall Flange (Low Profile)
Announcement Date2015-01-01
Release Date2015-01-01
Item CategoryPassenger Cars
Model TypeEuropean
Model SubtypeDB
Model VarietyEpoch IV
Prototype RegionEurope
Prototype EraEU Epoch IV (1968 - 1985)
Scale1/160
EAN/JAN/GTIN13 Number4028106155451



Specific Item Information: Prototype: 2 type Avümz 111 compartment cars, 1 type Apümz 121 open seating car, and 1 type ARümh 217 "Kakadu" half dining car as they looked in the summer of 1977 painted and lettered for the German Federal Railroad (DB) with the train route "Munich - Augsburg - Nürnberg - Würzburg - Bebra - Hannover - Bremen".

Model: The cars have close coupler mechanisms. One type Avümz 111 has LED marker lights that can be turned off. The type Arümh 217 has a new roof without a pantograph. All of the cars are individually packaged. Total length over the buffers 667 mm / 26-1/4".

Highlights: Tooling variations. Vertical roof ends. Marker lights.
Model Information: This generic body style comprises any European Passenger consist that does not have a more specific prototype yet.
Prototype History:
The European wide standard computer-generated UIC lettering of all locomotives and cars marked the start of this era. This process extended over several years so that a mix of old and new lettering could be seen chiefly on the cars.
Road Name History:
Deutsche Bahn AG (abbreviated as DB, DB AG or DBAG) is a German railway company. Headquartered in Berlin, it is a private joint-stock company (AG), with the Federal Republic of Germany being its single shareholder. Deutsche Bahn describes itself as the second-largest transport company in the world, after the German postal and logistics company Deutsche Post / DHL, and is the largest railway operator and infrastructure owner in Europe. It carries about two billion passengers each year.

Deutsche Bahn (literally "German Railway" in German) came into existence in 1994 as the successor to the former state railways of Germany, the Deutsche Bundesbahn ("German Federal Railway") of West Germany and the Deutsche Reichsbahn ("German Empire Railway") of East Germany. It also gained ownership of former railway assets in West Berlin held by the Verwaltung des ehemaligen Reichsbahnvermögens (Administration of the Former Reichsbahn Assets).
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 2019-05-20 16:39:45

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