| Orient Express 1928 CIWL Express Train Passenger Car Set
The cars are finely constructed models with many separately applied details. The interiors come in different colors. The cars have different car numbers. The end car of the set has retracted diaphragms with raised crossover plates. The doors on the baggage car can be opened. All of the cars have factory-installed LED interior lighting and all of the cars have factory-installed current-conducting couplers. The table lamps in the dining car are lighted. The baggage car has a pickup shoe for picking up power.
These cars are considered right to the present as the icon for the absolute best in travel comfort: the cars of the Orient Express. This set with its five cars in different designs brings back the heyday of travelling by train. Exclusively issued in H0 as the branch train Paris-Karlsbad-Prag-Express. A must for every collector and model railroader.
The Paris - Karlsbad - Prag - Express running in the summer months. The cars of this train ran together with the Orient-Express to Stuttgart, and 2 cars were added in Stuttgart. 5 different design Compagnie Internationale des Wagons-Lits et des Grands Express Européens (CIWL) cars. 2 each baggage cars, 2 each sleeping cars, and 1 dining car in the blue paint scheme. The cars look as they did in 1922 - 1928.
Source: www.maerklin.de
The Orient Express was a long-distance passenger train service created in 1883 by Compagnie Internationale des Wagons-Lits (CIWL) that operated until 2009.
The route and rolling stock of the Orient Express changed many times. Several routes in the past concurrently used the Orient Express name, or slight variations. Although the original Orient Express was simply a normal international railway service, the name became synonymous with intrigue and luxury rail travel. The two city names most prominently associated with the Orient Express are Paris and Istanbul, the original endpoints of the timetabled service. The Orient Express was a showcase of luxury and comfort at a time when travelling was still rough and dangerous.
In 1977, the Orient Express stopped serving Istanbul. Its immediate successor, a through overnight service from Paris to Bucharest, was later cut back in 1991 to Budapest, and in 2001 was again shortened to Vienna, before departing for the last time from Paris on Friday 8 June 2007. |
