Model #880901 - Fleischmann 5-part wagon set "Marine-Museum" (Naval Museum) of the DB

System	Country	Era	Railway
N	Germany	III	DB

Product Features and Details

The Model:
Containing: 1 low-loader wagon with brake platforms, loaded with a U-boat, 1 stake wagon with load, 1 open goods wagon, loaded with wooden barrels, 1 box goods wagon and 1 DEA tanker wagon.

Based on:
During the 1950s the railways had particularly difficult challenges to face. In the Federal Republic of Germany, the initial stages of the "Wirtschaftswunder" (Economic Miracle) made tremendous demands in respect of transport. The roads were still in a bad condition. As a result, ships as transport operators and, in particular, the railways as the mainspring of the transport industry, were of vital importance. In the large harbours of the North Sea and the Baltic, with their extensive track systems, a wide variety of goods was unloaded and reloaded - this included bulk goods such as coal and ore, as well as specialized types of freight. Whereas nowadays standardized containers (container wagons) predominate in freight transport, in the 1950s there were a great many different types of wagon for all sorts of uses: open and covered wagons, low-loader wagons, low-sided wagons (with and without stakes), tanker wagons and other special wagons for transporting goods in liquid or gaseous form. The goods wagons often dated from the time of the Länderbahn (Regional Railways). The two FLEISCHMANN-N-Sets 880901 and 880902 thus present an example of real life history.