Yes!



Yes, I would think so - the track connectors seem to be the same as other tracks, but I have never used these myself. I'm using the 5654 feeder clip, which can be fixed to any piece of straight track picture attached.

I don't really know the answer to question #3 as I don't have any of those turnout types - I have only the 5976/5977 1020mm radius turnouts. I would however advise you to avoid buying 600mm radius curves and turnouts - Your V100 and V60 might go through them, but if you ever buy a larger loco, 1020mm is the minimum they will handle.

The 5900 is the "very old" type, the 5903 is the old type, and the 59058 is the new type.

5900 has different connectors in the ends than 5903; but both are stainless steel; the 59058 is the "Hübner" type, made of nickel-silver.

Look here: https://www.marklin-user...vs--5903.aspx#post366985

The picture is gone; but can be seen via Google - pictures: "Marklin 5900", by me it comes up as picture no. 4.

I don't know your electrical operated turnouts; they are older than any of my equipment.

You don't "have to" buy 600 mm radius curved tracks for your turnouts; you can make the same curve with 1 + 1/3 no. 5935.

( I don't think your V100 can run on the radius 600mm tracks )

If you insist on using radius 600mm curved tracks for your turnouts, you can have a few of mine for free, I don't use them.

I can probably also offer you some straight tracks.

Per.

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Power feeders

Per.

Thank you for helping me to decide the correct track parts. So I have only bought those 5935 curves with the correct track connectors. All turnouts and 5990 feeder tracks have the oldest type longer track connectors as 5965 and 5966 manual turnouts are the older version ones. There are newer type 5965/5966 manual turnouts available, but in that auction I won all are these older ones with longer track connectors. I can buy some newer type track connectors for them to be able to connect them with newer tracks.

I think I will buy ten 59033 longer 900 mm straight tracks to go with those 5935 curves. I just decided not to use 600 mm radius curves to avoid any problems. Per, thank you for your kind offer anyway .

I can now understand better why I got those turnouts and feeder tracks for so cheap price. I hope that the track connectors are easy to change, so I can use them all together.

Janne

Hi again,

I bought from eBay 10 x 59033 (900 mm straight stainless steel track), 5 x 5903 (300 mm straight stainless steel track), 5 x 5922 (600 mm radius curved stainless steel track), 2 x 5602 track bumper and 59095 newer type track connectors (50 pcs.).

So I changed my mind and decided to use 600 mm radius turnouts and curves for these turnouts + the 300 mm straight track parts to be able to build some side tracks for the locomotives without the need to buy other type turnouts. I am not really sure if that 55031 starter set V100 loco is able to run on these or not, but I will give it a try with very slow speed first to see what happens. 54325 BR 260 (not V60 like I wrote before) is able to run on them at least.

Janne

I'm sorry Janne; but I find this strange ?? Didn't you read my post?

Everything you just bought from Ebay you could have bought from me ( Both new or used ), and I am sure to a much lover price.

Whatever, it's your money

Per.

Hi Janne.

You are right about shipping costs from Denmark to Finland; but I have a way around that; if you can wait 2 weeks.

What I found yesterday looking through my stuff:

New tracks, most of them from starter from starter sets, meaning no boxes.

5935 ( I have 40 pieces ) 4,- Euro/piece

5903 ( I have 50 pieces ) 3,50 Euro/piece

59033 ( I have 5 pieces ) 11,- Euro/piece

5977 ( I have 2 pieces ) 40,- Euro/piece

5602 ( I think I have 2 ) 10,- Euro/piece

I also have 5904, 5916 and 5917 pieces.

I also have track connectors; but mine are the 56091 type; identical to those on the tracks. ( 56095 are the "new" Hübner type )

I also have a lot of the 56031 track clips, good if you make a large temporary layout.

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Used track, meaning dusty and 2mm holes drilled in 2 sleepers on many of the track pieces. Many of the tracks have "my type" of power feeders mounted.

5922, you get 5 for free; but I have more

5935 ( I have at least 16 / full circle ) 2,50 Euro/piece

5903 ( I think I can find 10 ) 2,50 Euro/piece

59033 ( I have at least 10 ) 8,- Euro/piece

I think I can find 1 or 2 used turnouts R1020 too.

I also have several smaller bits; but it takes some work from me to find it all.

Of course you will get pictures if you are interested.

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I also have a 5970 turnout, 2 x 5971 turnout and 20 x 5901 tracks; these are the "browned" type; mechanical identical to the other tracks; but the stainless steel is made brown by Märklin. They don't sell them any more; and if you want a "nice" layout, I think it will look wrong with these mixed with the other tracks.

Regards

Per.

P.S: I might also have "a little" H0 tracks

Hi all,

I met Per (Purellum) on Saturday and he brought me a lot of Märklin 1 gauge tracks straight to my home . I have now more than enough of these . Today I built a layout in our livingroom. I first built it and afterwards I put all the tracks to Wintrack 11.0 Demo program to remember how to build it again and to show how I build it. In this Demo version the saving of the layout plan is impossible, but I used Windows 7 Snipping Tool to take some photos from this one.

Later I changed new style track connectors to some older type turnouts and power feeding tracks which I bought earlier from German eBay. So those older ones can now be used with these newer type tracks (these are not the very newest type of tracks though as I prefer the stainless steel tracks). Here are some photos from the 1 gauge layout I built. It takes around 25 square meters space in our livingroom = around 6,8 meter x 3,7 meter... It has 16 pieces of 900 mm lenght straight tracks and many other track pieces. I have still 6 more of these long straight tracks, but they are stored now in my garage for future plans.

First track plan without one extra siding and then with that siding. Actually I built this extra siding later with another siding running parallel with this one using one older radius 600 turnout. Other turnouts and tracks are either radius 1020 mm or 1176 mm, but this extra siding and also the siding behind our sofa has only 600 mm radius curves and turnouts. Only my BR 260 can run on such steep curves. My V100 will run only on those wider radius curves to stay on the safe side and not wear out the cardans etc.

It is great fun to run these large locomotives . These have the real track noise/sound like the real prototypes as these are heavy. I have only one Märklin "Maxi" BP Olex tank car and I should really buy more freight cars now.






Also our youngest 8 months old son and Märklin fan was happy about the new tracks and large trains:




More photos of the built layout soon...

Regards,
Janne

Hello Janne!

Nice layout for the kids!

I have also a small one with 3 turnouts, but installed occupies all the living room.

My boy love to play with it, since for his age (7) the train is very huge!

Cheers,

Walter

Same here... Gauge 1 only when found reasonable prices... They are quite expensive...

Cheers,

Walter