" Finely detailed models with separately attached handle bars and steps.
Ideal for forming block trains / For decades, four-axle open freight cars have been shaping the rails of Europe. Loading or unloading with cranes
The loading or unloading with cranes, excavators or tipping systems allows a quick handling of the wagons in the respective stations and connecting railways.
In the mid-1980s, the international railway association (Union internationale des chemins de fer, UIC), at the insistence of the French state railways, defined the dimensions for four-axle open freight wagons with a longer loading length. Compared to the predecessor type Eaos, the wagons are 1.70 metres longer and have reinforced doors, end and side walls as well as a steel floor.
These wagons were built in four versions:
Type 1 - Eanos(-x) 052 (with two different bogie designs).
Type 2 - Eanos-x 055 (different construction version of the doors, brake with automatic load braking)
Type 3 - Eanos-x 059 (only one loading door on each long side)
Type 4 - Eas 5948/ Ea(n)s 069 (type Arad for DR, with cambered doors and end wall flaps)
With several thousand units throughout Europe, these open freight wagons are an important part of the fleets of various railway companies. The wagons are used throughout Europe in mixed goods trains as well as in block trains. They transport many goods from scrap metal, wood and coal to car parts and sugar beet."