Ich starte jetzt mal einen Versuch, wie wir vom Fasten zurück zu den Leckereien eines Kolonialwarengeschäfts kommen könnten.
Bin beim Stöbern auf diese interessante Diskussion im "Railways of Germany" Forum gestoßen:
Colonialwarenwagen
Ich zitiere mal die wichtigsten Beiträge:
"According to Johannes Wittmann there was one original: a private wagon owned by "Franz Kathreiners" Nachfolger Company. However the Bavarian numbering system sets aside 5 numbers for such wagons.
Johannes reports that the models generally look like the prototype, but many details are apparently wrong. The original Kolonialwarenwagen was based on the underframe of the long Bavarian Gp (later Gl) goods van with a 5.5m wheelbase, whereas the model is based on the underframe of the normal goods wagon Glm (later Gm) with a 4.5m wheelbase. Unsurprisingly the length over buffers is therefore wrong as are the axleguards which were of an older pattern than on the model.
He says that from the sketch in the 1897 Bavarian wagon book it looks like the open sections were used for storing tanks (palm oil or coconut fat etc), and the covered section used for non-water resistant products like cocoa, coffee, tea, etc (The term Kolonialwaren (the K spelling is more common it seems) meant overseas produce and raw materials, especially sugar, coffee, tobacco, rice, cocoa, spices and tea i.e. produce from the overseas colonies). The wagon had no ice bunkers.
On the model front there is also a metal kit produced in cooperation with the Länderbahn forum. The website here shows their idea of how such a wagon, if it existed, might have been used.
Any further information would be gratefully received!"
"Okay here's the translated response from Wolfgang Uhl:
The Kolonialwaren wagon was a one-off belonging to the K. Bay. Sts. B. In the (March) 1897 K. Bay. Sts. B. Fleet Register it may be found under diagram number 269. There is also a diagram with the main dimensions. The running number of the unbraked wagon was 86561. It was the property of the state railway and was developed for tariff reasons (?). However there was no real use for such a wagon, so that it remained the sole example. The wagon appears to have been taken out of service by 1917 (but this information is not 100% certain). It was used on branch lines with light goods traffic.
Wolfgang doesn't have a photo, but offered to scan the diagram and the excerpt from the Register.
The Trix/Märklin wagons with advertising are not prototypical as the state-owned wagons were plain. However at least the green 86561 version is an attempt to model the original albeit apparently on the wrong chassis! The fact that the Franz Kathreiner model has the same running number and that Johannes believed it was owned by that firm suggests the K.Bay.Sts.B. may have sold it to Franz Kathreiner by 1917. I have asked Wolfgang whether that might be the case."
"I'm sorry, but I have to contradict Wolfgang Uhl. The Kolonialwarenwagen (or Colonialwaarenwagen in old German orthography before the reform of 1901) was never property of the Bavarian State Railways. It was a private owned vehicle, which can easily be seen from the wagon number. Wagons with numbers between 85001 and 90000 were private goods wagons for special purposes in the middle Bavarian numbering scheme (there are also an older and a newer scheme). The private ownership can also be verified from a roster dating back to 1894. As far as I remember at the moment, the wagon disappeared somewhen around 1910, but I have to look for this at home this evening.
As already pointed out several times before, the MäTrix attitude in releasing this item again and again in various liveries is a good example for their lax approach to prototypical models. I suppose they released this model once due to its quite unusual old-fashioned appearance - in fact it is the only wagon of such style I know, and the only evidence for it are the table and the sketch in the Bavarian wagon roster books. In order to save costs, they used the underframe of the normal 15-ton Bavarian G-wagon, which is too short. In order to sell it several times, they changed the livery from time to time, and sold it in limited editions.
By the way, the 15-ton G-wagon on the other hand was a very good chosen prototype, cause it was the Bavarian goods wagon second in number. MäTrix would have done a better job, if they would have added more of the other standard Bavarian goods wagons to this model."
Gruß René