2006 Marklin New Items

Here are the 2006 New Items from Marklin

Authorized Marklin Digital Dealer .

If you see something you like, email me: RJFtrains@aol.com

If you have an interest in any of the items listed below, let me know ASAP, even if they are scheduled for 3rd or 4th quarter delivery, and especially if the items are MHI, Limited, Export, or even car sets. These almost always sell out in the US and ordering early is your best assurance of getting these items!

Note: Prices indicated as "Pre-order Price" are valid only for orders placed before March 15, 2006. For orders after that date, the higher price (if shown) will prevail.
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Note: items designated by part numbers beginning with the letter 'T'

00754 - "Leonard Weiss" 4-car add-on assortment
Price: $ 257.76
Goes with: 26529

00756 - Era V 4-car add-on assortment
Price: $ 516.62

41980 - Rail Bus Trailer Car

Price: $ 76.66

Prototype: German Federal Railroad (DB) class 998.

Model: This is a trailer car to go with the 39980 and 39985 rail bus set consisting of a powered rail bus car and a cab control car. The car has close coupler pockets at both ends for plug-in current-conducting drawbars. One current-conducting drawbar included. There is a clear view through the car’s interior space. The car has interior details. The car has interior lighting with maintenance-free LED’s. The interior lighting is powered by means of the current-conducting drawbar from the powered rail bus. Length over the buffers 16.0 cm / 6-5/16”.

This rail bus trailer car goes with the 39980 and 39985 rail bus sets.

42080 - Powered Rail Car Train Intermediate Car

Price: $ 119.00

Prototype: German Federal Railroad (DB) type A4ü. Intermediate car for the VT 08.5.

Model: Intermediate car lettered ”FUSSBALL-WELTMEISTER 1954” (”WORLD SOCCER CHAMPIONS 1954”). This car allows you to transform the prototypically neutral 39080 VT 08.5 powered rail car train into the set for the return trip of the German soccer world champion team of 1954. Special close coupling at both ends for integrating this car into the powered rail car train consist. Built-in interior details. Interior lighting with maintenance-free LED’s. The interior lighting is powered by means of the special current-conducting coupling. Length over the buffers 28.8 cm / 11-1/8”.

This car goes with the VT 08.5 powered rail car train – item no. 39080.

42637 - Inter-City Express Train Passenger Car

Price: $ 47.11

Prototype: Dutch State Railways (NS) type ICR-B10 open seating car, 2nd class.

Model: The car comes in the red/yellow BENELUX color scheme. This car can be retrofitted with the 7319 plug-in current-conducting couplers or the 72020 working close couplers that can be uncoupled. Length over the buffers 10-3/8”. DC wheel set 4 x 70 0580.

The 37120 and 37263 locomotives go well with this car.

42647 - Inter-City Express Train Passenger Car

Price: $ 47.11

Prototype: Dutch State Railways (NS) type ICR-A10 open seating car, 1st class.

Model: The car comes in the red/yellow BENELUX color scheme. This car can be retrofitted with the 7319 plug-in current-conducting couplers or the 72020 working close couplers that can be uncoupled. Length over the buffers 10-3/8”. DC wheel set 4 x 70 0580.

The 37120 and 37263 locomotives go well with this car.

42657 - Inter-City Express Train Passenger Car

Price: $ 47.11

Prototype: Dutch State Railways (NS) type ICR-BKD10 combination car, 2nd class, with a dining car area, galley, and baggage area.

Model: The car comes in the red/yellow BENELUX color scheme. This car can be retrofitted with the 7319 plug-in current-conducting couplers or the 72020 working close couplers that can be uncoupled. Length over the buffers 10-3/8”. DC wheel set 4 x 70 0580.

The 37120 and 37263 locomotives go well with this car.

42953 - "Alex" 3-Car Passenger Train Car Set
Price: $ 104.44
Goes with: 36848

Prototype: Allgäu Express as a joint project of the Bavarian Provincial Railroad (Regental Railroad, Inc.) and the Swiss EuroTHURBO, Inc. (SBB). Type Am compartment car, 1st class; type Bm compartment car, 2nd class; and type BRDpm open seating car, 2nd class with a "Bistro" area.

