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Saturday, March 23, 2024

Autorack Ars Altmann


There are quite a few Ars Altmann trains pulled by Lineas and Roco released what looks like those autorack wagons, or so I thought ...


Formations

A few of the formations I've recorded:

https://www.flickr.com/photos/195041659@N08/52836561893/

https://www.flickr.com/photos/johnybrauns/52779916109/

https://www.flickr.com/photos/wdaelmans/50831839208/

https://www.flickr.com/photos/102645470@N03/50683847262/

https://www.flickr.com/photos/pasmartens/50523535203/


A couple of videos:




Prototypical wagon


The company Ars Altmann actually has the exact type of wagons on its website:

https://www.ars-altmann.de/en/services/rail/


Here are the details for those 3 wagons:

https://www.ars-altmann.de/wp-content/uploads/2022/09/Datenblatt_ARS_Hccrrs5.870.pdf

https://www.ars-altmann.de/wp-content/uploads/2022/09/Datenblatt_Hccrrs-5.860.pdf

https://www.ars-altmann.de/wp-content/uploads/2022/09/Datenblatt_Hccrrs-5.833M.pdf


Miniature model

Roco recently (in 2024) released a set of type Hccrrs wagons with the Ars Altmann livery. It is reference 77049:






As it turns out, Roco released similar wagons in the past:



A couple of videos from the models released in 2022:





Conclusion

Unfortunately, it is not exactly the same wagon. The differences are pretty obvious on the roof and the location of the break wheel, just to name a few.



This is not it. Very tempting, but this is not it ...