BRAWA 50560 - H0 tank car 6-axle ZZh "VEB Gährungschemie Dessau" DR

BRAWA 50560 - H0 tank car 6-axle ZZh "VEB Gährungschemie Dessau" DR

Role model information

For the increasing needs of the armaments industry and for other war-important transports, H. Fuchs Waggonfabrik AG in Heidelberg, among others, manufactured 6-axle tank wagons for transporting acids in the early 1940s. The wagons had a riveted underframe, riveted bogies and were equipped with hand brakes and a Hildebrand-Knorr freight train brake. The container was a 10-layer welded construction and had 40 mm thick insulation and a heater with connections at the non-handbrake end. A transition platform with a brakeman's cab was attached to the handbrake end.

With a capacity of just under 40 cubic meters, the boiler was comparatively small. However, due to the distribution over six axles, the average axle load was quite low and the cars could also be used fully loaded on routes with a lighter superstructure. The boilers could only be filled and emptied from above, as bottom valves were previously not permitted on wagons used to transport acid. The vehicles, which were mostly used as private cars by large chemical industry factories at the Deutsche Reichsbahn, were used to transport their products between the various locations.

Model details

Bogie with three-point bearings
Extra spring packs
Extra brake system
Finely engraved bogies
Brake shoes at wheel level
Free-standing handlebars
Extra axle brake linkage

Technical details

Length over buffer: 155 mm
Short coupling kinematics: installed
AC wheelset replacement: possible
AC wheelset: BRAWA order no . 2187

VEB Gährungschemie Dessau is a registered trademark.

 

Characteristics:

Manufacturer:	BRAWA
Item number:	50560
number of pieces:	1 piece
EAN:	4012278505602
track:	H0
scale:	1:87
model series:	Tank wagon 6-axle ZZ[P] Fuchs
Company number:	27 50 076 3009-6 [P]
Railway company:	DR
country:	EN
epoch:	IV
Wheel set replacement:	yes - possible
AC wheelset:	BRAWA order no. 2187
Electricity system:	DC
operation mode:	DC analogue
Length over buffers:	155mm
coupling:	NEM 362 shaft with KK kinematics
Age recommendation:	14 years and older
WEEE no.:	DE14862574