Dear all. I was considering to write this for some time and hope that it will delight you as much as does for me. I wanted to firstly suggest a repaint for Neckartalbahn, since these were present in that era and also until the early 1990s. And that are the so called Pop Wagen: this was a livery tried in 1970 in order to introduce a new corporate identity. For this purpose many coaches received a base grey with black Wagenkasten. On top stripes in different colors were applied. About 145 coaches of different types, most of thrm from the UIC-X family received this paint. Unfortunately it was stopped due to easily visible dirt strains and instead the Oceanblue was introduced in 1974. Nevertheless, as mentioned above this paint was carried for nearly 20 years. The inside remained unchanged and the S-Bahn or local trains maintained this paint for up to until the early 2000s, with the best known examples being the DBBR 420 and X-Wagen. I included a listing and the colour codes as images taken from a magazine I recently purchased. Basically it would be Blutorange/blood orange for the Am and ABm and Blue for the Bm coaches. The second suggestion would be to include the pure first class or Am 203 coach to have the family complete. My research revealed that it was basically the same chassis as the ABm using the wider window and window distance for the first class and the standard size for second. In case of the pure Am the first class section of the ABm was used. As someone unfamiliar this would basically mean to take the first class ABm and clone the first classe section for the entire length. Finally the combi BDms is now left. Obviously the BDms 273 would complete the family and it would be great to see the coach used for most train categories in the 1970s to 1990s, for its freight section and when no Steuerwagen or pure freight coach was available. For visualisation purposes I included a link for the BDms and images for the Pop Lackierung. I would really appreciate if this was taken into consideration for Neckartalbahn 1974. Kind regards.
