MODEL DETAILS
- Fine engravings and rivets
- Metal spoked wheels
- Finely detailed bogie
- True-to epoch lighting, multipart lamp housing
- Prototypical roof-fittings
- True-to-scale fan-grill
- Prepared for sound or with built-in sound
- Chassis in die-cast zinc
- With interior lighting
- Filigree pantograph
INFO ABOUT THE ORIGINAL
Year of construction: 1926
Lenght: 21,9 m
Velocity: 65 km/h
Service weight: 70 t
PS: 489
kW: 360
The proving of the ET 831 - 842 that had already been procured by the KPEV (Königlich Preußische Eisenbahn- Verwaltung) caused the planning for newer electric railcars at the Deutsche Reichsbahn Gesellschaft (DRG) to make rapid progress. The way was led in 1926 by the Reichsbahndirektion Magdeburg that had ordered two 4-axle railcars from the Dessauer Waggonfabrik and the Siemens-Schuckert-Werke (SSW) for staff transport and use in slack hours. Only a short time later, WUMAG in Görlitz supplied 11 electric railcars (ET) similar in propulsion concept for the use in the Silesian network. At that time, railcars were treated like passenger coaches and had therefore also the same dark-green colour design so that many travellers didn't notice the difference at all.
