| Transfer Train Car Set.
5 different German Federal Railroad (DB) freight cars.
Livestock car with sliding doors that can be opened. Low side car with board walls. Loaded with terracotta tub containers. Flat car with removable stakes. Loaded with 2 truck frames in a load framework. Gondola with hinged roof hatches that can be opened. Freight train baggage car with separately applied brake rigging.
Source: www.maerklin.de
The German State Railroad Company introduced the concept transfer train as early as 1928. This is used to designate short freight trains that bring individual cars from industrial railroads, industry sidings or loading ramps to the so-called transfer yards. Several of these short trains are coupled together in these yards to form the long, heavy freight trains that will travel much further, and the freight loads will reach their national and international destinations. |