Model: The cars are ready for installation of the 7319 current-conducting coupling. Adjustable buffers. Total length over the buffers 81.2 cm / 31-15/16".

Interior lighting can be installed via Marklin kit #7330.

The locomotive for the Allgäu Express is already available as a Marklin model: Item no. 36848 class ER 20 "alex" diesel locomotive.

43202 - Express Train Passenger Car

Price: $ 43.00

Prototype: German Federal Railroad (DB) ”Schürzenwagen” (”skirted passenger car”) compartment car, 1st class. Later the type Aüe 310..

Model: This car is ready for installation of the 7319 plug-in current-conducting couplers or the 72020 working close couplers that can be uncoupled. The car looks as the prototype did in Era III. Length over the buffers 25.1 cm / 9-7/8”. DC wheel set 4 x 700580.

Highlights:

Finely detailed car frame and trucks.
Ready for installation of current-conducting couplers.
Can be retrofitted with interior lighting.

Comment: Traveling in Comfort in Streamlined Cars – The former German State Railroad demonstrated a high level of comfort and technical progress with the ”Schürzenwagen” (”skirted passenger cars”) purchased starting in 1939. These cars were designed for a speed of 160 km/h / 100 mph and acquired their nickname from the tumble-home part of the car body in the form of a streamlined skirting down by the car frame. The DR wanted to use these completely welded cars to speed up trains pulled by steam locomotives in the 1930s. A large number of ”Schürzenwagen” remained in the western zones of Germany after World War II, and they were gradually modernized by the German Federal Railroad as well as rebuilt from mixed class cars to cars with first class seating only. A number of units were painted in blue starting in 1951 for the revived legendary ”Rheingold”. These cars thus experienced the high point of their service life. The ”Schürzenwagen” were in service on the DB well into the 1980s.

This car can be combined with the 43222 car to form a typical Era III express train ”Schürzenwagen” consist. The German Federal Railroad class V 200.0 diesel-hydraulic locomotive (Marklin-model 39800) goes well with ”Schürzenwagen” passenger cars.

43222 - Express Train Passenger Car

Price: $ 43.00

Prototype: German Federal Railroad (DB) ”Schürzenwagen” (”skirted passenger car”) compartment car, 2nd class. Later the type Büe.

Model: This car is ready for installation of the 7319 plug-in current-conducting couplers or the 72020 working close couplers that can be uncoupled. The car looks as the prototype did in Era III. Length over the buffers 24.4 cm / 9-5/8”. DC wheel set 4 x 700580.

Highlights:

Finely detailed car frame and trucks.
Ready for installation of current-conducting couplers.
Can be retrofitted with interior lighting.

Comment: Traveling in Comfort in Streamlined Cars – The former German State Railroad demonstrated a high level of comfort and technical progress with the ”Schürzenwagen” (”skirted passenger cars”) purchased starting in 1939. These cars were designed for a speed of 160 km/h / 100 mph and acquired their nickname from the tumble-home part of the car body in the form of a streamlined skirting down by the car frame. The DR wanted to use these completely welded cars to speed up trains pulled by steam locomotives in the 1930s. A large number of ”Schürzenwagen” remained in the western zones of Germany after World War II, and they were gradually modernized by the German Federal Railroad as well as rebuilt from mixed class cars to cars with first class seating only. A number of units were painted in blue starting in 1951 for the revived legendary ”Rheingold”. These cars thus experienced the high point of their service life. The ”Schürzenwagen” were in service on the DB well into the 1980s.

This car can be combined with the 43202 car to form a typical Era III express train ”Schürzenwagen” consist. The German Federal Railroad class V 200.0 diesel-hydraulic locomotive (Marklin-model 39800) goes well with ”Schürzenwagen” passenger cars.

43360 - Lightweight Steel Passenger Car

Price: $ 41.44

Prototype: Swiss Federal Railways (SBB) type A. 1st class with 2 entry doors per side.

