Like the boxcar. The tanker they have done in this series before (green IIRC). The silo wagon is a new addition, although I'm not to sure about the bold branding on it.

Wonder what they will do for a factory tour wagon?

I expect to be in Goeppingin on Friday, arriving Thursday night. Will PM with probable arrangements, so should be OK.

Thanks for offer

Alan

There are downloadable info sheets at https://www.maerklin.de/de/erleb...neum/maerklin-tage-2019/. It also lists entry prices.

such as the Hall Plan and List of Exhibitors and magazine pages that list the wagons already posted.

Depends on how much you like trains, I suppose!

My group always manages to spend all three days at the show without running out of things to do.

Nigel

As Nigel says, and if you haven't been before you'll need the full three days. If you've been before and know the geography and routine then you might get away with just two days. Friday is quieter certainly, and best for the factory tour. That's almost half a day in itself. Sunday has the benefit of seeing the departures of the real trains from the station at around 4. I've no experience of them packing up early on the Sunday either, it's still a full day. Saturday we intend to do the 4@4 again, all gather on Platform 4 at 4 o'clock to meet-up and put names to faces and possibly try to take some group photos, although previously this has been like herding cats. I think two days in Stuttgart is enough, one day for the multitude of micro breweries and one day for shopping and looking at the S.21 construction at the HBF. There are nicer places to visit nearby. You could do the Mercedes Benz and Porsche Museums if you are into cars. Teddy Bears etc at Steiff, in Giengen am Benz; Waldenbuch for the Ritter chocolate factory and shop, Horb for the SVG railway museum and swap meet on the Saturday 7th, Metzingen for fashion factory outlet shopping, Reutlingen and Tubingen possibly done together, Rt is the working town with shopping and Tu is the old style University town, worth a day out. A Baden-Wuertemberg Regional Ticket will get you everywhere in the B-W region reasonably cheaply by bus, tram and train.

IanC

They were not last time, and the time before although they were claimed to be, it was just a case of finding the bus out the back of the exhibition hall, but from memory last time it was on the normal shuttle bus route, without any attempt to make special arrangements to get there.

But last time (two years ago) I did the factory tour around the middle of Saturday and there were no factory tour wagons left, for some reason they grossly underestimated the number they needed to make. Bear in mind also that the factory is not open on the Sunday.

The point may be less the 3 IMA days. The point may be, what are you doing the three days before? Be happy you are a F1 fan, so you have to (yes sorry, but for a F1 fan it is obligatory) to go to the museums of Porsche and Merceds-Benz (Daimler) in Stuttgart - minimum one day each. See the Silberpfeile and the Porsches from the 24 hours in Le Mans and Nuerburgring, for example. Do you remember Hans-Peter Porsche Traumwerk? Beside a H0 layout with some trains (over 180 pieces ) he has a small Porsche museum there as well.

For companions not interested in cars, you may send to the "Königstraße" in the center of Stuttgart. An over 1 Kilometer long major shopping street in Germany. But quite expensive.

If you want to see all exhibition sites at the IMA days, you need these 3 days completely. Do not forget, the exhibition is spread all over the city on 3 or 4 major places. But these places are all connected by a circle bus line. Easy to visit all places, but needs a bit of time. Then it is not only H0. It is LGB, track 1, N, Z layouts at different places as well. You see most of the companies you know from the internet live at the exhibition center with their demonstration objects and you have company people you may talk to. Last time I visited ESU and WinTrack. This needs plenty of time. It is like going to a business fair. Even looking at the kids as they are playing with MyWorld is a joy for itself. Afterwards nobody will grumble any longer that MRR is mostly played by old, grey haired buggers - like myself.

I live not too far away from Goeppingen, so I go there only for one day. No problem to me coming back again next time seeing another exhibition site. So I have not yet visited the Leonhard-Weiss-area to see as real track lines are build today. Then I can recommend doing a ride on a real nostalgic train, which is offered. These takes some times perhaps half a day. I never have done it at the IMA days, because meanwhile I have here in Germany a great variety of offers doing such rides at other place with less crowds. The most well known one may be the "Säuschwänzlebahn"

https://sauschwaenzlebahn.de/

(cannot set this link in English, but at the upright corner you may select your language).

Perhaps you remember from the Maerklin Magazin too.

Hi all

We'll be in Goeppingen from Thursday evening.

Ian - Will try to do the 4@4 - if we emember.

If not I'm sure we will meet somewhere around the show.

I hope to get a silo wagon this year - that is my favourite of this year's line up.

Mike