Hi all,
43256 Review
Overview:I have been interested in this set for a long time, but the information regarding car running numbers and time period has been almost non-existent. This thread may alleviate that problem, as the search engines will pick it up pretty quickly. I have produced images to cover each car in the set.
MattJ70 member on this forum has posted a very useful video of the set in use.
43256 video Maerklin released the 43256 passenger car set in 2014, for Insider members, and was designed to be pulled by the Insider locomotive for that year, the cab-forward 05 003 (article #39053). See later in the article for the various choices I made for locos to haul this train.
It is advertised as running in the late 1930s, consisting of 6 cars for a Berlin to Stuttgart train. I personally use it for a train after 1946, but again, running how or when is modellers licence. I note that Fleischmann also released separate cars in 2004 for a similar train, in their number series 84585x. These are different car types, with destination Munich, so if you wish to run representative trains of the time, these might complement the Marklin set. As you will see later, I added one of the Fleischmann cars to my own consist.
Firstly, here is the Marklin description in English - I acknowledge their copyright.
Prototype:
6 different design German State Railroad (DRB) express train passenger cars. Version as D 12 for the train route Berlin - Stuttgart.
1 type C4ü-23 "Hechtwagen" / "Pike Car" express train passenger car, 3rd class.
1 type WR4ü(39) MITROPA "Schürzenwagen" / "Skirted Car" dining car.
1 type AB4ü-38 "Schürzenwagen" / "Skirted Car" express train passenger car, 1st/2nd class.
1 type C4ü-39 "Schürzenwagen" / "Skirted Car" express train passenger car, 3rd class.
1 type Pw4ü-23 "Hechtwagen" / "Pike Car" express train baggage car.
1 type Post4ü-a German State Postal System "Schürzenwagen" / "Skirted Car" express train mail car.
The cars look as they did at the end of the Thirties. The mail car comes with factory-installed lighted upper marker lights at one end.Car numbering:The car numbers are as follows:
Post 4ü 4815 Stg Schürzenwagen
Pw4ü 105105 Stg Hecht
C4ü 16009 Stg Hecht
Speisewagen 1206 MITROPA Schürzenwagen
C4üe 19360 Stg Schürzenwagen
AB4üe 11689 Stg Schürzenwagen
Description, suitable locos, and running notes:Marklin say the set is a model of D12, on the journey from Berlin to Stuttgart via Leipzig and Munich. All cars in this set belonged to the Stuttgart car pool, as shown by the Stg after the running number. The typical motive power would have been one of the more powerful steam locomotives such as the BR39, BR05, BR03 or BR01. In the electrified sections, the E18 and E19, and perhaps the E17, were the motive power of choice.
This car set has 3 cars for passengers, one restaurant car, one postal sorting car, and one baggage car. The postal car is designed to be the last car in the train, as small working red working (LED) end lights have been fitted in the roof top. All the cars have representative interiors in appropriate colouring. No interior lighting is supplied but lighting kits can be installed in all of the cars. To carry the current between each of the cars, the 7319 or the 72020/72021 current-conducting couplers can be used.
I have set up lighting in these types of cars using the Marklin accessory without problems.
On close inspection, each car has a lubrication plate showing March of 1940. The cars are to Marklin's high standard of finish, and no doubt are familiar to many, because they have been reproduced in dozens of colour schemes, and in sets, since the late 1990s. So my photographs are designed to highlight some particular detail.
As well as the fine lettering for destination, and on the sides and undercarriage, the cars are marked with the train position number, as follows:
16009 C4üe car #6
11689 AB4üe car #7
19360 C4üe car #8
I would suggest that the speisewagen would have been marshalled next to car #7, the AB (1st/2nd class car). So perhaps between cars 7 and 8.
Here is an example of the car position number attached above the destination blind:
Details and photos of each car:Firstly, the
passenger cars are as follows.
the AB4ü-38 is car number 11689 Stg. Stg means it belonged to the Stuttgart car pool. It has compartments for both 1st and 2nd class.
The C4ü-23 Hecht car is running number 16009 Stg. This car is 3rd class only, presumably with no upholstery on the seats.
Here is a picture of the other 3rd class car, the skirted C4üe #19360. (Schurzenwagen).
The other 3 cars are the restaurant (speisewagen) car, the baggage and the mail car.
The restaurant car has been modelled before in other DSG schemes, and here it is pre-1945, bearing the MITROPA brand.
Speisewagen 1206 MITROPA Schürzenwagen
The seating end.
The baggage car has also been modelled by Marklin for other eras.
Pw4ü 105105 Stg Hecht
The mail car is quite an iconic model, with skylights in the roof to aid letter sorting in daylight, and tiny LED end-of-train markers in the car roof end. A photo of the marker lamps when lit is shown later. You can see the current pick-up under the bogie, and the little lamps in the roof above.
Post 4ü 4815 Stg Schürzenwagen
Additions:In order to make my train up to 7 cars, I added a 3rd class compartment car (un-skirted from the 1935 DRG car build program) using the Fleischmann catalogue #845854 for the same era. The car is #16582, from the car pool at Munich.
Close examination of the destination blind at the side shows it is running in a Berlin-Munich train, but I am using it anyway.
The roof is silver, unlike the dark grey of the Marklin units. The overall green with ivory striping, is almost a perfect match, as shown photographed end to end with a Marklin 3rd class car. The Fleischmann is the car on the right.
Summing up:An extra 3 passenger cars to make 9 in all, (perhaps a sleeper or two if used to model an overnight train) would be a prototypical length, though many of us would find that difficult to run on a layout.
In this operational sequence, the fireman looks back over the tender top as 05 003 backs onto the train in the fading evening light. It has just been brought in by an E18 electric, and the BR 05 steam engine is scheduled to continue the journey into the night.
I took this photo to show the end lights (LED) in the Post car.
Kimball
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