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The DB buyed two or three of this schnabelcars (we call them TRAGSCHNABELWAGEN) - type Uaai 839 - sometimes between 1970 and 1972. The cars were built by KRUPP at Essen. This cars are maximum loaded (something between 660 and 700 tons) the heaviest RR cars in Europe until today. We need in Europe more axles because the maximum weight per axle is only about 25 tons at mainlines. BTW: I know that a similar car, also built by KRUPP, was delivered to North America , don´t ask for the road I found a webside - think comes from UK - with much photos of this real monster in the old (like my one) scheme. http://www.polar.sunynassau.edu/~fanellis/schnabel.html More about the prototype: And when the final destination isn´t reachable with rails, in sometimes about 90 minutes the schnabel´s with the load can be uncoupled from the railtrucks. They will be replaced by a special designed diesel-hydraulic selfpowered heavyload streetcar built by SCHEUERLE, named LS250 "HEULER". At the end of this year Maerklin will bring a modell in the new red DBAG scheme [url="http://www.maerklin.de/produkte/frontend/index.php?page=detail&artikel_nr=18820&show=neuheit&katalog=15"] Photo [/url] And one or the prototype consists was rebuild into a 24 axle car - Type Uaai 838 -: The bridge between the two outside spanbolsters at each side was shortend and modified so that outside is only a 4 axle truck. then the schnabel was shorted. A model of this car - with a MAN shipdiesel - was produced by Maerklin in 2003.[url="http://www.minitrix.de/produkte/frontend/image.php?bezeichnung=Tragschnabel&nr=24019&picname=24019.jpg"] Picture of Uaai 838[/url]
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