Peter from South Africa writes:

“Attached is a copy of the dining car D2419  which  I wrote about in my recent blog article which I thought the readers would love to see. According to the info it was made by a firm Poco maybe Poland.

This wagon Dining Car started its life as the original dining car for the first  Orient  Express going back to the early 1900s and when the WW 1 finished the Armistice was signed in her between  France, England, and Germany and was mounted at Versailles France. Along came the WW 2 when Hitler signed the WW2 into operation and stolen the dining wagon 2419 D and used it as his command center on his special war command train until the end of the of WW2. Then according to the records this coach was pushed into a tunnel and burnt. The remains were only found later on but the French had an ace up their sleeve and had a similar coach and brought it out and renamed it 2419D and it is in Versailles today as far as I know. This information was obtained from a Video hunting Hitler shown here in South Africa.

Trust  this gives you  some info  on the coach  I use her on my 1930’s SAR trains as it color is what  they called Imperial  brown  which  blends in  with  the 1930’s passenger  rolling  stock of SAR trains

Cheers Peter Field RSA.”