M. will be thinking about it so I guess we can speculate

Isn’t it announced in November?

Ah that will be what they showed us during our exclusive little get-together at the IMA, but yes we were sworn to secrecy

Ah that will be what they showed us during our exclusive little get-together at the IMA, but yes we were sworn to secrecy
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The price of the TEE will be about 900!!!

The price if is the TEE will be about 900!!!!

Didn't they do the RAm already?

For anyone who might be interested, here is a small history.
With acknowledgement for the text to TRAINZ.
TRAINZ TEE

The primary function of the Dutch/Swiss TEE was providing the once daily Edelweiß service, each way between Amsterdam & Zurich via Basle, Luxembourg and Brussels. These trainsets were also seen sharing the Amsterdam to Paris 'Etoile du Nord'; the 'Oiseau Bleu' between Brussels and Paris and later the Zurich-Paris-Zurich 'Arbalete'; and the Zurich-Munich-Zurich 'Bavaria'.

At a time when electrification of the Edelweiß route was incomplete, and the existing sections were of different current systems it was considered there was no alternative to diesel power for this TEE.

Even if the electrification could have been completed, developments in multi-system technology hadn't sufficiently evolved to traverse the 4 different current systems involved; 1500V DC in the Netherlands; 3000V DC in Belgium; 15000V 16 2/3 Hz AC in Switzerland, and 25000V 50Hz AC in France.

In 1957, 5 train sets were delivered, DE-1001 to DE-1003 to Nederlandse Spoorwagen (NS) and RAm 501 & 502 to Schweizerische Bundesbahnen (SBB).

The power cars were built by Werkspoor in the Netherlands; 2 Sulzer 1000 HP 16 cylinder diesels powered a generator that delivered current to four traction motors. A further 350 HP engine provided on-board power supply; and at that time, adoption of a A1A-A1A wheel arrangement was necessary to achieve a suitable axle load of 20t.

Coach stock was Swiss built, Schweizerische Industrie Gesellschaft (SIG) drew on experience gained from the construction of the 'Leichtstahl' (lightsteel) series coaches. The consist included a passenger car with 9 compartments each seating 6, a restaurant car and an open coach fitted with remote cab and streamlining to match the power car.

The inclusion of a pilot coach eliminated the necessity for time consuming shunting manouevres at end stations; the consists were semi-permanently coupled and treated as self propelled vehicles.

With the spread of electrification in Europe and advances in multi system electric train technology; with the exception of 501, which had been destroyed in an accident, the DE TEE1/RAm trainsets were withdrawn in 1974. The Ontario Northland Railway (Canada) took possession of all the remaining vehicles in 1976, for use on the 'Northlander' Timmins-Toronto express service.

However i am disapointed at Märklin present another swiss model as insider model again.

.....Korkodile.....