Hi all,

I have asked previously similar question for SNCF passenger cars and I got very good information back then .

I would like to ask what CFL locos are "right ones" to pull these CFL passenger cars?

Märklin 4126 and 4127? Also what era these are and if someone knows in which Märklin catalog I could find them? I tried to find them from catalogs 1984-1989? and with no success... If these are too new era vs. my CFL locomotives, then I can imagine they as a train which is pulled by a restored museum locomotive .

Märklin 43971 "Donnerbüchsen" 4 car set from 1950´s?


Here is my CFL locomotives:

3134 Nohab Type 1600 diesel locomotive

34158 Serie 5600 steam locomotive

37154 Serie 5600 steam locomotive

37560 Serie 5600 steam locomotive

In my opinion the older 1950´s cars go well with any steam locomotive. 4126 and 4127 are a bit more difficult ones as their color won´t fit in my eays to 3134 diesel very well and the same thing with green 1950´s cars. Maybe it will "see" only freight cars behind it. There is not too many locomotives to choose from CFL Luxembourg. But it is such a small country so I can pull other countries cars behind them also and/or pull CFL cars behind other countries locomotives. I would like to set up a possible prototypical international train though if I will "mix" two or other countries.

Thank you very much from answers in advance!

Regards,
Janne

Hi Janne,

I run my green/ivory CFL coaches with my CFL1800 diesel. I found a prototype photo showing this configuration.

Thanks Ray,

Then it is possible to mix the trains from countries Luxembourg, Belgium, France and Germany + also Switzerland. But those oldtimer 1950´s passenger cars will go behind one of the CFL Serie 5600 steam locomotives as they are right era for them. Also Luxembourg must have got these Serie 5600 (ex German BR 52) after WW II (after 1945) like many countries did. I don´t have any fact for this, but I presume it went the same way there also.

Janne

Here is a website I have found useful on trying to get correct compositions for my CFL collection

www. beluxtrains.net

There is a link for 2009 and earlier compositions on the left side index.

Thank you very much! Interesting website. It can be seen that very different countries locomotives and rolling stock have been mixed in Luxembourg. I will just see all older ones and have already got to 1984 ones, but I can't find the 4126/4127 CFL coaches yet. It seems like full green CFL coaches were much more common ones.

Regards,
Janne

Hi Janne,

Some pictures of coaches in the colours of 4126/27 can be found here:

http://www.rail.lu/materiel/cflwegmann.html

"CFL Wegmann" also brings more results at GOOGLE. The Märklin-cars only appeared in Export-catalogues, in numerical-order dealer-catalogues and in special leaflets for BeNeLux. Not in regular catalogues.

Regards

Markus

Hi,

In 1996 there is a train CFL 3600 electric dark red/yellow pulling three of these CFL Wegmann (Märklin 4126/4127 coaches). So it could be also "the right one" for these. I think I will just use my older CFL 1600 (Märklin 3134) with them or mix the countries. There is very colorful consists of different countries and the same trains HAS many times different lenght coaches.

Regards,
Janne