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DB Standard Measurement Car
Without measurement cars there would be no
progress on the rails. The class 313 standard
design measurement car is among the latest
measurement cars on the DB, Inc.; the former
German Federal Railroad had a total of eight such
cars built for technical testing of equipment while
it was running and for measuring parasitic current.
These cars are air conditioned and correspond in
their dimensions to the UIC type X cars; they mea-
sure 26.40 meters over the buffers (86' 7-3/8").
At 63 metric tons they weigh considerably more
than cars used in normal passenger service.
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The cars are equipped with disc brake Minden
Deutz heavy weight design trucks for tests up
to 300 km/h (188 mph). Auxiliary engineer's cabs
on the car ends and triple headlights enable mea-
surement trains to be pushed on a route. When
doing measurements under catenary, the car can
also power the locomotive coupled to it from the
catenary with the former's pantograph by means
of a roof conductor and a special separation piece.
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