Spur G - Art.No. 36380 - SOEG Baggage Car

This is a baggage car for the Zittau Narrow Gauge Railroad as it currently looks in use on the SOEG.

This is new tooling for a baggage car on the Zittau Narrow Gauge Railroad.
The car has a prototypical paint scheme and lettering.
It also has metal solid wheelsets.
Length over the buffers 57.5 cm / 22-5/8".

Four-axle baggage car originally built for the German Reichsbahn Company as a so-called “standard luggage car”, which was taken over by the German Reichsbahn (DR) of the GDR after the Second World War and was initially used in its original form. It was given the generic name “KD 4” by the DR. In the GDR, all narrow-gauge railways belonged to the DR, including the Weißeritztalbahn. The wagon master responsible for this railway was of the opinion that the storage space available in these luggage wagons would not be sufficient for the load to be transported. He therefore sought to modernize some of the baggage carts at the Perleberg repair shop. As part of this, in which only the chassis and the roof were continued to be used, the cars were given new car bodies with only one end platform. The new, internal generic name was now: KD 4 mod. When the cars were put back into operation, the train attendants were so dissatisfied that - assuming the vehicle was lined up in the middle between the passenger cars - they could no longer walk from the baggage car to the next passenger car on one side. As a result, these “single-tier” baggage cars now always had to be lined up at the end or beginning of the train, which in turn caused many problems in operational processing. After the reunification and privatization of many narrow-gauge railways, the phenomenon occurred that some modernized baggage cars of the Döllnitzbahn, the Sächsische Dampfbahngesellschaft mbH (SDG) and the Sächsisch-Oberlausitzer-Eisenbahngesellschaft (SOEG) were further modernized or operationally optimized, in which they became their second stage got it back, of course now on the new car body.