The locomotive represents the operating condition of the early 1950s and is therefore ideal for covering the trains of the "blue F-Zug network" of that time
With raised signs
Die-cast metal chassis ; "The€œ blue F-train network €of Era III has long been a legend: the Bundesbahn offered fast long-distance trains as early as 1951. The steel-blue painted cars
also impressed with the multi-colored printing on the side members. The raised silver DB letters were decorated in the middle of the car. All "blue"
Trains - with the exception of two connections with foreign contacts - carried only 2nd class. The 2nd class corresponded to the three-class system that had been in effect until then
until the class reform in the summer of 1956, when the old plush class was dropped, the 1st class, which is still in force today. A metal sign covered class number 1, which not always
was implemented consistently, as a number of model photos show. "