German Federal Railways (DB) prospect series HE 91 "glass train" electric railcar. Purple / beige colour. Mode around 1965. Model: DCC-/Sx-Decoder and sound functions with switchable as standard. Controlled high-efficiency propulsion. 2 driving axles in a bogie. Traction tyres. Factory fitted interior lighting. Change of direction, three headlights and two red rear lights in conventional mode and can be controlled digitally. Maintenance-free, warm white LED lighting. Interior lighting can be subject to other digital functions. Bogies with prototypically different length serifs. Integrated into furnishings. Used panoramic window. On the roof of each a pair of scissors and a pantograph pantographs single arm double sliding piece. Length ht 23.7 cm. Early 1930s felt the German State Railway (DRG) increasing competition from motor vehicles and buses. Dehalb there were several attempts to improve customer service and make travel more attractive. To define the new impetus of excursion traffic, were ordered from the car factory at Fox and AEG (power supply), two electric sight carriages, that the later ? Glass Trains? should be one of the DRG's flagship properties. These vehicles had to satisfy the leisure services in the particularly charming Bavarian and Austrian Alps special requirements: How passengers from their unobstructed view seats in all directions in the landscape. This required windows and roof to use as few non-transparent parts. For economic considerations should also that many parts of the railcars unit HE 25 and 31 are accepted. These conditions were met: The large windows on the front pages and in the roof is sloping allowed good visibility. The fully welded body sections and leaves have a single on each side of the central entrance. To have an unobstructed view, the washroom in the middle of the entrance has been lowered almost to the height of the window sill. The seat backs have been folded down. Two Tatzlagermotoren worked on both axles in the bogie, the second bogie remained apathetic. The rest of the electrical equipment was organized according to the principles of the unit under the floor of the car. On 14 July to 13 October 1935 was in the electrical part not yet quite completed elt 1998 (later 91 01 HE) at the exhibition in Nuremberg ? 100 years of German railways ? presented. The second car elt 1999 (later 91 02 HE) could be removed in September 1935 and took part in the parade of large cars for the 100th anniversary. The two cars then ran from Munich in special services on electrified lines in southern Germany and Austria shortly afterwards. Offers were also very popular then and after the Second World War? Karwendel Tour? or? Grand Tour alpin? A bomb attack in Munich on the night of 9/10 March 1943 ended the short career of the HE 02 91 It burnt down completely. Subcontracted to Bichl and walled in the local engine poured his brother about the war unscathed and was soon back in useful leisure service, and since 1968 it is just as called UIC 491001-4. Its career came to an abrupt end on 12 December 1995 when it collided with a train at Garmisch-Partenkirchen station. Today, the heavily damaged? Glass Train? at Augsburg Railway Park, awaiting better times.
