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Limited edition of

423b

1938/39 Vienna Type Z 4201-4242 series Car (ex-Third Avenue Transit System, acq. in 1949).

The Vienna tram system was badly damaged at end of World War 2, and in Summer 1948 the American administration in Austria offered cars of just abandoned Third Avenue Transit System trolley lines in New York for sold to Vienna. The Vienna's experts studied the cars, which were only 9 years old at this time and in December 1948 fourty-two lightweight cars of 626-685 series were sold to Vienna under Marshall plan. In 1949 the cars were sent by ship to Rotterdam and then by railway to Austria. In Austria they were rebuilt by Waggonfabrik Graf & Stift and equipped with pantographs instead of trolley poles. Because the ex-New York cars were wider than standard Vienna cars (2.494 m instead of regular Vienna's 2.2 m), they could operated only on tracks of former steam tram routes and after the test rides in September 1949 the cars were assigned to the Floridsdorf depot, serving routes 331, 132 and 17/217 until 1964, when the Floridsdorf depot was equipped by modern cars. After that they were used on route 11 until September 1969. Eight cars were preserved, include three returned to United States.

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Scale: 1:48
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