Märklin - 81875 - Mixed Freight Consist, Europe Epoch VI - RheinCargo - 4-Pack

Specific Item Information: 1 class 285 Rheincargo diesel locomotive. 3 VTG freight cars, of them 1 type Eaos gondola, 1 type Falns dump car, and 1 type Shimmns sliding tarp car. The locomotive and cars look as they did in Era VI.

Prototype History: A mixed freight train is a train that hauls a variety of different freight cars or wagons. A mixed freight depends on the locale and industries. The train will be carrying cars to be brought to a yard where a local will bring them to the various industries. The location determines the industries, and the industries determine the cars.

Which cars are in which trains is determined by the waybills they are assigned - which is close to a totally random process. For example, through freights simply run from up staging to down staging and back, stopping long enough to trade out 30 percent of their cars and change from steam to motor (catenary) or vice-versa. Thus freights will have a variety of cars, changing each time they pass through a switching yard.

Road Name History: RheinCargo GmbH & Co. KG (RheinCargo) is a joint-stock company of Hafen und Güterverkehr Köln AG (HGK) and Neuss-Düsseldorfer Häfen GmbH & Co. KG (NDH). In total, seven inland ports with a total turnover of 29.7 million tons belong to the company. With around 100 locomotives could be transported in 2013 in rail freight transport 24 million tons of goods. The trimodal-oriented logistics company operates the second largest inland port operation in Germany (inter alia, in Dusseldorf, Neuss and Cologne) and is active as a railway undertaking (RU) in rail freight transport.

Brand/Importer Information: Gebr. Märklin & Cie. GmbH or Märklin (MÄRKLIN or MAERKLIN in capital letters) is a German toy company. The company was founded in 1859 and is based at Göppingen in Baden-Württemberg. Although it originally specialized in doll house accessories, today it is best known for model railways and technical toys. In some parts of Germany and in Sweden, the company's name is almost synonymous with model railroads.

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