Original page created on 30/05/2009.
Brand - Reference
Roco 66689
Type
Ks 5.02 UIC unified flat wagon
| UIC number | Revision date |
| 22 87 331 2 100-5 | 20.09.71 |
Weight
68 g empty (NEM: 64 to 83 g)
98 g the load of three caravans.
Comments
According to Ferrovissime Special Issue No. 5, issued in 2016, the wagon No. 01 (not 22) 87 331 2 100 is in the sub-series 01 87 331 2 000 to 3 999, built between 1963 and 1964. Attention: in the Ferrovissime in question, the second half of the table page 149 duplicates the first half, and is therefore useless!
See Loco-Revue forum.
Modifications
- Piko ⌀ 11.4 wheels on Roco axles
- Brake wheels replaced with LS Models’
- Weathered floor; Eriba caravans installed (removable).
- Buffers and steps painted. Stakes glued with Kristal Klear.
- Chassis struts rectified.
History
Wagons put into service from 1954 to 1968. UIC registration 01 (Europ) or 21 (RIV) 87 330 0 000 to 332 4 999. Some are equipped with a screw brake on gangway, others with a brake wheel accessible from the ground.
Main characteristics (with / without gangway): tare 12.8 t / 11.9 t; load C: 21 t / 28 t; usable length 12.5 m; usable width 2.77 m. Folding sides and ends. Manufacturers: Coder, Frangeco, Decauville.
Flat wagons of the UIC type are subdivided into two sub-series of which I don’t know the precise differences of construction:
- the UIC/ORE standard (code Ks 5.01), built from 1954 to 1963, in about 10,000 units. The wagons with brake bridge are in this series;
- the UIC unified (code Ks 5.02), built from 1963 to 1968, in about 12,000 units.
These many wagons will become surplus in the 1970s, which will lead to many transformations: container transport, various service wagons.
Besides, there is a rather surprising coincidence: the perfect adaptation of the usable dimensions of this wagon to those of 40-foot ISO containers (12.2 × 2.4 m compared to 12.5 × 2.77 m), which will only appear 10 years later!
Documents
- Loco-Revue sheet
No. 60 / 3 1967 - 65 d 5 (former series). Sheet preview.
- SNCF 1972 booklet p. 27, (photo above).
- SNCF 1973 booklet Wagons à marchandises, p. 36. Characteristics and photo.
- File Plat standard UIC from Pierre Barbe’s website now closed.
- Photos in tosh-railways.com.
- Ferrovissime Special Issue No. 5 Wagons plats, 1st half-year 2016.
| Dimension | Actual | 1:87 | Model |
|---|---|---|---|
| Overall length | 13 860 | 159.3 | 160.5 |
| Chassis length | 12 620 | 145.1 | 145.0 |
| Width | 2 866 | 33.0 | 32.9 |
| Side height | 1 688 | 19.4 | 19.3 1 |
| End stake height | 3 245 | 37.3 | 37.7 |
| Wheelbase | 8 000 | 92.0 | 92.2 |
| Wheel diameter | 1 000 | 11.5 | 11.0 2 |
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Document available as a PDF.
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specifying the title of the document-s.
For conditions, see page
Loco-Revue documentary sheets. .
Lateral stakes can be put into horizontal position. Wheels ⌀ 11, insufficient.
The regime 22 would mean “interchangeable axle wagon”; we think of Spain, but then it would be 24. I wonder… (the normal regime would be 21: wagon RIV non EUROP.)