This 'RAILTRANS' company wagon is widely used in block trains for the transport of offcuts and sawdust, salvaged paper and textiles and operated in Austria and Eastern Europe by the carrier Rail & Sea Sped. GmbH of Stasswalchen near Salzberg and also in Germany where the Salzburg based Salzburger Eisenbahn TransportLogistik GmbH (SETG) operates with locomotives of the Mittelweserbahn (MWB). |
These wagons shuttle between sawmills, paper factories and recycling plants throughout Europe. |
This wagon type affords a load volume of 100 square metres at least 10% greater than similar wagons of the same length. The wagon is loaded from the top (opening 12.57 x 2 metres) and may be covered by a net or lid. Unloading is by large front hinges (the whole wagon being tipped over). |
Many of these goods wagons have been converted in France on the frames of older wagons and are predominantly registered and licensed with SNCF and SNCB. The overall length between the buffers is 14.02 metres, the wheelbase 8.50 metres, the tare 14.5 tonnes and the laden weight 25.5 tonnes). |
In order to achieve the full volume and utilise the maximum permissible clearance, the buffer height above the rails reduces to the minimum of 1070mm.The suspension is specially adapted so that the buffers can be prevented from dropping below the minimum height when fully loaded. |
In Austria these strikingly painted wagons (RAL 6018) shuttle for example between a sawmill in Sollenau and a paper mill north of Graz on the Sudbahnstrecke as also between Ybbs/Donau and Waldhausen to Frantschach-St. Gertraud. |
The original white lettering appears a rusty reddish orange after long use due to ingrained brake-dust. |
Like the original, the model carries a small graffito |
