LGB L30142 G Passenger car MD 3 of Jagsttalbahn

Travels like Grandma
We write the 1960 years. It was the time when a modern Federal Railways had long broken into a new age. But there was still a narrow-gauge railway in the Swabian Bottwartal, on which the German Railways used their last two-axle wooden box cars from the time the Royal Württemberg state railways operated in daily operations. They offered trips at the same time as at grandmother's times at the flower-pick-allowed pace, while at the same time TEA trains sailed through the country at 160 km/h. This was over in 1966 and the old-fashioned wooden-class classic cars were set to migrate to the scrap metal. But then, in 1967, on the nearby Jagsttalbahn, the long-standing passenger traffic for the transport of pupils was resumed. As the operator of the route, SWEG searched for low-cost vehicles and took over four Bottwartal Rail cars from the Federal Railways as M-D 1, 2, 3 and 4. The school trains drove up to 1979 and the youth enjoyed the special driving experience with wooden benches and open platforms again and again. From 1971 onwards, the Württemberg team also formed the basis for the extremely successful operation of the historic train on the scenic and at least 39 kilometers long Jagsttal railway. Wagon M-D 3 remained in operation until the line was stopped. He is currently in Dörzbach and is waiting for his work to be completed. It is a real gem, because the two-axle service in 1924 is the last fully received copy of this most built model Württemberg 750 mm narrow-gauge passenger wagon. And the new LGB model reminds perfectly (with the towing tender locomotive 798,101) of the fascinating, 125-year history of the Jagsttalbahn.

Model of passenger car MD 3 to the 125-year anniversary of the Jagsttal railway in Moss-green coloring, as this car was driven in the 1980s on the Jagsttal railways, discontinued at SWEG. Operating condition circa 1983. Wagon with metal wheel sets.

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