| Express Train Passenger Car Set as Long Distance Express / F-Zug 4 Merkur.
4 different design German Federal Railroad (DB) express train passenger cars in the version as long distance express / F-Zug 4 Merkur, for the route Hamburg Altona - Frankfurt/Main or Stuttgart. 3 type A4üm-61 express train passenger cars, 1st class, cobalt blue basic paint scheme. 1 type WR4üg(e) express train dining car, ruby red basic paint scheme of the German Sleeping and Dining Car Company (DSG). The cars look as they did around 1963.
Source: www.maerklin.de
The German Federal Railroads Fast Long Distance Express Trains - At the start of the Fifties the new German Federal Railroad reached back to the prewar tradition of the legendary FD trains (long distance express trains) and came up with a new train class with the F-Zügen (international long distance express trains and domestic long distance express trains). These consists were run almost exclusively with 1st class cars and consisted of special cars for important long distance service. The route network for these trains was also called the blue long distance train network because of the blue paint scheme for these passenger cars. The muted red of the Mitropa dining cars used on these trains contrasted effectively with the rest of the cars provided the typically dignified look of these long distance trains so highly valued by passengers in the Fifties and Sixties of the last century. |
