To the best of my recollection, you have pretty much listed all of the models of American prototypes that were made by Maerklin with the exception of the two models of the Northlander trainsets (ex-SBB/NS RAm/DE TEE) set numbers 3150 and 37500.

Regards

Mike C

Extending the topic a bit - what do you think the chances are that Märklin would make US versions of TRAXX locos?

An example here.

I know it's not a very serious model, but no-one has mentioned the 2921/2922 "western" set made by Marklin years ago. The loco is based on the 3087 KLVM steamer with added cowcatcher and no buffers, and it's lettered for the Texas and Western RR. The cabboose was, I think, unique to this set too. Maddog trains has one for sale at the moment, including extra cars.

Thanks Ray, I must confess, I used my 3087 from the "Circus Mondolino" set, painted it black and added a few "Santa Few" decals. It now runs as my track cleaning car coupled to a few weighed down red dump cars. Not proto-typical but does a great job. I must look for that cow catcher as an add-on somewhere.

Jeremy, What is the American connection to the 37914? - Sorry, a check on the Marklin website explained it to me!

I always thought the Northlander was pulled by F7's in the Marklin collection, I know now better.

A silly just for fun question. As a Canadian (Swiss) locomotive does it really qualify to be called "American". I am sure our Canadian members will ave an opinion on this.

Thanks

Leon

Taking a different view on the definition of American one could also debate whether X995 is American.

If one would take the definition of American to mean the American continent (or at least North America) and then question the Northlander train as being of Swiss origin and bought "pre-owned" and thereby question it as being American. In that case the X995 is even more questionable.

The X995 (Märklin 83341) was a model based on the Swedish SJ class Rc and the prototype was a matter of fact the SJ Rc4 1166 that made a "guest appearance" with Amtrak in 1976-1977 as the X995. Once back in Sweden it had stainless steel plates telling about it on the outside of the cabs. From what I've learned they were stolen and even later when being re-painted in SJ's blue livery all signs of the USA visit have been removed.

I have a vague memory of having taken a photo of the commemorative sign on Rc4 1166 when it was still in the orange livery, but being a slide, I really don't know where it is. (To scan my slides and make a more easily searched digital archive is on my "to do list").

Edit on November 15th:

I found my slides. They were shot on July 5th, 1980 at the SJ loko depot in Gothenburg. First a picture of SJ Rc4 1166 with a yellow ring showing where the commemorative sign was located:



and then the sign itself:



It reads:

Detta elektrolok litt Rc4 nr 1166

var utlånat till Amtrack i USA under

tiden augusti 1976 - april 1977.

Med litt X995 gick loket i reguljär

trafik mellan New York och Washington

och kördes med upp till sth 200 km/h.

(NB sth = största tillåtna hastiget = maximum allowed speed)


And a quick translation:

This electric locomotive class Rc4 No 1166

was lent to Amtrack in the U.S. during

the time August 1976 - April 1977.

As class X995 the locomotive went in regular

traffic between New York and Washington

and ran up to maximum allowed speed of 200 km/h.

Edited by user 15 November 2011 12:16:13(UTC)  | Reason: Typing error and adding pictures

Leon,
one nice F7 set is the #26600 California Zephyr -train.
At least it's in my wishlist!

www.amerklin.net has a pretty good list what's been made over the years:
http://www.amerklin.net/catalog/itemlist.php

BR,
Juha

Hi Juha,

I agree, that is why I got the Amtrak set.

http://imageshack.us/pho...images/64/amtrakset.jpg/

Regards

Leon

Edited by user 19 November 2011 08:14:30(UTC)  | Reason: Not specified

Thanks Herman, I've sent you a mail.

Regards

Leon

The X995 in the later Sweedish Orange with plaques would be sa nice model for Marklin to do a run of- with zero tooling costs!

I would buy a marklin X995 if I could find one. I would like to have one just because I find it interesting. I just learned somthing today. I never knew that the X995 went back to Europe. That is really interesting. thanks

We at ETE SoCal ran one time American Märklin models on our modular layout.
Not very prototypical with all possible road names, but who cares, the scenery doesn’t match either.
It was fun!

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Has anybody mentioned the Challenger?

Rafael

If memory serves, there was a switch loco made by Marklin with US Army marked on it from the early days of post war occupation in Germany but I don't remember if it was a US loco or a German switch engine stamped with US Army.

Ed

I was stationed in Berlin from May of ‘89 to April ‘93 and took the Duty Train to Frankfurt and back several times. If memory serves, it ran officially until unification in October of ‘90. I still have my movement orders, aka “Flag Orders” and boarding passes. As it operated at night, there wasn’t much to see of the GDR. I’ve thought of reaching out to my various FB groups to see if anyone has more information about the equipment used… there HAS to be a former conductor or two still around.

My dad was stationed at a US army munitions facility as a warehouse inventory staffer from 1953 to 55 in France, but not far from Zweibrucken Germany. He told me that the trains used to transport troops from Saarbrucken were smaller cars and quite noisy.
I don't have any photos of the train, only a few of the base with fellow officers, one has Charleroix written on the back, but I looked it up and it seems to be in Belgium.

Question for Brakeman in Post #31. In the first video at 1:08 minutes I see several yellow UP passenger cars that do not appear to be Marklin made.
What brand are they and were any modifications done to make them run well on Marklin C tracks. Were the wheels changed, and what wheels were used?
Thanks.

I can't see the FEF 37984 mentioned.
It's a beautiful locomotive with synchronized smoke. The smoke unit broke immediately and I sent it back to my dealer.

My dealer got new replacement parts from Märklin which didn't work so they had to send it back to Märklin. It took a year to get it back but now the steam works.