26550 -- Switching Train, Tank Cars for Inspection

Prototype: VTG, Inc. (former Vereinigte Tanklager und Transportmittel GmbH / United Tank Farm and Transport Services, Inc.) class 201 small diesel locomotive. Former German Federal Railroad (DB) Köf II / class 323. Version with an enclosed cab. 2 petroleum oil tank cars, used on the German Railroad, Inc. (DB AG).

Model: The locomotive comes with a digital decoder. It has a controlled, miniature motor with a flywheel. 2 axles powered. 2 track adhesion magnets for greater pulling power. The headlights and marker lights will work in conventional operation and can be controlled digitally. The acceleration and braking delay can be controlled with the 6021 Control Unit or Märklin Systems. The locomotive has separately applied grab irons. The tank cars come with detailed trucks and partially open frames. The platforms and ladders are separately applied. The trucks are based on the type Y25. The cars have different car numbers. Total length over the buffers 43.7 cm / 17-3/16".

Highlights:

• Locomotive constructed of metal.

• Special magnets provide more pulling power on Marklin track.

• Maintenance-free LED's for white headlights / red marker lights.

One-time series.

The VTG Köf. In the Nineties, Vereinigte Tanklager und Transportmittel GmbH / United Tank Farm and Transport Services, Inc. acquired three class 323 small locomotives that had been retired from the DB. The successor firm VTG Lehnkering sold two locomotives in 1998 and 2000 and bought a Köf again in 2002 that had already been used by a toy manufacturer in industrial work after its service on the DB. The present VTG, Inc. uses the two remaining locomotives at the Syke-Barrien car plant (near Bremen).

One-time series.

37355 -- DB Class V36 Double Diesel Locomotive set (coupled together) (EX)

Prototype: German Federal Railroad (DB) class V 36. Road numbers 402 and 403 as permanently coupled units in M.U. operation. Used for light freight and passenger trains on branch lines.

Model: One locomotive comes with an mfx digital decoder and controlled high-efficiency propulsion; the other locomotive (dummy unit) comes with a sound effects generator. 3 axles powered. Traction tires. The headlights at the outer ends of the locomotive will work in conventional operation and can be controlled digitally. Diesel locomotive operating sounds and a horn as well as acceleration and braking delay can be controlled with a 6021 Control Unit or with Märklin Systems. The sounds of the oil pump and squealing brakes can be controlled with Märklin Systems. The locomotive has many separately applied details. Total length over the buffers 21.6 cm / 8-7/16".

Highlights:

• M.U. operation with one drive mechanism

• Authentic diesel locomotive sounds: motors, horn, brakes, and an oil pump

37571 -- DB Class 103.1 Express Locomotive (L)

Prototype: German Federal Railroad (DB) class 103.1 express locomotive. Regular production version with double rows of side vents, smooth external walls, end skirting, large windshield wipers, and double-arm pantographs.

Model: The locomotive comes with an mfx digital decoder, controlled high-efficiency propulsion, light and sound functions. 3 axles powered. Traction tires. The headlights and marker lights will work in conventional operation and can be controlled digitally. The engine room lighting, a horn sound, as well as the acceleration and braking delay can be controlled with a 6021 Control Unit or with Märklin Systems. The headlights, marker lights and engine room light are maintenance-free LED's. The engineer's cabs have interior details. The locomotive has 18 individually applied grab irons. The roof has equipment details. The open end skirt and close coupler can be replaced by a closed skirt with plug-in brake hoses and a prototypical coupler. Length over the buffers 21.9 cm / 8-5/8".

Highlights:

• Anniversary model for "50 Years of the Trans Europe Express"

• Detailed metal construction.

• Lighted engine room.

37849 -- DRG Class 50 Steam Locomotive with Tender (L)

Prototype: German State Railroad Company (DRG) class 50. Version with a box-style tender and Wagner smoke deflectors.

