well, the mfx decoders with sound powered by the central station begin to live their own lives :
see the 'official' news from Märklin, seen on the Lokshop.de site, item 37803, class 10 002 , the last two items on the table which tell you the (sound) functions.....
This one is an oil-powered steam engine, so who shovels coal or empties the grate....
So i can operate this one on my 6021 without losing much....and have to buy no CS.
But, collectors be aware : if this will be corrected by Märklin, we will have a new rare item.....
Best wishes to you all around the world
Alfred

I think he is saying collectors will pay more for the model with incorrect sounds. Like the stamp with the airplane upside down.

Ah yes,
got it. I read the number wrongly, and my mind got totally lost.
/Lars

But it is very easy to change the sounds, one could put sounds from any lok to any lok or just make up your own. I don't know about rare, but I have a number of loks that have sounds that no one else has... If interested I may be willing to part for one of these rare (only one in existence) loks for the right price[}:)][}:)][^][^].

Just call it "an error" or " a mistake"... All industrial MRR manufacturers are making such small mistakes...also Roco ( inversed engraving of doors, wrong pantograph embasis etc...etc...)
Sometimes it's also some typo or some photomontages on catalogues.....( I don't believe they really add a coal sound on it , it is so easy to erase it )
In case of doubt while reading catalogues ,I think we , customers , should warn them about such mistakes ...Today it is so easy....

Hello,
in the last years M regularly published another news brochure, called "export programm" (anyhow it was called that way in Germany). But I remember at least one year when the export articles have been included in the normal news items. There are some foreign models in the 2006 list published so far, e.g. Netherlands, Switzerland, France. Does anyone have an idea wether we can expect a separate "export news" list 2006 and if so, when can we expect it ?
Juergen

no problem , it's o.K. for me with the 'wrong' sound.....
While 'surfing' through the different resources for the new M items i discovered a new so called display, number 00756 'Profi Züge' but can't find any hints what will be the contents of this. Does anyone know something about that ? BTW : the 'old' display 00751 can't be found on the M site, too........
Have fun with the new items
Alfred

The prices for the Insider VT08 have now been reported and are:

€499,00 in H0 and €99,00 for the Weltmeister car.

and €349,00 and €39,95 respectively in Z.

p.

Welcome to the forum Jürgen.

Welcome to the forum. We have discussed the lack of information regarding new items for Systems and we can cetainly empathize with your frustration. Hopefully Märklin will be making some announcements at the Neuheiten show.
Ira

post scriptum Could you please state your country?

Uhm... very little "export" program this year... expecially for Italy! Maerklin promised a new "all italian" item for this year(almost 40 years after the #3035), but there is absolutely nothing! Not even a FS version of some German goods car! What a bad surprise!

any images?

Just received the Insider package including the new items brochure and the dvd with the Neuheiten video (not viewed yet except for some promising seconds on the pc). The railbus looks quite nice to me in the large pictures shown in the Magazin.

Jeroen

That's me again about CC 40100 & "étoile du Nord" ...I hope that I'm not boring you with this subject

As it was originally planned to run within four countries( Holland-germany-belgium-france)the CC 40100 had four pantographs . In fact This Lok only ran few times in Holland never in scheduled service .During all its life this lok mainly ran through France & belgium also through germany for a short period .So depending on which model Marklin will make, it could have only three pantographs...
Anyway,At Nuremberg Toy fair Marklin has confirmed that ALL pantographs will be motorised ....As someone asked how they'll manage to install four or three motorised pantograph into a single Loksound Lok they didn't bring any precisions except confirmation that they have already found a solution . Some people felt that it could be done in a different way than they have done with Insider model of BR 103 .

About PBA coaches , the situation is completely different . ( "PBA" comes from " Paris-Brussels-Amsterdam") . They are french TEE coaches specially made for the line. I'm sure they went into service on other lines too... depending on the period but I'don't remember exactly which ones , I have to search for it...

" Etoile du Nord" has been a TEE train for a while.
Coming from france, all PBA coaches were in scheduled service into several countries including Holland-germany-Belgium & France . PBA coaches were pulled by different kind of machines and probably included into various consists from various railroad companies, TEE and non TEE, depending on which era...Anybody knows ?

About TEE trains, next time I'll open a new topic...
Sorry if I'm annoying yo...I like the story of these old International fast trains.....and this one was one of the last great trains with a strange machine ( a little bit fragile because complicated and too innovative at this time)and comfortable TEE coaches.....(Going to brussels I have been travelling sometimes with this train too)

Too much standardized ICEs & TGVs today ( but so reliable and efficient for hurried people )that's another story...

Roland- Not annoying at all, very interesting.
Ira

thank you all for encouraging me !
Thanks to Pierre Gillard too ..

Marklin France representatives said a special leaflet about the model will be edited later ....

I love it. I remember as a young child, the first train trip I took alone from Brussels to Paris was on the Etoile du Nord. My mother met me at Paris - Gare du Nord and was really proud of me and my "adventure".

Thanks for the link.