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SOB Einheitswagen IV

Even today, the Einheitswagen IV form a prominent part of Swiss rail transport. But before we get to the many SBB carriages, the two private railways in eastern Switzerland, SOB and BT, first get their EW IV.

Hintergründe:
The history of the Einheitswagen began at the end of the 1970s. After the recently delivered EW III wagons were not really able to hold their own in everyday operation, SBB and the industry began to work on a new generation.
This time, the idea was to move away from aluminium construction. Inspired by the Eurofima coaches built at the time, the EW IVs were created, which SBB ordered in large quantities. BLS soon followed suit. But that's a story for another mod.

Our story begins a good 10 years later. Südostbahn and Bodensee Toggenburg Bahn are looking for new air-conditioned rolling stock to replace the equipment from the 1960s on the St. Gallen-Lucerne express train service. However, a disappointing response to an enquiry from the industry was that they were working to capacity with orders from SBB and BLS and could only offer EW IVs from the current delivery series rather than new developments.

The Südostbahn then ordered four carriages of this type, one first class carriage and three second class carriages. The new carriages were immediately put into service on the Voralpen-Express, where they were mixed with the BT carriages to form five-car trains. The trains were each made up of an EW IV first class, three EW IV second class coaches and an older design bistro coach. Locomotives from all three participating railways were used as locomotives, the BT provided its new Re 4/4 91-96 (Re 456), the SBB the classic Re 4/4 II and the SOB initially provided its Re 4/4 III. In order to get the heavy trains over the steep SOB ramps more easily, the SOB swapped its three Re 4/4 IIIs for the four SBB prototype Re 4/4 IV locomotives and used them as Re 446s in front of the Voralpen Express trains. If more space was required, the train could be reinforced with older standard coaches from the three operators, but this then required a pushing locomotive on the SOB's 50‰ steep ramps.

As the five wagons were increasingly no longer sufficient and the pushing service was uneconomical, the SOB and BT decided to replace the EW IVs, which were too heavy, with modernised unit wagons I after less than 10 years. With the Revvivos, the train could be operated as a six-car shuttle train from 1999, which significantly simplified operations.

The SOB then sold its carriages to the SBB.


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A big thank you to:

• UG, who built the vanilla modell which served as a starting point
  
• Maverick2002, who made the bikes for the cargo
  
• Mark_86 who loaned me his advertisments
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