Four-axle baggage car originally built for the German Reichsbahn Company as a so-called “standard luggage car”, which was taken over by the German Reichsbahn (DR) of the GDR after the Second World War and was initially used in its original form. It was given the generic name “KD 4” by the DR.

In the GDR, all narrow-gauge railways belonged to the DR, including the Weißeritztalbahn. The wagon master responsible for this railway was of the opinion that the storage space available in these luggage wagons would not be sufficient for the load to be transported. He therefore sought to modernize some of the baggage carts at the Perleberg repair shop. As part of this, in which only the chassis and the roof were continued to be used, the cars were given new car bodies with only one end platform. The new, internal generic name was now: KD 4 mod.

When the cars were put back into service, the train crews were very unhappy because they – provided that the car was placed in the middle of the train between passenger cars – could no longer go from the baggage car to the next passenger car. This meant that these “single platform” baggage cars had to be placed at the end or the beginning of the train, which repeatedly caused problems in train operations.

After the reunification of Germany and the privatization of many narrow gauge railways it turned out that several updated baggage cars of the Döllnitz Railroad, the Saxon Steam Railroad Company, Inc. (SDG), as well as the Saxon Oberlausitz Railroad Company (SOEG) were updated further or operationally improved in that they were re-equipped with their second platform, naturally now on the new car bodies.

36380 Saxon Oberlausitz Railroad Company (SOEG) Baggage Car

Gauge / Design Type: G /
Era: VI
Type: Freight Cars

This is new tooling for a baggage car on the Zittau Narrow Gauge Railroad.
The car has a prototypical paint scheme and lettering.
It also has metal solid wheelsets. 

• Length over the buffers 57.5 cm / 22-5/8"
  
• Finely detailed modelling of the prototype
  
• Goes with the existing SOEG passenger cars