Under the reference VB374 from the manufacturer REE Modeles, here is a boxed set of BACALAN passenger cars.
Three beautiful HO scale reproductions:
- 1 2nd class passenger carriage type B11 registered 51 87 21-47 517-7
- 1 2nd class passenger carriage type B11 registered 51 87 21-47 562-3
- 1 restaurant carriage Buffet B3r registered 51 87 85-47 115-3.
- Railway stock with NEM 362 coupler box.
- Very detailed bodywork, interior and printing to get as close as possible to the original model.
- Operate under current continu 2 rails and is fitted with a green livery.
- Cars running for the railway company SNCF during the era IV, in the 80s.
- Cars BACALAN possessing a length of 263mm each.
- These scale models perfectly replicate the line of these rail vehicles that served many regional lines during this period.
A little history:
The Bacalan carriages were manufactured in the inter-war period in Bordeaux, in the workshops of the manufacturer Dyle et Bacalan. That's where they got their name from. This series of rail vehicles was designed by OCEM to remedy the corrosion problems affecting vehicles of the time. The first prototypes showed significant progress, and the PLM company ordered 185 examples of this passenger car, recognisable by its visible rivets. In service from 1929 to 1931, they were called C11yfi, because they had 11 third-class compartments. In the 1950s, the SNCF renamed these compartments B11, as third class had just been abolished.12 examples were converted into restaurant cars called C4syfi. In the 1980s, 89 Bacalan coaches were still in circulation. The last models were retired in 1986.
