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Sunday, August 3, 2025

EuroCity 344/345 "Avala" (Vienna-Belgrade 1991)

A while back, ACME released two car sets to recreate the EuroCity 344/345 "Avala" from Vienna to Belgrade around 1991. There were:

  • ACME 55074: 4-piece car set “Avala” consisting of 1x Alm and 3x Bl, Ep. IVb-V


  • ACME 55310: 3-piece car set “Avala” consisting of 2x Bl and 1x WRm (Spiesewagen), Ep. IVb-V


 

It's a beautiful formation but it was lacking the locomotive V43 from MÁV, as shown on the box and catalog:




 

Piko released one at the time, but it was too recent as it displayed MÁV START which is a very recent name for the passenger service. The correct version just got released:

Piko 51447

 

I gave it the DCC address of 4365: