Attached for those interest are images of the brochure for the SVT 137 "Hamburg Design" Railcar one time item 37770 from 2004. The leaflet adds significantly to the info from the 2005 catalogue (page 134)

Apologies for the somewhat blurry state of the images - I had to photograph it because it's quite large (approx. A1 size) scanning would require several refolds of it and a high risk of damage. I am still practicing with photographing items like this to get the best light, resolution, skew etc but hopefully some will find it interesting.

The poster-design leaflets are good in some respects, particularly if you want to mount it as a poster, but to have to fold it out to read or refer to is a bit of a pain.

Hope it's interesting for some

Edited by user 20 April 2013 22:58:48(UTC)  | Reason: Typo - added "S"

Nice brochure cookee, I had not seen it before. Found this one on eBay earlier in the year, took it with us when we visited member Chris6382chris. It looked great on Chris's awesome layout.






Gordon

Yep, I've got 37772 as well, it's one of my favourite railcars. I also recently got the 1 Gauge version as well.

Nice!

Pictures of 37772.

Hi Steve,

I query your use of "VT 137" instead of "SVT 137" - which is the model portrayed in the brochure.
I can see that the brochure does use the VT in one place but that refers to an interim development stage.

Conversely, I acknowledge the DRG SVT137 became DB VT04s but would like to know when/how they transitioned to SVT04s.
Even the Cover of the Marklin Documentation for the 37772/37774 states "Modell des VT 04.5"

What gives?

My Correction

... transitioned to SVT04s.
Should be
... transitioned FROM SVT04s.

However the questions remain
.. which clasification changes caused the downgrading (removal of the schell)
.. the 501 was different because it was upgraded with hydraulic transmission. Before that it was SVT04 105 (i.e. SVT137 to DB initially changed to SVT04 1xx range for a short period of time). So when exactly did this loco run as SVT04 501 and not SVT04 105 or VT04 501? (and did it really run as this rouge SVT04 501 in both liveries depicted by Märklin?)

Hi!
"SVT 137" hardly classifies anything as rail cars were treated like coaches and were given numbers in the 137xxx range as they came.

SVT stands for "Schnellverbrennungstriebwagen" (Schnell = fast, Verbrennungstriebwagen = rail car with combustion engine).

"SVT 137" included rail cars with two, three, and four units and both diesel-electrics and diesel-hydraulics.
Same class didn't even get consecutive numbers.

SVT 877 was the prototype, initially without automatic couplers and always running alone. Bauart Hamburg was designed for multi-unit operation from the start.

In post-war Germany, high-speed rail lines were low priority - and in the '50s new rail cars were built (VT 08.5, VT 11.5 used in the TEE network) so the pre-war "SVT" were no longer state of the art and electric locos were in the focus of high-speed development.

A diesel rail car with a maximum speed of 160 km/h (100 mph) was fast in the steam age. But with E 10 (150 km/h) and E 10.12 (160 km/h) there were new stars (used in the TEE network).

Thanks for posting that brochure, very interesting.
Beautiful also in DB Red and Blue.

Mine is the TRIX 22010 SVT137.
Livery is quite similar pattern as the Blue one.

Runs very smooth and is quite heavy (all metal).
Decoder lacks the engine sound however.

There were 13 of "Bauart Hamburg": SVT 137 149–152, 224–232

With the "brothers" of Bauart Leipzig, Bauart Köln, Bauart Berlin you get a total of 33.

Plus the "Flying Hamburger" SVT 877 makes 34.

There also was SVT 137 155 - somewhat the prototype of post-war VT 10.5 and VT 11.5.

Thanks Steven, as shown here.....

http://www.modellbahn.com/SVT.Railcars.html

Cheers

Steve