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frickwg		#1 Posted : 29 December 2020 21:12:44(UTC) Retweet
Joined: 27/03/2014(UTC) Posts: 74 Location: CALIFORNIA, SAN CLEMENTE		I would like to buy some Trix Swiss passenger cars and run them on my Märklin layout. Is it as easy as swapping couplers or is more involved? I do not need have car lights or any other use of power by the cars, just so they run behind a Märklin Loco and, even better, that I can couple them in a trains of Märklin Passenger cars. What is involved? How hard? Willis Frick
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xxup		#2 Posted : 29 December 2020 21:30:15(UTC) Retweet
Joined: 15/03/2003(UTC) Posts: 9,472 Location: Australia		Just change the wheels to Marklin wheels (the product description gives you the correct part number).. In fact, if you don't have any contact tracks (for s88 or level crossings) on your layout, most times, you don't even need to do that..
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frickwg		#3 Posted : 29 December 2020 22:20:20(UTC) Retweet
Joined: 27/03/2014(UTC) Posts: 74 Location: CALIFORNIA, SAN CLEMENTE		What about the couplers?
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kiwiAlan		#4 Posted : 29 December 2020 22:26:13(UTC) Retweet
Joined: 23/07/2014(UTC) Posts: 8,109 Location: ENGLAND, Didcot		Originally Posted by: frickwg What about the couplers? Recent items will have couplings very similar to Marklin ones. Items older than about 20-25 years may need couplers to be checked.
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kgsjoqvist		#5 Posted : 29 December 2020 22:33:09(UTC) Retweet
Joined: 04/06/2002(UTC) Posts: 754 Location: Täby		Originally Posted by: frickwg I would like to buy some Trix Swiss passenger cars and run them on my Märklin layout. Is it as easy as swapping couplers or is more involved? I do not need have car lights or any other use of power by the cars, just so they run behind a Märklin Loco and, even better, that I can couple them in a trains of Märklin Passenger cars. What is involved? How hard? Willis Frick One difference may also be the length scale of the coaches. Some Märklin coaches are only 24 cm long, but true to scale they would be 27-28 cm or even more. It looks a bit funny if you mix different makes of the same prototype if the length is different.
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5HorizonsRR		#6 Posted : 29 December 2020 22:57:41(UTC) Retweet
Joined: 05/12/2004(UTC) Posts: 2,865 Location: CA, USA		If you are using C track you don't even need to swap the wheels, the Trix stuff runs just fine since their own track is the exact same rail profile etc...
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frickwg		#7 Posted : 29 December 2020 23:04:22(UTC) Retweet
Joined: 27/03/2014(UTC) Posts: 74 Location: CALIFORNIA, SAN CLEMENTE		Are the coupler pockets the same so I can just add standard Marklin couplers? Do you need a new pocket?
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mike c		#8 Posted : 30 December 2020 04:54:49(UTC) Retweet
Joined: 28/11/2007(UTC) Posts: 7,898 Location: Montreal, QC		Let's start by asking which Trix models you are interested in? Do you have the model numbers? Regards Mike C
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H0		#9 Posted : 30 December 2020 18:46:15(UTC) Retweet
Joined: 16/02/2004(UTC) Posts: 15,267 Location: DE-NW		Originally Posted by: 5HorizonsRR If you are using C track you don't even need to swap the wheels, the Trix stuff runs just fine since their own track is the exact same rail profile etc... That's not true. Trix C track has different rails and different spacing than Märklin C track. Trix items with 3xxxx numbers will not run on Märklin C track and the couplers will not work with Märklin couplers. Trix items with 2xxxx and 4xxxx should be fine - 4xxxx items already come with AC wheelsets.
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5HorizonsRR		#10 Posted : 30 December 2020 19:08:09(UTC) Retweet
Joined: 05/12/2004(UTC) Posts: 2,865 Location: CA, USA		Originally Posted by: H0 Originally Posted by: 5HorizonsRR If you are using C track you don't even need to swap the wheels, the Trix stuff runs just fine since their own track is the exact same rail profile etc... That's not true. Trix C track has different rails and different spacing than Märklin C track. Trix items with 3xxxx numbers will not run on Märklin C track and the couplers will not work with Märklin couplers. Trix items with 2xxxx and 4xxxx should be fine - 4xxxx items already come with AC wheelsets. Thanks Tom! This is interesting, so is the rail code on the trix "c" track not the same as the Marklin track? The spacing I did know, apologies for any confusion by my not mentioning it.
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