4-part "Pop-colored DC train" set of the Deutsche Bundesbahn.
UIC-X car: new design 2020!
All of the cars have separately attached plug-in parts and prototypical buffer height
More than 6,145 DB express train wagons are referred to as UIC-X wagons, which were put into service from 1952 and some of them ran for half a century in express trains and in intercity traffic. These cars had a level of comfort that was previously unknown in Europe. The development of express train passenger cars in the new standard length of 26.4 m was initiated in 1950. The Westwaggon wagon factory in Cologne-Deutz was in charge here, according to the specifications of the wagon construction and purchasing department of the Federal Railway Central Office in Minden. All cars were equipped with Minden-Deutz type bogies.
Prototype: At the end of the 1960s, DB was considering how it could give its fleet of vehicles a modern and friendly look. From 1970 to 1974 they experimented with new, lighter colors, the basic color of the car bodies of all vehicles being pebble gray. The roofs were painted in umbra gray. Most passenger coaches had a decorative stripe in pebble gray and a decorative stripe in the color of the respective window band over the frame. The eye-catching vehicles were popularly referred to as "pop cars". Six different window colors including decorative stripes were used on almost all types of DB express train passenger cars.
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