Rivarossi 4 wheel coach?

Sounds like an Italian car to me, probably of the pre-war era (era II???). Modern Italian cars are marked "FS", so possibly "FSC" is the older version of the mark. 4-wheel coaches were very common in Europe from the early days of the railroads. Many were rebuilt and lasted well into the 1950s and 60s.

HTH

I think I remember seeing 4-wheelers still in service in Austria in

Andy Kirkham

thanks folks ..... am looking further into these and will be looking to pick up a few more for a project

Steve

Era II Italian coaches were green.

Pacers are in use in Britain (and Iran) today.

From memory of the old catalogues I have stashed somewhere, there were two series of these 'models'. The originals, from around 1960, were 1:80 scale and fairly basic by today's standards. (I have a brown luggage van somewhere) In the 1970s the models looked much better in the catalogues than previously, so one could guess that the models were upgraded.

As you originally stated, the coaches have corridor connections, so I would assume that they ran on semi-fast trains over reasonable distances rather than being branch line stock.

Regards Greg.P.

m> thanks folks ..... am looking further into these and will be looking to pick

Looking in a 1988 Rivarossi catalogue I find cat.No.2505, '3rd. class 4 wheel passenger coach of Ciy type', in brown livery. Number hard to read but could be 35 006 Marked FS Ciy. C probably indicates third class. But the illustration has 2 on the doors, one would expect 3. Perhaps third class had been abolished and the classification unchanged. Regards, Bill.

hi again folks

many thanks for the info -I will post a pic on my website in a moment and repost the address

Cheers

Steve