Model: The car comes in a spruce green color scheme with the diaphragms originally used on the car. The car looks as the prototype did around 1965. This car can be retrofitted with the 7319 plug-in current-conducting couplers or the 72020 working close couplers that can be uncoupled. Length over the buffers 26.0 cm / 10-1/4”. DC wheel set 4 x 70 0580.

Highlights:

Completely new tooling.
Scale dimensions.
Built-in interior details.
Ready for installation of current-conducting couplers.

Comment: SBB Lightweight Steel Passenger Cars – Comfortable and Successful – The use of the first lightweight steel coaches on the route Zürich-Geneva starting in 1937 began the ”New Era” on the SBB in passenger service between cities. Due to the growing competition in the 1930s from automobiles at that time, very modern passenger cars were developed in cooperation between the SBB and SWS (Schlieren). The lightweight concept of these two organizations with a reduction in the weight of the cars unloaded from between 36 and 39 metric tons to between 25 and 27 metric tons enabled faster speeds on curves and a definite increase the train speeds. The doors on the sides of the cars were moved from the ends of the cars to the area between the trucks because of the requirement for easier boarding of the cars and as low a center of gravity for the cars as possible. This innovation as well as the double doors originally designed for regional passenger trains enabled shorter stops in stations. As a result cars with simple entry doors followed later. These cars were built up to the end of the 1960s, and during this time different designs and arrangements of doors as well as different window arrangements and other modifications resulted in a great number of variations in lightweight steel cars, including cars with center entry doors and later even with entry doors on the ends. The initial arrangement of the doors in the direction of the cars’ center had become necessary in order to improve the running characteristics and gain space for the trucks, which were set wide apart from each other. The costs of this design paid off, and the SBB used its comfortable, lightweight cars exclusively in city-to-city long distance service for almost 3 decades for the lightweight express trains created at that time. It was the middle of the 1950s before the SBB’s financial situation allowed it to purchase lightweight steel coaches in large numbers and subsequently use these cars in regional passenger service. During this phase these cars were also equipped with control lines for push/pull service. A total of about 2,400 units were built and they formed the backbone of the SBB’s passenger car roster. The lightweight steel coaches made up a harmonious whole with the class Re 4/4 I electric locomotives (with two trucks), which were perfect in terms of technology and appearance. From 1947 on these cars and locomotives in particular consistently defined the look of Swiss train consists.

The lightweight steel passenger cars go well with the Re 4/4 I electric locomotive, item no. 39420.

43370 - Lightweight Steel Passenger Car

Price: $ 41.44

Prototype: Swiss Federal Railways (SBB) type B. 2nd class with 2 entry doors per side.

Model: The car comes in a spruce green color scheme with the diaphragms originally used on the car. The car looks as the prototype did around 1965. This car can be retrofitted with the 7319 plug-in current-conducting couplers or the 72020 working close couplers that can be uncoupled. Length over the buffers 26.0 cm / 10-1/4”. DC wheel set 4 x 70 0580.

Highlights:

Completely new tooling.
Scale dimensions.
Built-in interior details.
Ready for installation of current-conducting couplers.

43380 - Lightweight Steel Passenger Car

Price: $ 41.44

Prototype: Swiss Federal Railways (SBB) type B. 2nd class with one entry door per side.

Model: The car comes in a spruce green color scheme with the diaphragms originally used on the car. The car looks as the prototype did around 1965. This car can be retrofitted with the 7319 plug-in current-conducting couplers or the 72020 working close couplers that can be uncoupled. Length over the buffers 26.0 cm / 10-1/4”. DC wheel set 4 x 70 0580.

Highlights:

Completely new tooling.
Scale dimensions.
Built-in interior details.
Ready for installation of current-conducting couplers.

43390 - Lightweight Steel Dining Car

Price: $ 50.66

Prototype: Swiss Federal Railways (SBB) type WR.

Model: The car comes in a crimson color scheme with the diaphragms originally used on the car. The car looks as the prototype did around 1965. This car can be retrofitted with the 7319 plug-in current-conducting couplers or the 72020 working close couplers that can be uncoupled. Length over the buffers 26.0 cm / 10-1/4”. DC wheel set 4 x 70 0580.