Model: The locomotive comes with an mfx digital decoder, controlled high-efficiency propulsion, a Telex coupler on the tender, and a sound effects generator. The motor is in the boiler. 5 axles powered. Traction tires. The locomotive frame is articulated to enable the unit to negotiate sharp curves. The headlights will work in conventional operation and can be controlled digitally. A 7226 generator can be installed in the locomotive. The smoke generator contact, the Telex coupler, steam locomotive operating sounds, as well as the acceleration and braking delay can be controlled with a 6021 Control Unit or with Märklin Systems. Additional operating sounds can be controlled with Märklin Systems. The pilot truck has a close coupler in an NEM coupler pocket. There is an adjustable close coupling between the locomotive and the tender. Length over the buffers 26.3 cm / 26.5 cm / 10-3/8" / 10-7/16".

Highlights:

• Motor and gear drive in the locomotive.

• Decoder in the tender

• Special articulated locomotive frame.

• Telex coupler on the tender for remote controlled uncoupling of cars.

• Realistic steam locomotive sounds.

37903 -- DB Class V90 Heavy Switch Diesel Locomotive (L)

Prototype: German Federal Railroad (DB) class V 90 heavy switch engine. Locomotive as it was first delivered.

Model: The locomotive comes with an mfx digital decoder, Telex couplers, and controlled, high-efficiency Soft-drive Sine propulsion. The locomotive has a compact-design, maintenance-free motor with a flywheel, centrally mounted. 4 axles powered through cardan shafts. Traction tires. The headlights / marker lights are maintenance-free LED's. The headlights / marker lights will work in conventional operation and can be controlled digitally. The Telex couplers as well as the acceleration and braking delay can be controlled with a 6021 Control Unit or with Märklin Systems. The engineer's cab has interior details in relief. The locomotive has separately applied metal grab irons and hand rails. The steps to the engineer's cab can be removed for small radius curves. Length over the buffers 16.4 cm / 6-7/16".

Highlights:

• Model constructed mostly of metal.

• Compact-design, high-efficiency Softdrive Sine propulsion.

• All axles powered.

• Telex couplers for remote controlled uncoupling of cars.

One-time series.

39891 -- DB AG Class ES 64 F4 "Dispolok 2" Electric Locomotive (L)

Prototype: Siemens Dispolok, Inc. class ES 64 F4 fast general-purpose locomotive, used on the German Railroad, Inc. (DB AG). Multiple system locomotive with 4 pantographs. Use: Cross border fast freight trains.

Model: The locomotive comes with an mfx digital decoder, controlled, high-efficiency Softdrive Sine propulsion, and a sound effects generator. The locomotive has a compact-design motor. 2 axles powered. Traction tires. The headlights / marker lights are maintenance-free LED's; they will work in conventional operation and can be controlled digitally. The white long distance headlights and a horn sound effect as well as the acceleration and braking delay can be controlled with a 6021 Control Unit or with Märklin Systems. The engineer's cabs have interior details. The locomotive has separately applied metal grab irons. Length over the buffers 22.5 cm / 8-7/8".

Highlights:

• Detailed metal construction

• mfx digital decoder.

• Compact-design, high-efficiency Softdrive Sine propulsion.

• White LED's for regular and long distance headlights.

One-time series.

46045 -- DRG O 11 10-Car Freight car set

46962 -- DB AG type Kbs 443 Stake Car w/pipe load (L)

Prototype: German Railroad, Inc. (DB AG) type Kbs 443. Version without a hand brake. Used to transport large pipe.

Model: The stakes can be mounted on the car. The load of industrial pipe is secured with a special wood frame. Length over the buffers 15.7 cm / 6-3/16".

One-time series.

DC wheel set 2 x 700580.

46963 -- DB AG type Kbs 443 Stake Car w/transformer load (L)

Prototype: German Railroad, Inc. (DB AG) type Kbs 443. Version without a hand brake. Used to transport a transformer.

Model: The stakes can be mounted on the car. The transformer load is secured with a special wood frame. Length over the buffers 15.7 cm / 6-3/16".

