Original page created on 05/02/2014; updated on 13/02/2023.
Brand - Reference
LS Models 40413-2
Type
OCEM type PEz mail transport van
| UIC number | Revision date |
| 50 87 00-87 579-4 1 | 15.10.74 |
Weight
113 g (NEM: 99 to 129 g)
Comments
Delivered with a small trolley with mailbags, which could be rather yellow than burgundy (the PTT having adopted the yellow for their road vehicles far before doing it for the wagons).
Still the same problem of NEM box too narrow. In fact, the thickness of the tail of provided standard couplings is 1.4 mm, while the Fleischmann Profi are 1.65, and the NEM 362 imposes 1.75−0.05 for the inside height of the box!
See:
- Loco-Revue Forum
- forum-train.fr
- gamos81.altervista.org for the reference list of issued OCEM post office van models.
Modifications
- Drawbar boxes mangled to accept a coupling.
- Steps, buffers, infrastructure, brake blocks painted.
History
The 157 PEz mail transport vans result from the transformation of OCEM 26/29 travelling post office in the 1970s by the Cannes La Bocca workshops. They were equipped with Y24Jz bogies.
UIC numbers (for the 35 first units):
50 87 00-47 501-7 to 508-2
50 87 00-87 509-1 to 512-5
50 87 00-47 513-2 to 535-5
Management: Sud-Est
Unlike the travelling post office vans (PA, poste ambulant), the mail transport vans (PE, poste entrepôt) are not equipped for sorting mail, but only for transporting postal bags.
Documents
- Loco-Revue sheet
No. 477/21974-73 d 40 (former series). Sheet preview.
- Diagram in Loco-Revue No. 350.
- Wikipedia article.
- Wikipedia article on mail trains.
- Le Train, Archives de l’OCEM, p. 80-81.
- LS Models instruction leaflet.
Photo eurocity64 on Forum e-train.
| Dimension | Actual | 1:87 | Model |
|---|---|---|---|
| Overall length | 21 570 | 247.9 | 248.0 |
| Chassis length | 20 280 | 233.1 | |
| Width | 2 912 | 33.5 | 33.8 |
| Height | 4 068 | 46.8 | 47.0 |
| Pivot distance | 14 680 | 168.7 | 168.4 |
| Bogie wheelbase | 2 300 | 26.4 | 26.2 |
| Wheel diameter | 920 | 10.6 | 10.6 |
Document available as a PDF.
If you are interested, please let me know by e-mail,
specifying the title of the document-s.
For conditions, see page
Loco-Revue documentary sheets. .
Very fine (roof handrails, buffers, etc.). Brass bearings, and even if the bogie inner side beams “rebel” a little, the wheels turn without rubbing. No difficulty to replace deployed bellows with folded ones, the first being not glued.