Highlights:

Completely new tooling.
Scale dimensions.
Built-in interior details.
Ready for installation of current-conducting couplers.

43400 - Lightweight Steel Baggage Car

Price: $ 41.44

Prototype: Swiss Federal Railways (SBB) type D.

Model: The car comes in a spruce green color scheme with the diaphragms originally used on the car. The car looks as the prototype did around 1965. This car can be retrofitted with the 7319 plug-in current-conducting couplers or the 72020 working close couplers that can be uncoupled. Length over the buffers 21.1 cm / 8-1/4”. DC wheel set 4 x 70 0580.

Highlights:

Completely new tooling.
Scale dimensions.
Built-in interior details.
Ready for installation of current-conducting couplers.

43531 - Cummuter Car

Price: $ 53.66

Prototype: Belgian State Railways (SNCB/NMBS) type M2 A5B5, 1st and 2nd class.

Model: The car has separately applied window frames. The car comes in a crimson color scheme with white stripes as the prototype looked at the end of Era IV and the beginning of Era V. This car can be retrofitted with the 7319 plug-in current-conducting couplers or the 72020 working close couplers that can be uncoupled. Length over the buffers 27.5 cm / 10-13/16”. DC wheel set 4 x 70 0580.

43533 - Cummuter Car

Price: $ 53.66

Prototype: Belgian State Railways (SNCB/NMBS) type M2 B11, 2nd class

Model: The car has separately applied window frames. The car comes in a crimson color scheme with white stripes as the prototype looked at the end of Era IV and the beginning of Era V. This car can be retrofitted with the 7319 plug-in current-conducting couplers or the 72020 working close couplers that can be uncoupled. Length over the buffers 27.5 cm / 10-13/16”. DC wheel set 4 x 70 0580.

43535 - Cummuter Car

Price: $ 53.66

Prototype: Belgian State Railways (SNCB/NMBS) type M2 BD, 2nd class with a baggage area.

Model: The car has separately applied window frames. The car comes in a crimson color scheme with white stripes as the prototype looked at the end of Era IV and the beginning of Era V. This car can be retrofitted with the 7319 plug-in current-conducting couplers or the 72020 working close couplers that can be uncoupled. Length over the buffers 27.5 cm / 10-13/16”. DC wheel set 4 x 70 0580.

43910 - Express Train Passenger Car

Price: $ 44.44

Prototype: German Federal Railroad (DB) compartment car, 1st class, type A4üm-63 (later the type Am 203). UIC-X design (m cars).

Model: The car has the blue color scheme of the prototype from 1963 on. Realistically detailed trucks with a reproduction of the brake shoes and the generator mechanism. Unlighted red marker light inserts at the ends of the car. This car can be retrofitted with the 7319 plug-in current-conducting couplers or the 72020 working close couplers that can be uncoupled, and it is ready for installation of interior lighting. Minimum radius for operation 360 mm / 14-3/16”. Length over the buffers 28.2 cm / 11-1/8”. DC wheel set 4 x 700580.

Highlights:

Completely new tooling.
Finely detailed trucks with reproductions of the brake shoes
Ready for installation of current-conducting couplers.
Ready for installation of interior lighting.

Comment: Express Train Travel during the Economic Miracle. After the 1950s gave the German Federal Republic (West Germany) an economic upswing and the most important, private basic needs had been covered, many West Germans had a desire to travel. Yet, before the great growth in automobile ownership, the demand was growing for another series of modern passenger cars for long distance express service. The number of new design express train passenger cars placed into service since 1954 was no longer sufficient for this purpose. The DB therefore placed additional modern express train passenger cars into service from 1963 on. The following express train passenger car types belonged to this family of new cars: A4üm-61, 1st class (later the type Am 203), B4üm-63, 2nd class (later the type Bm 234), AB4üm-63, 1st/2nd class (later the type ABm 225), BRbu4üm-61, half dining car, 2nd class (later the type RBbumh 282), and BD4üm-61, half baggage car, 2nd class (later the type BDms 273). The designs for these cars followed for the most part the concept for the first postwar car types of 1953/54, but folding doors were used for the entry doors on the sides of the cars. Externally, the sliding windows with bright gold oxidized lightweight metal frames attracted attention also. The interiors experienced a series of changes in details. In addition, sliding doors were built into the ends of the cars. The 1st class cars with a cobalt blue paint scheme clearly stood out from the 2nd class cars and baggage cars in their chrome oxide green schemes. These consists were among the typical Era III trains used by the ”Economic Miracle children”, who had just arrived into a modest prosperity, to travel during their vacations.

