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Modellbahn-Union N-G40044 Freight wagon tank wagon Uerdingen EVA Caltex Ep.III

Company number of the series: 540224

The model railway Union Gauge N models of the new Uerdingen tank wagons impress with their detailed design and printing. Country-specific abbreviations and different addresses are also taken into account. The models are characterized by prototypical changes to boiler attachments, lashing hooks and chassis attachments. All models have a short coupling link and NEM coupler pockets. Each company number appears in an edition of 250 copies. The LüP is 5.9 cm per car.

The rapid increase in motorization in the 1950s and 1960s meant that large quantities of fuel had to be transported from the refineries to the tank farms. With a capacity of max. 30 m³, the wagons built during the Second World War were no longer economical, so that rental companies such as VTG and Eva, but also the oil companies themselves, had large quantities of new tank wagons built with 36 and 40 m³ capacities.

The Waggonfabrik Uerdingen alone built over 500 wagons between 1960 and 1963. They were hired by Eva and Kontinentale Öltransport AG, an Eva subsidiary, which they leased to several mineral oil companies on a long-term basis.

The DEA procured 75 cars, which were given many different paint finishes as a result of numerous name changes over the course of their service life: DEA dark green, Texaco blue-green, silver-black with Texaco and DEA symbols and, after the sale in 1995, finally also with the KVG logo. The last car, now owned by GATX, was only eliminated after 2013. In 1985, the Eva sold more than 100 wagons to the 3V-Service / Transportgesellschaft Dollbergen, which used them in a striking blue coat of paint, partly until 2008, to transport waste oil.