Hope someone can help. As the nights draw in thoughts must go toward lighting. The track (analogue) is festooned with turnout lights and quite a lot of leds which sort of look out of place but hey, they are cheap...

I only have one older lit coach with just two bulbs and this is what I would like to repeat. (I'm referring to the 1975 catalogue and all my coaches are tinplate)

The lit coach I have is 346/3 and would appear to have two 7077 and a small pick up without bulb, which looks more like 7074 without a bulb and not 7198. I don't think this amounts to set 7322 which looks as if it is for use with diffusers.

So, the question is, what am I looking for? 7077 is pretty straightforward but for these older, shorter coaches can I use pickup 7198?

Or is there an easier way to do this?

I shall add that this topic was discussed in this forum a few years ago
https://www.marklin-user...-for-Marklin-346-coaches
:)

To confirm, 7198 works fine on older 346 type coaches.

However, I have hit a snag! In my enthusiasm for seasonal lit coaches I did not take into account the havoc that the lighting pick ups would cause on a track controlled by 5146 type switch tracks. Not sure how to get round this. Any suggestions?

I have run into this same issue. A possible solution which wouldn't really work on any floor layouts, but if you plan to keep consists together you could create a wiring system to connect all of the lights to the locomotive's slider... and basically have a plug/socket going to each car rather than powering the cars individually.