This car can be combined with the 43920, 43930, 43940, and 43950 car models to make up a typical Era III express train car consist.

43920 - Express Train Passenger Car

Price: $ 44.44

Prototype: German Federal Railroad (DB) compartment car, 2nd class, type B4üm-63, (later the type Bm 234). UIC-X design (m cars).

Model: The car has the chrome oxide green color scheme of the prototype from 1963 on. Realistically detailed trucks with a reproduction of the brake shoes and the generator mechanism. Unlighted red marker light inserts at the ends of the car. This car can be retrofitted with the 7319 plug-in current-conducting couplers or the 72020 working close couplers that can be uncoupled, and it is ready for installation of interior lighting. Minimum radius for operation 360 mm / 14-3/16”. Length over the buffers 28.2 cm / 11-1/8”. DC wheel set 4 x 70 0580.

Highlights:

Completely new tooling.
Finely detailed trucks with reproductions of the brake shoes
Ready for installation of current-conducting couplers.
Ready for installation of interior lighting.

This car can be combined with the 43910, 43920, 43930, and 43950 car models to make up a typical Era III express train car consist.

43929 - Express Train Passenger Car Set

Price: $ 178.87

Prototype: ”Hans Sachs” F-Zug (long distance express) consist: German Federal Railroad (DB) type A4üm-61 (later the type Am 203) 1st class express train passenger cars in blue, ”Mitropa” type WR4ü dining car, car number 1215, used on the German Federal Railroad (DB).

Model: Express train passenger car set, four cars, consisting of three type A4üm-61 1st class express train passenger cars and one ”Mitropa” type WR4ü dining car. The cars appear as the prototypes did at the start of the 1960s, including the train destination signs imprinted with ”Hans Sachs”. Realistically detailed trucks with a reproduction of the brake shoes and the generator mechanism. These cars can be retrofitted with the 7319 plug-in current-conducting couplers or the 72020 working close couplers that can be uncoupled, and they are ready for installation of interior lighting. Minimum radius for operation 360 mm / 14-3/16”. Length over the buffers 113.1 cm / 44-1/2”. DC wheel set 16 x 700580.

Highlights:

Hans Sachs long distance express train route Munich - Hagen.
Finely detailed trucks with reproductions of the brake shoes

Comment: The Fast F-Zug trains of the German Federal Railroad – At the start of the 1950s, the new German Federal Railroad went back to the prewar tradition of the legendary FD-Zug trains (long distance express trains) and created a new train category with the F-Zug trains (cross-border long distance D-Zug express trains and long distance express trains). These trains were run with mostly 1st class cars and consisted of special cars for this important long distance service. The route network for these trains was also called the ”blue F-Zug network” because of the blue paint scheme on the passenger cars in the trains. Train number F 37, ”Hans Sachs”, from Munich to Hagen, had one of the particularly long routes. The subdued red of the Mitropa dining cars used in these trains contrasted effectively with the rest of the train consist and helped provide the quality look of the F-Zug express trains so highly prized by passengers in the 1950s and 1960s.

A lighting kit will be available later. The class 01 locomotive, item nos. 39010 and 39015, go well with this car set

43930 - Express Train Passenger Car

Price: $ 44.44

Prototype: German Federal Railroad (DB) compartment car, 1st and 2nd class, type AB4üm-63, (later the class ABm 225). UIC-X design (m cars).

