The royal train of the German emperor Wilhelm II.
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Picture authors:

Hans-Martin Hebsaker (BahnLand)
Klaus Schneider (BR74)    

Package 1:  Royal train cars of the 1st generation (1889-1893)
Package 2:  Royal train cars of the 2nd generation (1897-1902)
Package 3:  Royal train cars of the 3rd generation (1904-1911) and
            Royal saloon car of the crown prince from 1905
Package 4:  Royal train cars in the 1st World War era (1914-1918)  

Besides the original delivery state of the vehicles and rebuildings, also variants with window sunblinds attached outside of the wagons and with sun roofs are included. 

Amongst others, realistic locomotives are the pr. S3, pr.S5, pr. S6, pr. S10, but also "foreign" locomotives from the era of royal state railways (e.g. wrtt. AD, wrtt. ADh, wrtt. C, kkStB 60, kkStB 73), when the emperor traveled to foreign countries.

The BahnLand packages (BLxx.zip) contain all single vehicles, where the right part of each picture (except the baggage cars) show the corridor side and the left part of the picture show the compartment side. There is also a list of exemplary train compositions, where wuertembergian locomotives and e.g. the "pr. S10" from Jrgen Hoffmann have been used for pulling the trains. Please download the referred locomotives from the present homepage or e.g. from the homepage "http://bahnschranke.pxtr.de/".

Within the packages for the MM screensaver (MMxx.zip) there are different pictures for both sides and for 2 phases (...L_0.bmp, ...L_1.bmp, ...R_0.bmp, ...R_1.bmp). To complete them to 4 phases for the MM screensaver, please copy the drawings with phases 0 and 1 as drawings for phases 2 and 3. Additionally, there are pictures representing complete trains, which are already available for all 4 phases, in both directions. You can also find the corresponding configuration entries for the file "user_bmp.ini". But you must adjust there the directory paths as valid in your MM screensaver environment. The "wrtt. C" used for one train was drawn by Klaus Schneider.

For Traffic, the vehicle from the BahnLand format can be imported directly.  

The pictures are free for private use. You are allowed to use these pictures for further own train compositions, as long you refer the original picture authors when publishing your trains. It is FORBIDDEN to use these pictures in a commercial manner. 


Informations about the Royal train
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In 1989, the first royal saloon car of the emperor Wilhelm II was built. After the wagon had been completed, the emperor let build further wagons between 1890 and 1891, to compose a complete saloon car train. All these cars had been constructed with uniform dimensions - except the imperial car and the baggage cars, which had been a little longer. Over the years, further waggons with different constructions had been added, which partially displaced older types. Until 1911, there had been put into service all in all 28 royal train cars + 2 further saloon cars, which had not been part of the real royal train. 

Known locomotives in Prussia had been the classes S1, S3, S5, S6 and S10 (also as doubleheading). When the emperor voyaged to other countries, the locomotives of the visited country pulled the train. Therefore, it is really realisitic to use the classes AD, ADh and C in Wrttemberg when - for example - the emperor frequented his castle Hohenzollern near Hechingen or visited his friend "zu Frstenberg" at Donaueschingen.

The cars of the 1st generation got fix numbers, which had been also used (with differentiating suffixes) for the successor vehicles described below:

 1    Royal saloon car for the emperor  (1889, 6-axle, lob 18600mm)
 2    Royal saloon car for the empress  (1890, 4-axle, lob 17800mm)
 3    Entourage car for gentlemen       (1890, 4-axle, lob 17800mm)
 4    Entourage car for ladies          (1890, 4-axle, lob 17800mm)
 5    Escort car for gentlemen          (1891, 4-axle, lob 17800mm)
 6    Escort car for ladies             (1891, 4-axle, lob 17800mm) 
 7    Royal restaurant car              (1890, 4-axle, lob 17800mm)
 8    Royal kitchen car                 (1890, 4-axle, lob 17800mm)    
 9    Royal baggage car                 (1891, 4-axle, lob 18600mm)
10    Royal baggage car                 (1891, 4-axle, lob 18600mm, same as 9)
11    Spare saloon car for the emperor  (1891, 4-axle, lob 17800mm)
12    Royal restaurant and kitchen car  (1891, 4-axle, lob 17800mm)
      --> Rebuilt before 1906           (6-axle, lob estimated 18800mm)

Indeed, the lob (length over buffers) of the baggage cars 9 and 10 is not really declared. But their length should have been the same like that of the emperor saloon car 1. Because of urgent needs there had been purchased 2 further baggage cars already in 1893, whose car body length was identical with that of cars 9 and 10 although their lob was 20cm less than that of the older ones: 

13    Royal baggage car                 (1893, 4-axle, lob 18400mm)
14    Royal baggage car                 (1893, 4-axle, lob 18400mm) 

The baggage cars 9 and 10 had been identical. But the side window arrangements from wagons 9, 13 and 14 differed among each other. The roofs of the cars 1-8,  11 and 12 had been constructed with overhead lights. The roofs of the baggage wagons 9, 10, 13 and 14 didn't have overhead lights, but instead contained a train conductor cabin for looking along the train above the roof. 

All cars except the combined restaurant and kitchen car 12 had entrance areas at both ends with indented roof (the baggage cars had double doors at the end opposite from the train conductor cabin). At car 12, the entrance area existed only at one end. The dining room reached the other end with full broadness. But already before 1906, a 2nd entrance area was attached to this end, and the now elongated wagon got new 3-axle bogies. Unfortunately, there is no information about its new measurements. But assuming, that the attached entrance area was similar to the other entrance areas of the royal train cars, it is in all probability, that the elongated wagon had a length over buffers from about 18800mm (with a possible divergence of about 20cm - shorter or longer).   