One-time series.

DC wheel set 2 x 700580.

47142 -- DB AG type Snps 719 Stake 3-Car Set (EX)

Prototype: German Railroad, Inc. (DB AG) type Snps 719 double stake car. Used to transport pipeline pipe from different manufacturers.

Model: The cars have detailed, permanently mounted stakes. They also have different car numbers. Each car comes loaded with a large, lettered pipe. All of the cars come individually packaged and the packaging is marked. Total length over the buffers 72.0 cm / 28-3/8".

Highlights:

• Pipe lettered for Mannesmann, Thyssenrohr, and Hoesch

• Each car individually packaged

One-time series.
 

48534 -- DB AG type Lbgjs 598 Flat Car w/Container & Truck Model (EX)

Prototype: German Federal Railroad (DB) type Lbgjs 598 universal flat car for medium and large containers. Type Efkr "pa" containers for fine bulk freight and foodstuffs. Magirus truck with a special trailer.

Model: The car comes with high-impact buffer beams and separately applied grab irons. The car is loaded with 5 removable containers painted and lettered for "Südzucker". The containers have separately applied details and different registration numbers. Length over the buffers 17.0 cm / 6-11/16". The truck model has a metal superstructure and trailer.

Highlights:

• Containers with standard mount, interchangeable with other types of containers

• LKW Magirus curved hood truck as a metal model

• Special trailer with appropriate mounts for "pa" containers

One-time series.
 

48684 -- DB Type type Sammp 705 Flat Car w/pipe load(L)

Prototype: German Federal Railroad (DB) type Sammp 705 flat car. Used to transport machinery and large subassemblies.

Model: This car comes loaded with a corner flange pipe in a suitable load frame. Stakes and load beams are included. Length over the buffers 15.2 cm / 6".

One-time series.
 

48810 -- Set of 6 Post-War Freight Cars (EX)

07421 -- Controlling Locomotives, Trains, and Accessories – Electrical Manual

60523 -- 30 Track Plans for Märklin H0 on CD ROM

CD ROM with 30 suggestions worked out for Märklin H0 model railroad layouts. Track plans are shown for C Track and for K Track as well as 3-dimensional views of the layouts. A viewer program is included on the CD ROM to show layouts and views directly. The track plans can be edited and stored with the 60521 track planning program. German language version only. System requirements: Windows 98/ME/2000/XP. Pentium processor or a comparable processor, CD ROM drive. Graphics card with 16 Bit color shades. 32 MB main memory (RAM).

Highlights:

• The track plan book in a CD format.

• 30 suggested layouts in 3-D.

• Viewer included for showing the layout plans.

• Can be used with the 60521 track planning program.

These track plans are compatible with the modellplan Wintrack family of track planning software.

72050 -- Ground Springs (5/pack)

These springs are for the 73400 or 73401 lighting kits in conjunction with the 72020 current-conducting couplers. This is a set with 5 ground springs for installation in the car trucks.
 

One time series for 2007

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73401 -- Lighting Kit with White LED's

Universal circuit board with several white LED's to fit in most of the passenger cars in the Märklin H0 program. One 73401 board is required for a short car (example: Langenschwalbach cars); two boards are required for long cars (example: UIC-x cars with a length of 28.2 cm / 11-1/8" length). Several of these circuit boards can be plugged together or a board can be shortened. Mounting hardware is included. Depending on the car type, the separate pickup shoe / ground spring set, item nos. 73404, 73405 or 73406 or the 72020 current conducting couplers with the 72050 ground spring is required for electrical connections.

Highlights:

• A bright light in the cars: white LED's.

74500 -- HO Heating Locomotive Station

Prototype: Stationary heating smokestack with a supporting girder framework and a work platform. For using operational locomotives as heating locomotives and sources of steam.

Model: The station is a lattice bridge structure with all components made of metal. Completely assembled, detailed model ready for installation over the track. Height 140 mm / 5-1/2”. Clearance about 60 mm / 2-3/8”.

