Roco 6200090 3-piece set (1): "IR 1617", SBB

Set (1) with two carriages and a baggage car for the Interregio train 1617 of the Swiss State 
Railways.

The set contains two 2nd class carriages EW-II, type B, and one baggage car, type D.

■ EW-II carriage in green paint with comfort stripes

Carriages with non-smoking/smoking partitions

An express train from the year 1995

The train in the picture ran via Delsberg to Basel, but came from Brig as IR 51. Its construction is 
typical of that time and carried the express train carriages D EW II, 2 A EW IV and 4 B EW II on the 
line 
Brig-Lausanne-Biel-Basel/Zürich-Romanshorn (hourly service, Brig-Lausanne not hourly service and 
Brig-Sion 
as regional train).

The number of A EW IVs made it possible to equip 1st class long-distance express trains with 
modern 
carriages. In contrast, the 2nd class still only had to make do with slightly modernized EW IIs 
("comfort stripes", internally referred to as B(r)). Re 4/4 IIs usually pulled these trains. 
However, it was not 
uncommon for these locomotives to be replaced by Re 460s. Depending on the time of day 
and the route, reinforcement cars (usually 1 or 2 B EW I, if necessary for the Zurich area 
also an additional A EW I) and 1-2 Z or Z2 were coupled to side D or side B of the train, 
depending on the operational advantage.