Hello,

I know prototypically that rolling stock is often quite mixed. This is highlighted with new items such as 00792.



My question is, would it be acceptable to mix item numbers 43138/43139 with say 43351?
I would like to lengthen the consist as only 4 cars is a bit short and the only other era3 red coaches I can find is 43351 (think there is another one but do not know item number).
Also note the Marklin image of 43351 looks brighter than what it actually is (see last image of 43351).






Thanks!

I have the 28508 set:



The red coaches here would also go nicely with your thunderboxes

On my layout I often run this train with extra green umbauwagen to make a longer train. The mixture of red and green coaches is quite pleasing!

hi,
if you want to be prototypically correct you should keep in mind that era III is divided into IIIa and IIIb, the changeover is at abaout 1955/1956 and brought among other changes the following :
- no more 3 classes in the trains, only the first and second remained (better to say, 3 became 2 and 2 became 1).
- the introduction of the DB cookie
- the introduction of the triple headlights (A) from 1957 on

so if your layout shall represent IIIa means : no DB cookies, 2 headlights on locos, class 2 and class 3 for trains.
for IIIb : no class 3 coaches, DB cookie, triple headlights

of course these changes were not in place from one day to another and some models of our good mother M don't reflect this exactly, a current example is the new BR 23 (39230) which shall represent the state of 1951 and has 3 headlights.

but most important : what you like to look at is always the best !!!!