Modelismo Ferroviario - N33311 - Autotrack, Open, Bi-Level, DDM 916 - SNCB/NMBS (Belgian National Railway)

Model Information: New shape. In 1971/1972, the Deutsche Reichsbahn put 37 car transport wagons for DDm passenger trains from the French company ANF into operation. After reunification, the cars were transferred to the Deutsche Bahn AG fleet, where they were listed as DDm 916. They were used in the motorail trains together with the DDm 915. Many cars were later sold abroad or to private companies. In addition to the German vehicles, there are also French, Spanish, Dutch and Czech variants.

Road Name History: SNCB/NMBS (French: Société nationale des chemins de fer belges, Dutch: Nationale Maatschappij der Belgische Spoorwegen, German: Nationale Gesellschaft der Belgischen Eisenbahnen) is the national railway company of Belgium. The company formally styles itself using the Dutch and French abbreviations NMBS/SNCB, however it is commonly referred to in English and internationally using just the French abbreviation SNCB.
NMBS/SNCB is an autonomous government company, formed in 1926 as successor to the Belgian State Railways. In 2005, the company was split up into three parts: Infrabel, which manages the railway infrastructure, network operations and network access, the public railway operator NMBS/SNCB itself to manage the freight (B-Cargo) and passenger services, and NMBS/SNCB-Holding, which owns both public companies and supervises the collaboration between them. NMBS/SNCB-Holding was merged into SNCB in 2014 in order to simplify the structure of the Belgian railways.