74732 -- HO High Tension Mast

78070 -- "Railroad Grade Crossing" Track Extension Set

78102 -- Roller Test Stand for H0 Gauge, with 3 Pairs of Roller Brackets

48407 -- HO Christmas car for 2007

Prototype: German Federal Railroad (DB) type Kklm low side car. Fictitious design for Christmas.

Model: The car has a frame with truss rods. The body is designed as a lantern housing in a festive decoration with colored ornament windows. LED's are used for lighting and a pickup shoe mounted to pick up power. Length over the buffers 11.5 cm / 4-1/2".

Highlights:

• Lantern housing with a real wood surface.

• Window panes decorated wit historic themes.

One-time series.

80617 -- Z Christmas car for 2007

Prototype: Older design refrigerator car with a brakeman's cab.

Model: The car is an old-timer decorated with a Christmas theme. The theme shows a nostalgic winter scene. Length over the buffers 40 mm / 1-9/16".

One-time series.

54441--  DB Class 044 Heavy Steam Freight Locomotive w/Tender (L)

Prototype: German Federal Railroad (DB) class 044 heavy freight locomotive. Version with open front skirting and Witte smoke deflectors.

Model: The frame, locomotive body, and the tender are constructed mostly of metal. The locomotive has an mfx digital decoder, controlled high-efficiency propulsion, and a sound effects generator with several functions. The locomotive can be operated with DC power, AC power, Märklin Delta, Märklin Digital or Märklin Systems. 5 axles powered. The locomotive has a built-in smoke generator. The triple headlights change over with the direction of travel. The running gear lights are maintenance-free LED's. The lights and the smoke generator will work in conventional operation and can be controlled digitally. The steam locomotive operating sounds, the whistle sound, and the Telex couplers can be controlled with a 6021 Control Unit or Märklin Systems. The acceleration and braking delay as well as other operating sounds can be controlled with Märklin Systems. The engineer's cab has interior details. The locomotive has many separately applied details. The minimum radius for operation is 1,020 mm / 40-3/16". Length over the buffers 71.0 cm / 27-15/16".

One-time series.

The class 44 with its five driving axles is one of Europe's most powerful steam locomotives, and is rightly considered to be the symbol of the standard design freight locomotive. The mighty exhaust from the three cylinder running gear fascinated several generations of railroad enthusiasts, who nicknamed the 44 "Jumbo". The class 44 was built over a period of at least 23 years at production facilities in Germany and countries occupied during the war. It started in 1926 with 10 prototypes. Initially, they had to take a backseat to the class 43 two-cylinder 2-10-0 units. The locomotive committee was under the mistaken notion that they didn’t need the somewhat more maintenance-intensive locomotive with the additional cylinder. As train loads and speeds grew, the time had come for the well-designed class 44, which was fast and smooth-running for its time. Scheduled delivery of the class 44 ended in 1944. The plant at Hennigsdorf built ten additional units in 1949 from existing parts. A total of 1,989 locomotives were built and they differ in numerous details, which should not be surprising, given the long production period. After the war both German state railroads modernized a portion of their motive power pool. In the west the class 44 was in service until the end of the steam locomotive era, 1977. In East Germany the end came late in 1981.

58358 -- Set with 5 Hopper Cars for "Lange Heinrich" / "Long Henry"

Prototype: German Federal Railroad (DB) type Fad 168 high-capacity hopper car. Used for unit trains in mass freight service with coal, coke, and ore.

Model: The load hatches can moved sideways to open them. The cars have load inserts with real iron ore. The car bodies are weathered. The minimum radius for operation is 1,020 mm / 40-3/16". Length over the buffers for one car 37.0 cm / 14-9/16", for all of the cars together 190.0 cm / 74-13/16".

One-time series.

