Marklin #37513 was released in 2010 at relatively low price (I paid 158 euro excluding german VAT)
It has mfx decoder with sound, although the sound palette is not much; just a whistle and station announcement.
The body is plastic, sit on metal chassis and fully metal mechanism.
This is Marklin's plastic body locomotive which I like most. It run surprisingly quiet for a locomotive with high-efficiency motor, the quietest among my other HE-motor locomotives. However, the pantograph on cab #1 (located above the two axle leading wheels) will always go off the catenary at R1 curve, but the pantograph on cab #2 works perfectly fine. Probably this is due to the design, as the bogie of the two axle leading-wheels can shift lateraly instead of just pivoting.
This locomotive is numbered 10452 of SBB and painted in brown color, thus it supposed to replicate the prototype Ae 3/6 II during 1920s era. Marklin printed "Winterthur" on the side panel of this locomotive, but according to information from wikipedia, number 10452 was stationed at Lucerne during 1920s, moved to Zurich in 1939, and Winterthur in 1960. But by 1960 it had been painted green color.
Another interesting information from
german wikipedia, I quoted here:
Die Lokomotive 10452 wurde weitgehend in ihren Ursprungszustand (inklusive braunem Anstrich) zurückversetzt und bleibt so der Nachwelt als betriebsfähige Lokomotive erhalten. Weil zuerst zugunsten der Erhaltung von 10439 entschieden worden war, diese sich aber in schlechtem Zustand befand, wurde 10452 zu 10439" umnummeriert. English translation by google:
The locomotive 10452 has been largely restored to their original condition (including brown paint) and will remain for posterity as serviceable locomotive. As was first ruled in favor of the preservation of 10439, was this, however, was in poor condition, was 10452 renumbered to 10439. Thus it seems as the present day 10439 is actually the restored 10452.
Printing quality is excellent for plain color, but grainy on the metallic-yellow (gold color). This is understandable as metallic color contains coarser particles.
Roof view of the locomotive, nicely detailed
Frontal view of cab #2, showing three headlight and handrail
Under the chassis, the slider and metal gear on driving wheels.
Inside the body, contains mfx decoder and sound board, small loudspeaker, and the HE motor. The lights were originally generated by conventional bulbs, 4 bulbs in total. But I changed the bulbs with LEDs plus resistors, one LED for each head light, thus a total of 6 LEDs were used.
Close up photo of the metal transmission cog-wheels, and the tiny loudspeaker. The sound is very soft, even at 100% volume level.
Another view of this beautiful locomotive, taken from "ground level" angle to emphasize the driving wheels mechanism
