Hi -i am a newbie to this forum and an avid collector (and loco engineer) of marklin gauge 1 for my garden railway. Most of my locomotives are battery powered and radio control. One problem however with the garden railway is the amount of damage my locos seem to suffer. Most recently i have damaged the bogies on my Wannentender Class 38 (no.5597). I was wondering if anybody had a spare parts list for this loco and/or knew of a source for spare parts for repair. Hope you can help. Oh by the way i dont know how many of you out there have converted their locos to battery rc but its a doddle and its great to be able to run these fine engines regardless of the state of the track. Will post some photos soon. I Would like to hear of anyone else who has the done battery rc conversions particularly if you have tried alternate (non marklin) sound modules
best regards

Welcome to the forum, Timit.

I just ordered a number of expendable spare parts for my "fleet" of 5720's, and I discovered that Mother Marklin doesn't recognice the part numbers for the "brushes".

As an example, I gave my friendly dealer the number 60 041 for the brushes, and about a week later he wanted me to confirm that it was a good number. Don't blame he in the least. So I forwared him the list provided to me my Markus a gracious list member, and the dealer later got back to me with the number of 600 350.

I later checked on this site that it is a Marklin number for brushes, but would like to get some sort of confirmation that the "brushes" with this part number is valid for my loks?

I have tried the Marklin site to no avail, but this could be the case of another Duh moment! Any suggestions.?

Thanks Markus, for confirmation of the new part number for brushes. The number 600350(one copper & 1 graphite) are in my loks. Looks like Mother M upgraded along the way.

In the meantime, I recalled that another list member made mention of walthers.com, The new USA distributor (2008) for Marklin.com. Well I checked their site, and WOW! They sure gots the stuff.

Went down to Manufacture's and # 442 for Marklin and spare parts. There I found on page 125! the part 600350 with a description "for 1 gauge".

On the same page I also found part # 600660. This latter part carries the description of "oil reservoir sponge" pk/10s. I also need a couple of these. I was going to use "cork" as a sub, but I will try to order this part.

Regards,

Gene