Tank car

Prototype: Tank car with two wheel sets, painted and lettered for the firm Zeller+Gmelin GmbH & Co. KG (Eislingen/Fils), registered with the German Federal Railroad (DB). Version with a riveted tank. With a brakeman’s platform, without a brakeman’s cab. The car looks as it did in 1971.

Model: The car has a detailed, open frame. The handbrake cranks, brake rigging, and emptying pipes are modeled in detail and separately applied. The work platform and ladder are separately applied. The car has a separately applied brakeman’s platform without a brakeman’s cab. The car has close couplers with a guide mechanism.
Length over the buffers approximately 10.1 cm / 4″. DC wheel set E700580.