 Joined: 15/02/2021(UTC) Posts: 3 Location: Florida, Jacksonville
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Hello, This is my first post here. I have recently bought three Marklin 3030 locomotives that are connected to each other by wires so they work together. I attached a picture. There is a pick up shoe in only one of them. The others do not even have the plate or screw hole for a pickup shoe. I was wondering if this set up is original. Any advice is appreciated.  Thanks, Murat
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 Joined: 11/06/2007(UTC) Posts: 210 Location: Eslöv, Sweden
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Hmm, strange setup! I guess someone tried to make it ressemble a dm3 engine used to haul the iron ore train between Kiruna, Sweden and Narvik, Norway. Have a look at either the Märklin or ROCO models of DM and DM3. The one called DM is actually 2 DM's connected back to back. A DM3 is actually a DM consist with an added DM3 unit between the 2 DM's.
Peder
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 Joined: 29/07/2007(UTC) Posts: 1,437 Location: Switzerland
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 Joined: 23/07/2014(UTC) Posts: 8,510 Location: ENGLAND, Didcot
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Originally Posted by: Murat  Hello,
This is my first post here. I have recently bought three Marklin 3030 locomotives that are connected to each other by wires so they work together. I attached a picture. There is a pick up shoe in only one of them. The others do not even have the plate or screw hole for a pickup shoe. I was wondering if this set up is original. Any advice is appreciated.
Not quite true. I can see a threaded hole for the screw that would hold the pickup shoe on the left hand loco, and I can see the connection plate for the pickup shoe on the middle loco. I can't see enough detail on the right hand loco to see the screw hole. The wiring between locos is somewhat amateurish and would look pretty unsightly on a layout. Certainly not an original Marklin 'feature'.
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Joined: 15/02/2021(UTC) Posts: 3 Location: Florida, Jacksonville
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Thank you all very much. I can see now what they were thinking. Well, I bought them cheap and all three locomotives are in good condition. They removed the reversing units on the front and end locomotive. I will restore them to their original beauty.
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Joined: 15/02/2021(UTC) Posts: 3 Location: Florida, Jacksonville
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Thank you so much Kurt. All the best, Murat Originally Posted by: kamstutz
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Joined: 27/02/2013(UTC) Posts: 25 Location: zurich
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Hi all, I recently got this kind of DM 3. It was manufactured from three Märklin 3030 by Lokschuppen Hagen-Haspe in Germany in the 80ths. In Switzerland have been two small manufacturers of this DM 3 loco. Swisstoys/Romeo Pianezzi in Thalwil Loki-Spengler in Wohlen They each made very small amounts of this beast of locomotive.     enjoy Rei |
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Be interesting to know how much they were, I've got 1 from Roco with 2 motors
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