I recently purchased three of these wagons after hearing about them from Mike C. A couple of convenient things about them is that they can be ordered with Marklin wheelsets (installed) and couplers (you intall). The cars are diecast metal, well painted, and come with two types of carrying plates for the containers, one with a pin and the other with a hole. There is no underbody detailing so they look better loaded and there is that much to see on the prototype anyway. The first picture shows the car with a few of the mounting plates that have fallen off. There are different plates for the resting (down position) and the load position Flipped up for the container). I glued all my load position plates in the up position as MoBaBro suggests.





The cars don't come with containers, though you can order them from MoBaBro separately. I added these two with no issues, they fit right on the plates with holes. I prefer containers with pins. The packing insures that the cars will arrive in good shape.






This last picture shows the instructions for mounting plates and detail parts



Regards,
Roger

They do fall off but are easy to mount back on. They snap on like the "Kombi" ones do. The issue is the "mounting plates" are to scale, small and thin, so there is not a lot of clamping force where they snap on. MoBaBro recommends gluing them. I like the cars a lot, they run well out of the box. I had to modify the Kombi-Modell cars, used a Dremel to grind clearance for Marklin depth wheel flanges.

Roger

Thanks for the information.
I am interested in these types of cars.
Are Mobabro prices about the same as Märklin?

With these different types of container mountings it makes me wonder why NEM has not established a 1:87 standard like everything else.
The current situation is restrictive and annoying.

Kimball

There is an NEM standard for containers.
https://www.morop.org/images/NEM...380_de_2023_20240824.pdf only in German unforunately.

I don't know Dave. I haven't any R2 turnouts and none with lanterns. They aren't very long.

Roger

I have a number of models and containers that are supposed to adhere to NEM rules, but the containers don't fit the cars or vice versa. It can be that the spacing on the pins/sockets is too far apart or too close or that the pins/sockets on the cars are also off by a millimetre.
On Kombimodell, only one set of fixations are used. On others (Maerklin, Fleischmann, B Models, etc) it is designed to fit all the slots. Roco has a different system than the edge of the containers.

Of my Maerklin cars, I have noticed that the 45 Foot "Geest" containers on the 47051.006 doesn't sit happily. I think that the issue is with the spacing of the pins on the Herpa container.
I also have some Kombimodell 30 foot Bertschi and Rinnen Tanks with pins that do not fit on the Maerklin Sgns car (47051.XXX)

Regards

Mike C

I received my first three (2 Hupac, 1 Wascosa) Mobabro models yesterday. Now I have to decide on the loads (45 foot containers (sockets), 23 foot swap tanks (sockets) or trailers (kingpin))
I tested the supplied mounts with some Kombimodell/Herpa containers and found that they do not support the load as well as I had expected. I think that it is likely that they will run with trailers for now.




Regards

Mike C

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