Tariff conditions on the one hand and technical conditions on the other led all state railroad administrations to develop covered freight cars with almost the same dimensions and load weights. These were wagons with a wheelbase of 4.5 m, a length over buffers of 9.3 m with unbraked wagons, a load weight of 15 tons, later 17.5 tons and a floor area of about 21 square meters. This type of freight car became the most important and widely built covered wagon of all, they originally carried the class designation Gm. The most common of these state railcars was the one according to the Prussian model sheet IId8, of which 47,533 were built alone. After the founding of the German State Railway Wagon Association DWV in 1909, the A2 association wagon was developed from it. It was built from 1911 in a total number of no less than 121,770 units. This made it the most built covered freight wagon in the world. It dominated the image of German freight trains until the beginning of Era 3. Due to two world wars these wagons were scattered all over Europe, there was no European railroad administration that did not use such wagons at least temporarily.
Model Details
-Pictorially accurate frame construction
-Accurate replica of the sheet metal joints
-Brake rods and wheels made of metal
-Specially attached signal holder
-Brake shoes in wheel level
-Specially attached axle bearing cover
-Specially attached axle bearing cover
-Brake shoes in wheel level
-Precise body supports
-Precise printing and painting
-Specially attached axle bearing cover
