CSD Vtr

This wagon is a Vtr are 2-axle, high-sided open freight cars, often compared to the German Omm 39 types, that were widely utilized across Europe and became a staple for the ČSD. Very good scale models of these cars produced by Vacek (now out of production) are popular among Eastern European rail modeling collectors. 

 

Vacek Vtr

 

 

Piko Vtr

 

Due to an acute shortage of wagons, around 1000 wagons of this type were purchased in Czechoslovakia in 1948, I believe even with Marshall Plan funds. At the same time, the covered wagons of type Gm 39 (Ztr at the CSD) were procured in the same way. Vtr and Ztr were widespread standard wagons at the CSD and could also be seen in cross-border traffic in Germany until around 1990.

German shippers didn't like the side wall construction with the flaps, which is why the DB wagons were given a UIC-like body in 1959. At first glance, they now looked like other open (or electric) wagons, but were still recognizable by their distinctive truss frame. Already no longer RIV-compliant by 1970, they can be seen in some depot photos from the 1970s as slag wagons or similar.

A recent purchase of a Vacek Vtr