Hi all,

What is your oldest Märklin locomotive? Is it still analog or converted to digital? All my older locos (pre 1960 and many newer) are analog and will be forever. Most of them have still original current pick-up shoes/slider(s) and clear traction tyres (if any). Older type four position reversing units are still there in most of them if installed originally.

My oldest analog ones are listed below.

Steam locomotives:

HR 800 N.1 and HR 800.2 DRG BR 01 from 1947 and 1950
F 800.2 and F800.3 DB BR 01 from 1952 and 1954
Two G 800.1 DB BR 44 066 from around 1950-1952
DA 800.1 DB BR 23 from 1954-1955
FM 800.1 DB BR 24 from 1956
RM 800.1 DRG BR 24 from around 1950-1952
Many TM 800's DB BR 80 from 1949 =>
Many CM 800.1's and CM 800.2's DB BR 89 from 1953-1958
3027.3 DB BR 44 from 1958-1961
A few 3031.1's DB BR 81's from 1959-1962
(Coming soon 3048.2 DB BR 01 from 1961-1963)


Electric locomotives:

SE 800.1 DB E 44 green from 1950-1951
CE 800.1 DB E 63 green from 1953-1957
CE 800.7 DB E 63 red from 1964
RET 800.1 SBB Re 4/4 green from 1954-1956
3024.1 DB E 18 green from 1958-1959
Two DB E 41 blue 3034.1's, FS E 424 3035.1's and DB E 41 green 3037's from 1960-1968


Diesel locomotives and rail bus:

DB 800 K/DB 800 B (3016.1/4018.1) DB rail bus from 1955-1958
Two DB 800 K/DB 800 B (3016.3/ 4018.2) DB rail bus from 1959-1962

Many 3021.1, 3021.2, 3021.3 older two lamp DB V 200 006's from 1957-1959 and also newer 3021 models from 1960 => I have actually around 25 of these 3021 models...

Many 3065.1, 3065.2 and 3065.3 DB V 60 from 1963-1968

3066.1 or 3066.2? SNCB 204 "Nohab" from 1964 =>

Two 3072.1 DB V 100 from 1966-1968

3069.1 SNCB 260 from 1963-1964

3075.2 DB 216 from 1968-1971



As you can see I like also older analog Märklin. Especially from around 1947-1958.

Cheers,
Janne

Edited by user 30 August 2016 09:48:35(UTC)  | Reason: Updated the list

Hi Janne,

Very nice collection.

My oldest Marklin is a 1927 R950 Clockwork O gauge Loco and tender.

Ian.

My oldest loco is my 1957 SK800, so it will be 60 years old next year, older than I am!

I believe it is a v17, which was produced from 1954 to 1958.

It is still analog and will stay that way. It is still original except for the tyres, which I replaced with rubber ones when the clear tyres fell apart. I have the original red box, but one end of the box has come away (I do have the piece that has come away and I'm open to suggestions as to how to reattach it, but I don't want to tape it), so I keep the loco in its box, which in turn is kept in a seal-able plastic container.

My first is also a V200 3021 from 1967 from the starter set 3121. Oldest is most likely a 3021 which has telex and a manual reversing lever road number 81 004, I might have the model number wrong and I am not sure of it's age, only guessing because of the reversing lever.

Mine is the start set 3100, with tank loco 3000, 3 passenger wagons 4000, and track, from 1959 - a Christmas gift from my Mom and Dad, along with the small blue transformer 6013. I still have everything from the set, but alas no box!!
The loco still runs, serviced many times over the years, and will remain analog......
Joe
PS The cost was 4 pound 3 shillings and sixpence for the set and 2 pound 5 shillings for the transformer - our currency was Sterling in those good old days....

I just picked up a Hornby o gauge clockwork set from the 20s boxed. The box is ruined as one of the owners put his name and address in ink on the cover in 6 different places. My 3015 is from 1959 ------- a 3016 DB800K from 1959 with 4018 ------------ a 3021 v200 2 lights from 1959/60. These are the oldest

Hi all

My oldest has been in the family from new.

It is a 1957 3011 bought by my father in 1957 in Gutersloh.
He handed it on to me when I was about 7/8.

It regularly still appears at shows on my layout.

The only replacements have been a few bulbs and a pick up slider shoe.

Mike

Mine would be my late 1970's 3085 that was my grandfathers (as well as a good old 3000 that sits in my display cabinet) - both have huge sentimental value to me. I finally bought them to the States from Australia on my last visit home two years ago. I finally converted the 3085 to digital and added a smoke generator. I am sure my Grandfather would have loved it.

I got my first train when I was a child in Italy, around 1963, when I was eight years old. It was a set that my father bought for the family and he played with it as much as I did, together.

Eventually, the train gear consisted of three locos: the 3000, 3035 (FS 424 locomotore) and a two-piece Rail Car, no. 3016 and 4018.

We also had a few wagons, mainly the 4000.

We brought the train to Canada (Ottawa) in 1968 (worked very well with a voltage transformer) and it became my nephew's when later on in the year we moved to Toronto and I forgot all about it. I never found out what happened to it since my nephew does not remember; probably it was given to another kid.

Some 44 years later, I came across on the Internet an ad for a Marklin catalogue in Italian for the 1963-64 season and snapped it up. I cherish this catalogue as much as the locos of the time.

On September 19, 2012, I dropped by Mike's at Marklin's West End Trains here in Toronto for the first time. To my astonishment, he had a similar set to the train I used to have and bought set 2963 for almost a song (don't tell him I said that ). It came with a couple of 4000 wagons, M tracks, a transformer and a little loco with a chimney like a coffee maker.

I then purchased a 3000 at Mike's and the 3035 in Italy - which Mike digitized and runs great.

My most treasured loco is the 3035 followed by the 3000. I bought a new 30000 (now in the shop at Mike's waiting for a replacement decoder ). Let's not forget the catalogue, a close no. 3 in my heart. Sooner or later, I may end up buying the Rail Car and have Mike digitize it. No rush.

The original 3000 runs but not very well. I have had it cleaned but not too long after, back to square one. I hardly ever run it now, it's just a trophy. I am actually considering having Mike digitize this one as well.

There you have my Marklin life story.

Good night everybody from Toronto.

Silvano

I love a story with a happy ending!

A HR800 brought in the very early 50's so it could be even late 40's . I was born in 1948 . Need to do a translation of Krolls for the HR to work out which model I actually have along with the SK & G 800's I could be sitting on a imaginary fortune .



Cheers Tom in Oz .

My oldest lok is 13 years older than myself: A green E41 (3037) from 1958.
Converted to digital in 2003 and pushing a consist of Silberlinge since.

Best regards,
Gregor

That's a 1949 T790... I've also got one of those, and it's my oldest loco.