I model the steam era on my layout and I am wondering how long freight trains were back then compared to their American counterparts. Generally American engines were larger and had longer distances to go. I believe also that sidings were shorter which would limit the length of the train, perhaps 100 freight cars were about the limit. I also realize the tracks were not all uniform and could not handle heavier engines in some areas. Now in modern times perhaps they are longer then they were in the steam era - Fred

Due to coupler strength limitations trains are much shorter than here in the US. Double heading is not the norm. Here one can see 5 or more Loks pulling a mile + long train.

On a model, 15+ wagons is a very satisfying Eurotrain.

I wonder if Mehmet will be fined by the DB when he exceeded the limits

Received my 6/2015 Insider magazine today, and it includes a couple of photos of the Br95 prototype locos, one of it being used as a pusher on the Spessart climb between Laufach and Heigenbrucken during Spring 1946, and I can count at least 43 boxcars similar to those in the set that Marklin is producing to go with the new model. In this photo the train is wending its way around a curve on the hill and you can't see the front of the train.

The other photo is a Carl Bellingrodt one, taken in 1935, of a Br95 pulling a similar train of boxcars with about 30 boxcars in the photo (I can count up to about 20 wagons before the resolution of the picture gets too bad to distinguish individual wagons), and the caption says this photo is the inspiration for the boxcar set that is to accompany the model loco.

Both photos have a reasonable number of wagons with Bremserhaus dotted along the train, and a reasonable mix of low profile and raised roof wagons, so the mix of boxcars in the set will be a pretty good representation.