At this price will it be a hobby loco with sound or new tooling I would like new tooling. The hobby one is ok for just over 120euros but not any more. Still it's a nice paint job

I thought the same! I do hope that Marklin wake up and produce some up to date modern detailed locomotives. If they don't I will end up buying another make. There's only so many 70s and 80s era locos I want! What's happened to 2014! they make a TGV and Thalys but no freight locomotives apart from hobby range ones which are ok, but it would be nice to have detailed ones And that concludes my ranting for 2013 have a good new year forum

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Anders is really doing good job to create new item


We can buy Trix Hector Rail locomotives for only 55€ and then repainting price better than Piko....

Hi don't get me roung. The hobby loks are nice and I have two myself. I may even have the ECR 36616 model. It's not super detailed but it's still ok as it has a metal body plus it's running quality is very good indeed. It even runs around radius 1 K track!

Then there is the factory mounted sound.

For other TRAXX models you have to get sound decoders 60949 for electric or 60948 for diesel loks at an RRP of €99:99. This means that for instance a 36600 at € 129:95 would with sound be at 229:94. Compared to a 36617 at € 179:95.

This Swedish model made in only 499 copies is a bit more expensive since the tool costs for the printing is only distributed between the 499 loks, and how many 36617 are made? If it is 5,000 then the costs of the printing tools (which I believe are simpler for 36617 compared to 36613) would be one tenth (or less) per lok of that for a 36613.

A 36613 at SEK 2,245:- would be approximately € 250:- at an exchange rate of SEK 9 to the €. For those who would consider this lok and live outside the EU, the VAT in Sweden is 25 % (compared to 19 %(?) in Germany) which means you can ask for a VAT reduction of 20 %.
(The same could apply if you have a registered company in the EU with a VAT-registration number. The tricky thing might be for such a buyer to explain to the tax authorities in the buyer’s country why his/her company would need a Märklin model for its business if it isn't a model train seller).

As Jonas points out it arrived yesterday and I picked up mine today!

Rush Rail 185 415-8 "Sleepy", Märklin 36613 (available only from www.trainshop.se ).

Photos of my Märklin engine - not as nice as that by Jonas, but it could add information for those considering ordering this model and do not live in the Stockholm region. Furthermore the photos show the white front lights (LED) and red marker lights (LED) as I wrote about in an earlier posting.







Rush Rail has seven engines of this type and they are is used in timber trains. This link takes you to a map showing the timber train routes in central and southern Sweden. A photo from Rush Rail's Internet photo archive showing a timber train:




Given that the Märklin 36613 won't show up when searching the Märklin database, I hope that I'm excused for showing the same pictures also under "Show us your "Locomotive(s)" purchases - 2014 Edition.".

Very nice model.

It looks a very clean and tidy model. I think these budget models go very well with the older generation of Marklin and of course the new thanks for the pics and info.
And also this nice Snow picture