Minitrix - 18489 - Passenger Cars, Coach, Type Bnrz 450.3, Epoch VI - Train Rental Inc. - 50 80 22-35 956-8

Specific Item Information: Train Rental, Inc. (TRI) commuter car, 2nd class, (car number 50 80 22-35 956-8) with steeply pitched roof. The car looks as it did around 2021.

Road Name History: Starting in 2013, we initially dedicated ourselves to preserving historic, high-quality rail vehicles. From this we developed the idea of ​​refurbishing older vehicles and keeping them available for scheduled use in passenger transport. This is how we developed into a service provider for replacement and emergency transport – between “pure vehicle rental” and operational “full service”. We can now name almost all major transport companies in Germany on our reference list and operate our trains between the Alps and the North Sea. In order to be able to operate flexibly, we rely on the classic, proven locomotive-carriage principle, if possible with our own locomotives from the 110 (E10), 111 and 113 (E10.12) series, but alternatively also with modern three-phase locomotives.

Since December 2018, we have been running additional trains in North Rhine-Westphalia as part of the “Special Trains NRW” transport contract, e.g. to major and sporting events on behalf of the regional rail transport authorities VRR, NWL and GoRheinland.

Our range of services extends from S-Bahn traffic at short intervals to RB amplifier services and RE connections on medium-haul routes as well as point-to-point traffic in Bundesliga traffic.

For this purpose, we permanently have at least two train sets with high seating capacity ready for use.

In June 2022, we started scheduled replacement services with our own trains on the Stuttgart - Tübingen and Bretten - Bruchsal routes in Baden-Württemberg on behalf of the Ministry of Transport and the transport authority NVBW. The reason for this is the conversion of the multiple units that normally run there to the new ETCS signaling technology as part of the Stuttgart 21 project.

From December 2022, we were able to significantly expand our offering and now also serve the connections Stuttgart - Würzburg, Stuttgart - Nuremberg and Stuttgart - Aalen. The contracts have a term of several years.For this purpose, we are constantly expanding our vehicle fleet:

We currently own 15 mainline locomotives and over 100 passenger cars. These now also include sleeping cars, couchette cars and dining cars, some of which can travel at 200 km/h. This is now followed by air-conditioned double-decker cars for modern local transport.

But we have not forgotten our basic idea of ​​preserving historic vehicles: we are currently preparing to refurbish our own E 103 express locomotive.

All business areas are looked after around the clock by a highly motivated and competent, friendly team. Our control center, which is equipped with the latest technology and is always present, has all TRI trains nationwide under control. On site, our employees impress our customers with their competence and good humor. Our passengers have already written compliments, brought little things on board as thanks and nominated them for “Railroadman with a Heart”.

Brand/Importer Information: Trix is a German company that originally made Trix metal construction sets. one of its co-founders was Stephan Bing, the son of the pioneer toy-maker industrialist Ignaz Bing. In 1935 the company began producing the electrically powered model trains that it became famous for, under the Trix Express label. Prior to the outbreak of World War II the Trix company produced a small range of fairly unrealistic AC powered three rail models running at 14 volts.

N gauge models under the Minitrix brand were made from the late 1960s mostly of European prototypes (German and British primarily). North American prototypes were also manufactured and marketed under the Aurora "Postage Stamp" brand; later these items were sold under the American Tortoise, Model Power and Con-Cor brands. Trix sometimes utilized North American consultants to aid in the design of this portion of the product line. The "Hornby Minitrix' brand was used in the 1980s for a short lived range of British outline models using the earlier product tooling.

Trix's owner in the 1980s and 1990s was Mangold, which went bankrupt in the late 1990s and Märklin purchased the assets in January 1997. In part, this purchase was a reflection of Märklin's need for added production capacity; Trix had been manufacturing certain items for Märklin in previous years. The purchase was also in response to the earlier purchase of the Karl Arnold company by the Italian company Rivarossi; Märklin were very keen to take over Trix market share in 2-rail H0 and especially Minitrix, until then Märklin had not marketed N gauge models. In 2003, Märklin introduced its first N gauge models under the well established Minitrix brand. A number Märklin H0 scale three-rail AC locomotives have also been introduced in two-rail DC versions under the Trix logo and many models are shared between the two brands.

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