Dutch Rail - Freight Wagons

Wilco Vermeer's Dutch Rail / Freight Wagons / Eds-m

Updated:

November 24th, 2016

Freight Wagons /
Eds-m / Fccpps / 000

Eds-m / Fccpps
prototype Fccpps
build from Eds-v
(image: http://forum.beneluxspoor.net)
number:
954 8 000
643 7 000
Length: 9.64 m
Content: 22 m3
Own weight: 10.340 kg
Loading weight: 28.200 / 29.500 kg
Axels: 2
Axel distance 6 m
Max speed:
loaden: 100 km/h
empty: 120 km/h

The EDS-m was designed as a prototype for the later Fccpps hopper wagons. The wagon was build with the chassis of an EDS hopper wagon and specifically designed as a service wagon for the Dutch Railway Company (NV. Nederlandse Spoorwegen, NS) for the depositing of ballast stones in the maintenance and building of railway lines. To design the wagon the Hoofdwerkplaats Amersfoort made a prototype which was built with the base of an Talbot EDS hopper wagon. The experience with this prototype was used to design the Fccpps series which followed.
The prototype EDS-m later was changed to Fccpps and at first was given the number 954 8 000-1. Later the wagon was renumbered to 643 7 000-1. With the private market setting in and NS losing its cargo and maintenance divisions, the wagon changed to the newly formed Railpro company and received the number 643 7 000-2 and is still in service.

	The prototype taken on an unknown date under the NS regime as 643 7 000-1 (image from http://forum.beneluxspoor.net )
The prototype as 643 7 000-2 in the Westhaven, Amsterdam on March 25th, 2012 under the Railpro flag with NL-RP regime (image: Hans Willemse)
	Same as above, just from another angle (image: Hans Willemse)
The 000-2 at the Westhavenweg, Amsterdam on April 1st, 2012 (image: Arnold van Heyst)
	Right: 000-2 in a cargotrain, early 2016 (image: Johan de Bruin)

Model:
Roco produced the 954 8 000-1 in Ho (1:87) as part of the set 44037. The model actually is not of the prototype EDS-m/Fccpps but a version of the production form of the Fccpps with the large NS logo.

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