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A plasticard OHRID EXPRESS

For quite some time, I had been looking for a type of passneger carriage that would blend in with the theme of my Quittancourt «Liberated Regions» layout in 00-9. Naturally, makeshift carriages were built in France in the 1920s. But photographs of such stock are rare and none of those that existed caught my fancy. So, when I discovered the Macedonian railway and its cohorts of small carriges built on German

Brigade chassis, I figured they would fit in perfectly. It is not unreasonable to think that similar carriages could have been built in France.

As plenty of photographs were available, it was easy to draw up an accurate diagram. What is more,

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