Model: The car has the chrome oxide green color scheme of the prototype from 1964 on. Realistically detailed trucks with a reproduction of the brake shoes and the generator mechanism. Unlighted red marker light inserts at the ends of the car. This car can be retrofitted with the 7319 plug-in current-conducting couplers or the 72020 working close couplers that can be uncoupled and it is ready for installation of interior lighting. Minimum radius for operation 360 mm / 14-3/16”. Length over the buffers 28.2 cm / 11-1/8”. DC wheel set 4 x 700580.

Highlights:

Completely new tooling.
Finely detailed trucks with reproductions of the brake shoes
Ready for installation of current-conducting couplers.
Ready for installation of interior lighting.

This car can be combined with the 43910, 43920, 43930, and 43950 car models to make up a typical Era III express train car consist.

43940 - Express Train Passenger Car

Price: $ 46.77

Prototype: German Federal Railroad (DB) half dining car, 2nd class compartment car with a dining car buffet area, type BRbu4üm-61, (later the type RBbumh 282). UIC-X design (m cars).

Model: The car has the chrome oxide green color scheme of the prototype from 1962 on. Realistically detailed trucks with a reproduction of the brake shoes and the generator mechanism. Unlighted red marker light inserts at the ends of the car. This car can be retrofitted with the 7319 plug-in current-conducting couplers or the 72020 working close couplers that can be uncoupled, and it is ready for installation of interior lighting. Minimum radius for operation 360 mm / 14-3/16”. Length over the buffers 28.2 cm / 11-1/8”. DC wheel set 4 x 700580.

Highlights:

Completely new tooling.
Finely detailed trucks with reproductions of the brake shoes
Ready for installation of current-conducting couplers.
Ready for installation of interior lighting.

This car can be combined with the 43910, 43920, 43930, and 43950 car models to make up a typical Era III express train car consist.

43950 - Express Train Passenger Car

Price: $ 46.77

Prototype: German Federal Railroad (DB) half baggage car, 2nd class compartment car with a baggage area, type BD4üm-61, (later the type BDms 273). UIC-X design (m cars).

Model: The car has the chrome oxide green color scheme of the prototype from 1964 on. Realistically detailed trucks with a reproduction of the brake shoes and the generator mechanism. Unlighted red marker light inserts at the ends of the car. This car can be retrofitted with the 7319 plug-in current-conducting couplers or the 72020 working close couplers that can be uncoupled, and it is ready for installation of interior lighting. Minimum radius for operation 360 mm / 14-3/16”. Length over the buffers 28.2 cm / 11-1/8”. DC wheel set 4 x 700580.

Highlights:

Completely new tooling.
Finely detailed trucks with reproductions of the brake shoes
Ready for installation of current-conducting couplers.
Ready for installation of interior lighting.

This car can be combined with the 43910, 43920, 43930, and 43940 car models to make up a typical Era III express train car consist.

44192 - Refrigerator Car
Price: $ 13.67

Prototype: Privately owned car painted and lettered for the firm Chupa Chups.

Model: The car has Relex couplers. Length over the buffers 11.5 cm / 4-1/2”. DC wheel set 2 x 70 0580.

44193 - Refrigerator Car
Price: $ 13.67

Prototype: Privately owned car painted and lettered for ”Schöfferhofer” of the firm Radeberger Gruppe GmbH, Frankfurt am Main, Germany.

Model: The car has Relex couplers. Length over the buffers 11.5 cm / 4-1/2”. DC wheel set 2 x 70 0580.

46038 - Freight Car Set

Price: $ 65.44

Prototype: Gondola with a brakeman’s platform, type Isu gondola, and type Oe stake car with side walls of boards and shaped stakes. Swedish State Railways (SJ).

Model: Both of the gondolas have load inserts with scale sized coal. The stake car has a real load of wood. All of the cars are painted and lettered for Era III. Total length over the buffers 30.7 cm / 12-1/16”. DC wheel set 6 x 70 0580.

Export model for Sweden. ”150 Anniversary of the Swedish State Railways”. This car set goes well with the class steam freight locomotive, item no. 37555.

