I joined this forum a couple of days ago, after reading for a while as a guest visitor.
I'm a 46 years young railroad modelist living in Holland.
As a child we had a small Trix Express modelroad at home, so I grow up with trains and the 3 rail system.
Later I started again (with my sons) with Marklin with a small railroad, nothing special, only 4 digital loco's
But now I want to change things and I'm going to build a 1950s model railroad.
A few weeks ago I started collecting and buying 1950 Marklin stuff.
And the buying is quite an adventure !
I bought a lot of 00 system 3600 tracks and turnouts.
Some sellers really asked insane lots of money for this 3600 tracks.
There is a guy on 'Marktplaats' (Dutch Ebay like website) that sells 100 pieces of 3600 track for € 825,00.
He gives a Marklin catalog for free to his buyers..., YES RIGHT !! He must be joking asking that price.
But when I looked further I found a couple of times the same amount tracks for only € 30 or € 50, with lots of original boxes !!
And some tracks where still rapt in Geman newspapers of the seventies
This track type is between 60 and 65 years old but it is so amazing that some of the track pieces look brand new and has never been in use or laid hands on.
Man, I really love the look of the 3600 tracks with the solid middle rail.
Looks so much better than the plastic C stuff.
I wanted older "vorkrieg gleise" (pre war) 3600 track with 16 sleepers in stat of 24, but could not buy it anywhere, maybe 10 or 20 pieces but not enough to build a proper railroad,
Also starting collecting 1950s and 1960s books of Faller and Marklin and so on.
I also love the old Faller, Kibri and Vollmer scenery.
This week I also bought some rare Faller in Belgium, I'm wating on the box and cann't hardly sleep.
And I bought this week LOCO 3051(1) that was build between 1965-1967.
The Loc looks almost brand new and runs perfectly.
I wanted this Dutch beauty loco for a long time and the box arrived today.
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