| FBW livestock van | |
|---|---|
| Price | ƒ34.000 |
| Level | 14 |
| Statistics | |
| Freight | Livestock |
| Weight | 15 tons |
| Capacity | 25 tons |
| Length | 8,4 meters |
The FBW livestock van is another modification of the 20 ton CHD, this time for livestock. The name means it is a livestock wagon (F), the second standardised design (B), and the wagon has a Westinghouse type brake system (W).
Variants
The FBW livestock van is available in brown and grey.
Historical details
In 1905, the Hollandsche IJzeren Spoorweg Maatschappij (HSM) ordered a series of boxcars with a loading capacity of 12 tons and up from Werkspoor. This type was among the many that HSM ordered, with it's predecessors being the CHA, CHB and CHC. The majority of the 20 ton CHD type had their roofs raised and their wheels moved from 4 to 5 meters apart in the 1930s, which in return gave them a slightly larger cargo capacity and increased top speed, now being suitable to travel at speeds of up to 100 km/h. They started to be phased out in the 1950s, with some of them being used for storage and later scrapped.
About 500 wagons of the FBW and similar wagons were built to transport livestock. A lot of these wagons had brake huts on the roofs, but these were very often removed under Dutch Railways use. None are preserved.
Trivia
- This is another version of the 20 ton CHD.
- The FBW livestock van was added in version 0.4.74.
- Prior to version 0.8.8 this wagon was known as the 25 ton livestock van