A7253 Oyu10-2029 Grape color
Lightweight mail car! When Oyu type 10 appeared
[Actual vehicle]
-Since the Meiji era, railways have long been used to transport mail.
●Most mail cars are equipped with a work room and sorting shelves for sorting mail while in transit, in addition to transporting mail, and there are few side windows, so small windows for daylighting are lined up at the top of the sides so that they do not interfere with the shelves. In addition to its distinctive appearance, it also had a large red postal symbol posted on some side windows.
-Japan National Railways, which was working on reducing the weight of passenger cars, introduced 10 series passenger cars in 1955, and the Oyu 10 type mail car appeared in 1957.
-It is characterized by the above-mentioned lightweight structure with functions similar to the Suyu 42 type of the Suha 43 series family.
-The Oyu 10 type, of which a total of 72 cars were manufactured by 1971, was used in a wide range of trains from local trains to express trains throughout the country, and from 1969 onwards, the body color was sequentially repainted to Blue No. 15, and from 1972 onwards. Air conditioning was promoted along with lower roofs.
【Product Summary】
●Further enhancement of the Micro Ace passenger car series
-Commercialization of the standard 10 series mail car in a nostalgic grape color No. 2, non-air conditioned
●Tail light lighting (with ON-OFF switch)
- Postal car in grape color. Oyu type 10
●Variation products based on A1574 (shipped in February 2008)
-Non-cooled, grape-colored appearance when first introduced
- Suitable for passenger trains up to the early 1960s (sequentially blue painted from 1969)
-Tail lights on both ends (with switch)
-You can enjoy connecting it to your own luggage train or passenger train.
*A separate locomotive is required for running.