46090 - Freight Car Set

Price: $ 132.21
Goes with: 37196, T24319

Prototype: Four DRG cars and a privately owned car: type K gondola with hinged roof hatches, „Wuppertal” Association design. High side gondola with a brakeman's cab, „Essen” type Om. Boxcar with a brakeman’s cab, „Kassel” type Gr. Gondola with medium high walls, peaked end walls, and ridge pole. Privately owned tank car with a brakeman's cab, used on the DRG.

Model: 5 different freight cars painted and lettered for Era II. The gondola with hinged roof hatches is weathered with traces of limestone. The high side gondola has a load insert with a layer of scale sized real coal. The boxcar has sliding doors that can be opened. All of the cars are painted for the DRG. Total length over the buffers 54.1 cm / 21-5/16”. DC wheel sets: 6 x 70 0580, 2 x 31 2999 04, 2 x 32 3760 04.

Comment: DRG Freight Service – Era II for the German State Railroad Company (DRG) extended from 1920 to 1945. The image of freight trains from this era was very much characterized by long consists of two-axle cars. Freight cars with more axles or with trucks were the exception then. The consists usually conveyed the image of a colorful mix of all kinds of different car designs, because the individual provincial railroads participated in the founding of the DRG with their existing pools of cars. The DRG also introduced air brakes on all of the cars. Although this innovation did away with the need for protection against the weather for brakemen, the brakeman’s cabs remained for a long time even on rebuilt cars. In addition, the freight train service that went all over Germany now under the DRG management made for a large variety of cars on the railroad, because transport by road was hardly an alternative at that time. Hence, at that time almost any kind of freight you could imagine was shipped by rail, particularly over long routes. The variety in loads resulting from this situation also provided a colorful look to freight train consists.

The E 91 electric freight locomotive, item no. 37196, as well as the Trix car set, item no. 24319 go well with this car set.

46254 - High Capacity Hopper Car

Price: $ 27.89

Prototype: Dutch State Railways (NS) type Fals high capacity hopper car. Version with type Y25 trucks.

Model: The car has a load insert with a layer of scale sized real ballast. Length over the buffers 13.3 cm / 5-1/4”. DC wheel set 4 x 70 0580.

46301 - Hopper Car with Hinged Roof

Price: $ 31.44

Prototype: German Railroad, Inc. (DB AG) type Tds 930 hopper car. Version with hinged roof load area covers.

Model: The car comes in finely detailed, reddish brown version with many separately applied details. The car has a separately applied chute extension. The hinged roof can be opened and closed. Length over the buffers 11.2 cm / 4-7/16”. DC wheel set 2 x 70 0580.

Highlights:

Hinged roof covers can be opened and closed.
Car type ideal for unit trains.
Very finely detailed construction.

46325 - High Capacity Covered Hopper Car

Price: $ 33.22

Prototype: Type Uapps high capacity covered hopper car for transporting bulk food products, privately owned car painted and lettered for the firm Société des Produits Nestlé S.A., used on the French State Railways (SNCF).

Model: The car has large format advertising for “Nescafé” on the sides of the car. The car is finely constructed with many separately applied details. The car has a metal insert for a low center of gravity for smooth running. Length over the buffers 17.1 cm / 6-3/4”. DC wheel set 4 x 70 0580.

Export model for Switzerland/France.

46326 - High Capacity Covered Hopper Car Set

Price: $ 97.44

Prototype: 3 special cars for transporting grain (Ceraliers). Standard design privately owned cars, used on the French State Railways (SNCF).

Model: 3 privately owned cars painted and lettered for the firm ”Sanders”, used on the French State Railways (SNCF). The cars have large advertising printed on the sides. The cars are finely constructed with many separately applied details. The cars have a metal insert for a low center of gravity for smooth running. Length over the buffers 51.5 cm / 20-1/4”. DC wheel set 12 x 70 0580.

Export model for France.

46330 - Hopper Cars

Price: $ 68.33

Prototype: 2 type Falls privately owned cars painted and lettered for the Swiss firm Makies AG, Gettnau, Switzerland. Used on the Swiss Federal Railways (SBB/CFF/FFS).

