transsibFAN:Вот если бы нашлось фото саратовских вагонов из середины 90-х - тогда эту гипотезу можно было бы смело отбросить.
RZD wide profile sleeping-car Saratov - Berlin-Lichtenberg. As the area of Saratov has some population with German roots, this relation generates several carloads each week. Berlin-Lichtenberg, 5 August 2000.
RZD wide profile sleeping-car Saratov - Berlin-Lichtenberg. It's not black, it's just a very dark green. Berlin-Lichtenberg, 5 August 2000.
RZD wide profile sleeping-car No. 061 16701 Saratov - Berlin, with yet another RZD logo. Under the destination sign with the Russian and German heraldic eagles, the central European railways where this car can operate are marked. Berlin-Lichtenberg, 5 August 2000.
RZD wide profile sleeping-car Saratov - Berlin with an antenna on the roof - radio? TV? mobile phone? internet? Berlin-Lichtenberg, 5 August 2000.
Sleeping-car train from Berlin to Rostov, Omsk, Novosibirsk, Saratov and Astana. These cars are coupled among each other with Russian SA3 couplers; at both ends, UIC screw link couplers are installed (which are changed for SA3 couplers when the train enters the wide gauge network). Berlin-Lichtenberg, 5 August 2000.
http://www.railfaneurope.net/pix/ru/car/kupe/green/Germany/RZD wide-profile sleeping-cars in train D 1249 to Saratov, Novosibirsk, Omsk, Rostov and Voronesh. Berlin-Lichtenberg, 28th March 1998.
Photo: Tobias B. Köhler
С уважением, Евгений.