DCM equiped Re 10/10 or 6/6 is no option for me. The noice of the DCM would over stem all other loco's and a upgrade with a LP3.5 sound decoder would be worthless.

But on the other side, nice of them to comminicate this by e-mail. Its quite frank and open. It enables me to make up my mind which Re 6/6 to buy.

After how many hours of running do we need to open up the loco to clean out the gunk?

Any news yet?

Picture of 37274 and 48409 but now in stock! See ebay.

My two Re 4/4 IIs are the smoothest running DCM models in my fleet - but this is only because I've put ball bearings on them.
Otherwise they are about average IMO.

One of my ex-Delta Re 4/4 II is currently running quite noisy,
despite having been fitted a new motor shield (no bearing yet on this one); and had just received a drop of oil on either side of the armature. But this is just a typical behavior of some of the DCM models I have.



Let me start by saying that I can't agree more.

No point in arguing further the point further to Marklin;
it's their product, and at the end of the day I respect that manufacturers should have the final say on what spec they want to put into their products.

I might not agree with their call; but from their perspective, relying too much on too many differing opinion of customers, might in the end just confuse product development.

Let's the sales number be the final decider whether Marklin had made the right call or not. It's really Marklin's problem and not ours..

I've told Marklin that I'd buy 37321, but very unlikely to buy any other release of this Re 6/6; simply because it will not meet my full expectations as a new model...
Otherwise I'd buy every one of their new Re 6/6 releases.

For me, this model also represent an investment risk.
Marklin have the manufacturing ability to fit SDS on this model anytime they want; and I'm sure was able to make good profit still by developing SDS for such model.

Remember also that judging from the history, they had ran two major "product launches" to upgrade as many DCM models as possible with Sinus. This is what they've keep pointing as "the future". So that is where I'm putting my money on.

It is a email from Marklin customer service.

No news?

They are sure taing their time!

Not even a rumour yet.

Nothing on Stummi's even??

As I recall, 37893 is also the subject of "hot" discussion at Stummi.. not unlike what we're having here
http://stummi.foren-city...lich-br44-art-37893.html

December, now ... [|)]