Already in 1897, one began to build a new generation of royal train wagons, which got old numbers (2nd use) with the ambition to give always same numbers for cars with same functionality. Then, the old cars got a new higher number or they got removed from the royal train car fleet to be now used by the KPEV as saloon cars for the public transport. Only the new combined restaurant and kitchen wagon 15 got this new number. The following cars may be assigned to the 2nd generation of royal train cars:   

 1A   Royal saloon car for the emperor  (1902, 6-axle, lob 19300mm)
 2"   Royal saloon car for the empress  (1901, 6-axle, lob 19300mm)
 3A   Entourage car for gentlemen       (1901, 4-axle, lob 19300mm)
 3"   Entourage car for gentlemen       (1903, 6-axle, dimensions unknown)
 4A   Entourage car for ladies          (1898, 4-axle, lob 19300mm)
 4"   Entourage car for ladies          (1903, 6-axle, dimensions unknown) 
15    Royal restaurant and kitchen car  (1897, 6-axle, lob 19300mm)

Unfortunately, there are not known any dimensions and pictures from the wagons 3" and 4". So, there is no chance to draw authentic vehicles from them. 


The construction of the 3rd genaration of royal train cars began at 1904, when the 3rd royal saloon car for the emperor was delivered. The last wagon of this generation was the 3rd royal saloon car for the empress, which was built in 1911. The following cars had been purchased within this era:

 1"   Royal saloon car for the emperor  (1904, 6-axle, lob 19300mm)
 2a   Royal saloon car for the empress  (1911, 6-axle, lob 20160mm)
 3A"  Entourage car for gentlemen       (1907, 6-axle, lob 20160mm (assumed))
 4A"  Entourage car for ladies          (1906, 6-axle, lob 20160mm (assumed))
 5A"  Entourage car for gentlemen       (1907, 6-axle, lob 20160mm (assumed))
 6A"  Entourage car for ladies          (1907, 6-axle, lob 20160mm (assumed))
16    Royal baggage car                 (1910, 4-axle, lob 18400mm (estimated))

The lob of the entourage cars above is not really known. But their car body lengths are identical to that of the royal saloon car 2a for the empress, so that the assumption of 
the lengths above is really plausible. This assumption is confirmed by measuring the lengths from existing scale drawings, where the car body lengths are explicitly displayed.
  
From the baggage car 16, there are no measuremts passed down. But interpreting existing photographs with idendical windows arrangement, the car 16 seems to have the same dimensions like the baggage cars 13 and 14. Along the cabin side half of the wagon, there was a roof with overhead lights. And the train conductor cabin was halved alongside. 

In contrast to the older cars, the 3rd generation has beveled boards when passing to the entrance areas reduced in broadness, and continuous rolling roof edges along the entrance areas. But the overhead lights are similar to the previous car generations.

The royal saloon car of the crown prince, built in 1905, was never part of the royal train. And therefore its livery was dark green instead of the blue-white livery of the royal train cars:

20    Royal saloon car for the crown prince (1905, 6-axle, lob 20405mm)

It was the longest of all royal vehicles, and its overhead lights had been dragged down to the ends of the car body ("torpedo roof").     


In the course of time, several changes had been made for some vehicles. Within all saloon cars of the emperor, the royal apartments including the sanitary area got enlarged. Therefore, the frosted glass windows had been changed. Within some saloon cars of the empress, one window got closed because this location was the place of the big vanity mirror, so that this window was unnecessary.      

Further optical variations are the window sunblinds, which had been mounted outside at the saloon windows from the saloon cars of the emperor and the empress as well as from the restaurant cars. These sunblinds could be demounted if the railway loadng gauge of the route to be passed was too close. Against the heat at hot summer days, the overhead lights of the saloon cars of the emperor and the empress could be strung by sunblind canvas covers. This covering could be retained even when the train was running.   


For the train composition, the following rules had to be considered:

The standard order of the train, consisting of 9 wagons, was: 1st baggage car + kitchen car + restaurant car + 2 entourage cars for gentlemen + saloon car of the emperor + saloon car of the empress + 1 entourage car for ladies + 2nd baggage car.  

The wagons had to be ordered in that sense, that all corridors lied on the same side. The saloon cars of the emperor and of the empress had to be coupled together with the saloon sides. The train conductor cabins of the baggage cars always had to be located at the ends of the train.

The reason to queue always 2 baggage cars, at both ends of the train, was always to hold a baggage car between the train and the locomotive for security, without the necessity of shunting the baggage car when the train had to change the direction.  

The number of cars within the royal train could vary. Especially, the use of 11 wagons within the royal train is known. If the emperor was on the way without his wife, the saloon car of the empress and the entourage cars for ladies got sorted out. Then, the saloon car of the emperor could be directly coupled with one of the baggage cars.

 
The royal spare saloon car 11 and the royal combined restaurant and kitchen car 12 have been mostly used on the short line between Berlin and Potsdam. But if needed (especially when cars of the royal train got unavailable because of an inspection), both wagons could also be included to the "big" royal train.


Reference: 
Alfred Gottwald - Der Hofzug Sr. Majestt des Deutschen Kaisers, Knigs von Preussen