"Lange Heinrich" / "Long Henry". Embedded in the Northwest German plains area is the Emsland area, a region rich in bodies of water and moors. At the start of the Seventies until the end of steam locomotive operation on the DB in October of 1977, it became the Mecca for railroad enthusiasts from all over the world. The last steam giants on the German Federal Railroad ran with passenger trains to Norddeich Mole, and heavy freight trains were in operation between Emden and the large industrial centers on the Rhine and Ruhr. The star on the Emsland line was the "Lange Heinrich" / "Long Henry", a 4,000 metric ton ore train between the Emden switch yard and Rheine, always with two of the last great freight locomotives from the classes 042, 043, and 044 as motive power. The high-capacity hopper cars were loaded with imported raw material in Emden's outer harbor and were hauled by steam and diesel locomotives to the switch yard and there were assembled into long unit trains of 2,000 and 4,000 metric tons. The power output of one of the powerful locomotives was just enough to bring the load for the 2,000 metric ton trains over the lightly ascending line onto the mostly flat 140 km / 88 mile route to Rheine. The "Lange Heinrich" trains were twice as heavy and required the use of two locomotives, which got underway after a furious start, often with slipping wheels. The trains usually had oil-fired class 043 locomotives from the Emden and Rheine Districts as motive power. The classes 042 and 043 were often used in combination, occasionally two of the class 042, and quite rarely the last of the coal-fired class 044 helped along with the other two classes. The classes 042 and 043 had been equipped for oil firing during an overhaul and had entered the motive power roster at Rheine in 1967. There were many locations along the route for taking impressive train photographs. A favorite among knowledgeable photographers was a bridge at Aschendorf, south of Papenburg. The trains could be photographed in almost their entire length on a curve leading to the right. Even more ideal and probably the best place in the Ems area was south of Lathen. There, the route ran between two sand dunes in a curve to the left and offered an unobstructed view of a complete 4,000 metric ton train under the best lighting conditions. A requirement was of course good weather, exact knowledge of the schedule for the trains, and being there early in the morning, when the sun was still low on the horizon. Long before the train entered this section of the route, a distant column of smoke and the unmistakable rhythm of the exhaust announced its approach. The waiting was then rewarded with an unforgettable view of the entire consist from the front of the locomotive to the end of the train consisting of fifty cars. (From notes by Horst J. Obermayer).
 

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58359 -- Set with 5 Hopper Cars for "Lange Heinrich" / "Long Henry"

Prototype: German Federal Railroad (DB) type Fad 168 high-capacity hopper car. Used for unit trains in mass freight service with coal, coke, and ore.

Model: The load hatches on the cars can be moved sideways to open them. The cars have load inserts with real iron ore. The car bodies are weathered. The minimum radius for operation is 1,020 mm / 40-3/16". Length over the buffers for one car 37.0 cm / 14-9/16", for all of the cars together 190.0 cm / 74-13/16".

One-time series.

With the 58358 and 58359 car sets, you have available a total of 10 ore cars in authentic paint and lettering with different car numbers. The prototypical motive power for this "Lange Heinrich" / "Long Henry" is the powerful 55441 model of the class 044 from Rheine.

59934 -- 1 Gauge Roller Test Stand with 8 Pairs of Roller Brackets.

This test stand is for presenting and servicing 1 Gauge locomotives with up to 8 powered axles. The stand is constructed of anodized aluminum sections. Pairs of roller brackets with precision ball bearings are included. 1 Gauge track is included. Locomotives can be operated with a conventional train control transformer, Märklin Digital or Märklin Systems. Total length 920 mm / 36-1/4". Usable length approximately 860 mm / 33-7/8". Pairs of roller brackets can be added individually from the 59932 extension set. This is necessary when using locomotives with more than 8 powered axles

Highlights:

• High quality anodized aluminum sections.

• Precision ball bearings.

• 1 Gauge track included.

The large test stand for the large locomotives: class 01, class 44, and class 96.

T21335 -- "alex" Commuter Train

Prototype: Class ER 20 diesel locomotive and 3 updated passenger cars for the "Allgäu Express" as a joint project of the Bavarian Provincial Railroad (Regental Railroad, Inc.) and the Swiss f