Tankvagn Zans "GATX" typ ZSSK

Tankvagn Zans 'GATX' typ ZSSK

Type Zans Tank Car

Model
The car's trucks are the modern type welded Y25 Lsd1 with double brake shoes. The car has a brakeman's platform and a ladder on the end. The brake rigging, discharge pipes, dome cover, safety bars, and numerous other levers and grab irons are separately applied. The car has rectangular buffers, 6 tank bands, and large address boards. Length over the buffers approximately 19.6 cm / 7-3/4'. AC wheelset E700150.

Prototype
Type Zans four-axle, 95 cubic meter / 25,096 gallon tank car with an uninsulated tank, a ladder on the end, and a funnel flow tank. Privately owned car for KVG Austria with advertising for 'GATX', used on ZSSK, registered in Slovakia. The car looks as it did in 2010.

This model can be found with another car number in an AC version in the Märklin H0 assortment under item number 47542.

Operator address is still 'KVG'.Car imprinted at the ends.