Model: The cars come in an emerald green paint scheme with separately applied details. Total length over the buffers 27.2 cm / 10-11/16”.

46557 - Petroleum Oil Tank Car

Price: $ 32.22

Prototype: Privately owned car painted and lettered for the firm Ermewa GmbH, Hamburg, Germany. Tank car with a funnel-flow tank, used on the German Railroad, Inc. (DB AG).

Model: The car has a finely detailed, partially open frame. The platform and walkway are separately applied. The car has type Y25 trucks. Length over the buffers 18.0 cm / 7-1/16”. DC wheel set 4 x 70 0580.

46625 - Spherical Container Car

Price: $ 26.89

Prototype: Dutch State Railways (NS) type Ucs. Car with 2 containers, each with 17 cubic meters / 449 gallons (34 cubic meters / 898 gallons) capacity.

Model: The car’s frame has a partially open frame. The car’s lines, platform, and fittings are separately applied. Length over the buffers 10.5 cm / 4-1/8”. DC wheel set 2 x 70 0580.

46715 - Crane Car Set with Working Digital Functions

Price: $ 104.55

Prototype: Crane car with a crane tender car. Privately owned car painted and lettered for the firm Leonhard Weiss, Göppingen, Germany.

Model: The crane car has 3 built-in Piezo mechanisms and a special version digital decoder, for digital control of the crane with a 6021 Control Unit or Marklin Systems. The crane can be controlled precisely with the following functions: The crane cab can be turned to the left and right, the crane boom can be raised and lowered, the crane hook can be. The crane car and the crane tender car are permanently coupled together. The crane tender car comes with a boom support. The crane tender car comes with permanently mounted pickup shoe for power pickup. The cars have Relex couplers. Total length over the buffers 20.8 cm / 8-3/16".

Highlights:

Precise control of the crane.
Crane hook can be raised and lowered.
Crane boom can be raised and lowered.
Crane cab can be turned.

48006 - “Kaiser Brauerei” Museum Car Set for 2006

Price: $ 45.00

Prototype: Type Bt 10 flat car for containers, with a brakeman’s platform. Privately owned car painted and lettered for Kaiser-Brauerei W. Kumpf, Geislingen/Steige, Germany, loaded with 3 beer containers. Used on the German Federal Railroad (DB). MAN type F8 truck, loaded with a beer container that can also be used on the flat car for these containers.

Model: The car has a separately applied data sign with the lettering Marklin and Museum 2006 in a reproduction of German cursive chalk writing. Railroad car length over the buffers 11.2 cm / 4-7/16”. The model of the truck is made mostly of metal with separately applied plastic parts. DC wheel set 2 x 70 0580.

One-time series.

48060 - Sliding Wall Boxcar

Price: $ 28.55

Prototype: German Railroad, Inc. (DB AG) type Hbbills 308 with insulated walls.

Model: The car has separately applied steps. Length over the buffers 17.8 cm / 7”. DC wheel set 2 x 70 0580.

48150 - Insider Annual HO Car for 2006

Price: $ TBA

Prototype: Type Tehs 50 refrigerator car, privately owned car used on the German Federal Railroad (DB).

Model: The car has separately applied roof vents. The car has separately applied ladders on the ends. Privately owned car painted and lettered for the firm Interfrigo, with large advertising printed on the sides for „Migros Suisse”. Length over the buffers 13.4 cm / 5-1/4”. DC wheel set 2 x 32 3760 04

One-time series in 2006 for Marklin Insiders.

48809 - Freight Car Set

Price: $ 81.22

Prototype: Swiss Federal Railways (SBB) type K3 boxcar with a brakeman’s cab and type J3d. Barrel car. Privately owned car, used on the Swiss Federal Railways (SBB).

Model: Both of the boxcars have a brakeman’s cab and 2 sliding doors that can be opened. The flat car has permanently mounted barrels made of real wood and many separately applied details. All of the cars look as the prototypes did in early Era III to the end of the 1950s. Total length over the buffers 35.0 cm / 13-3/4”. DC wheel set 6 x 70 0580.

This car set goes well with the Eb 3/5 tank locomotive, item no. 37136.