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The old version of the steel bar reinforced MÁV boxcar. It was built with a wheel base of 4.0m. The drawing shows the old type dual part bearing block. |
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This is the frame of the 4.0m wheelbase boxcar. I did not add the hook-type coupler and its internal parts. |
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The front of the boxcar. Actually this view was the same for both, the old and the new type - except for the bearing blocks. |
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The 5.0m wheelbase boxcar that was built after 1913. The longer wheelbase allowed it to participate in faster trains. The carbody did not change. This drawing shows a car with the newer one-part bearing block. |
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The frame of the 5.0m wheelbase boxcar. It is well visible, this part was totally reconstructed. |
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The 5.0m wheelbase boxcar with handbrake. The box size is the same as for the cars without brakes, but the frame became longer. The wheels are not simmetrically arranged, neither to the box, nor on the frame. |
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The frame of the hand brake version boxcar. The structure is similar to the brakeless versiom, but there is an additional crossing profile that keeps the vertical profiles of the car front. This drawing also shows the brake rigging. |
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A scetch of the brake rods. This typs of the brake rigging was the last version used on railway cars and for the passenger cars it was only extended by the air brake equipment. Later the freight cars were also equipped with air brakes. |
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The long, "hi-cube" boxcar, the type Gh. This car was developed in 1901 to transport large volume freight, that time mainly furniture. |
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The Gh car frame structure. It shows features of the old frames but also new solutions, like the parallel longitudinal profiles around the car centerline. This type of car was only built without brakes. |
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The front of the hi-cube Gh car. The special shape of the roof almost fills in the possible clearences. This was a Hungarian speciality, neither the German nor the Austrian freight cars were built with such shape high roof. |
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