CFR carriages in Greece

[BarbaPanagos]

another one, short but informative video of the CFR AcBcmee at Rentis, from Basilis Gian https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y5I5CqtTwwg

[R-460]

Hello,

here is a model of a CFR AcBcmee series 40-70. The cars which came to Greece were series 40-31, but as far as I understood, the only difference are the bogies. The 40-70s have MD36 bogies for Vmax=160, the 40-31 were equipped by CFR with Görlitz V bogies for Vmax=140, which seems to be enough for domestic trains in Romania as well as for travelling in the balcans...The origin of both CFR series is DB type Bctm256, built 1967-1970, later Boctm257, even later Bocmh244. CFR bought in 2006 about half of all cars of this type. By the way, does anybody know a railway company in the Balkan area which did NOT buy second-hand cars from DB?
Pictures by Florin Vornicu, posted with his kind permission.

All the best,
Stefan

[BarbaPanagos]

nice find Stefan! I think you are right about the differences
is this a commercial model or a private conversion?

regards
Panagiotis

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[R-460]

Hello Panagiotis,
thank you for your appreciation.
It's something in between A conversion of LS 46077 made on demand by one of the most skilful modelers in Romania.

Regards,
Stefan

[BarbaPanagos]

''...one of the most skillful modelers in Romania''

this is advanced modeling indeed!!!

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[BarbaPanagos]

CFR sleeping car, part of the Budapest - Bukarest - Sofia - Thessaloniki Night Train of the 21/04/2002 photo: Günther Glauz



I think there is a model but with a different CFR logo. Do you know more?

all the 4 coaches (2 MAV, 1 BDZ, 1 CFR) of this train, here http://www.bahnbilder.de/name/galerie/k ... wagen.html

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[Olympus]

Panagiotis;
this years has Tillig not WLABm coaches under News
(and the BDZ WLABm model is a Project from Memoba)

Tillig has only this CFR model in program with old CFR logo
(number 74778)

[BarbaPanagos]

I'm thrilled with this model
Thanks to Stefan who got the base model (LS 46077), ordered the right boggies, made the arrangements for the conversion, collected it from Romania and posted it to me

CFR 61 53 40-31 028-8 AcBcmee

[R-460]

One more picture of the blue CFR "Y" WLAB with the new logo, taken by me at Bucharest Nord in Aug. 1999:

Here the model, a private conversion from Romania, as neither Tillig nor Roco have made this version yet:

All the best,
Stefan

[BarbaPanagos]

A great conversion Stefan! My compliments to fellow Romanian modelers!
Now you can model the 2002 Budapest - Thessaloníki Night Train!

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