Märklin 46661 Container Transport Wagon Laabs

A Highly Creative Idea
Volkswagen and the German Federal Railway (Deutsche Bundesbahn) developed a highly creative idea 
when they signed a contract in 1959 for the rail transport of engines and transmissions between the 
various Volkswagen production plants. The solution consisted of standardized containers that could 
be transported on short-coupled double units of converted Rm(r)so 31 type stake wagons. These wagons 
now had only flat superstructures with wooden floors, on which the support frames for the containers 
were mounted. Each double unit could hold six containers, filled with either 36 engines or 96 
transmissions. In 1966, the container wagons for engine and transmission transport began operating 
between Hanover and Wolfsburg, Emden and Ingolstadt, and later also to Brussels, departing from 
Kassel-Baunatal. From 1970 onward, Salzgitter, Neckarsulm, Stuttgart, and Osnabrück (Karman) were 
added as further destinations.

Highlights
Driver figure rotating in the direction of travel
Telex coupling at the front and rear
Coupling waltz
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