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Offline Soest  
#1 Posted : 27 October 2010 01:24:59(UTC)
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I have a 3015 from the 1960's, I believe. It has a manual reversing lever. The last year the Marklin catalogue mentions such a lever is 1962-63. I am assuming on the strength of this that my lok was produced no later than this period. This would make it a 3015.10 roughly corresponding to the 1959-64 period. I know that Koll's uses colour as a differentiation between the last two versions of the 3015, but quite frankly I just about go blind trying to differentiate between blau grun and tannen grun. It came with OVP but the date is 1969, so it may not be the correct box. Given that later versions of the 3015 came without the reversing lever, is it a sound assumption that my Croc is a 3015.10?
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Offline Nigel Packer  
#2 Posted : 27 October 2010 01:50:15(UTC)
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The Mikado catalogue suggests that the hand reversing lever was discontinued around 1970, so your croc could well be from 1969 with its original box. In that case, it's probably a 3015.11 in Koll's terms.

This is not an exact science!

Nigel
Märklin collector since age 5.
H0 Collection from 1935 to today.
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Offline eduard71  
#3 Posted : 27 October 2010 02:01:00(UTC)
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My 3015 is from 1970, it comes with the dark blue box and it has the reversing lever. I think that this specific model came with the reversing lever until it was discontinued in 1975, so your OVP is correct and your loco belongs to 1968-1969 batch.

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Eduardo
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Offline Soest  
#4 Posted : 28 October 2010 00:13:30(UTC)
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Thanks very much for your clarifications.
Why do grown men play with trains?
Their wives insist they are insane
But their dreams they won't let down the drain
'Cause there ain't no thing so hard to lose as those disappearing railway blues.
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Offline walters48  
#5 Posted : 29 October 2010 03:53:50(UTC)
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Nigel Packer wrote:
The Mikado catalogue suggests that the hand reversing lever was discontinued around 1970, so your croc could well be from 1969 with its original box. In that case, it's probably a 3015.11 in Koll's terms.

This is not an exact science!

Nigel

Hello,
What is this Mikado catalog? Is it all Marklin? Is it printed in English? Color pictures? Any info would be appreciated.
-Chas
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Offline Nigel Packer  
#6 Posted : 02 November 2010 18:16:46(UTC)
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walters48 wrote:
What is this Mikado catalog? Is it all Marklin? Is it printed in English? Color pictures? Any info would be appreciated.


The Mikado Catalogue is an alternative to Koll's. It has better photos (all in colour), and further details of, for example, train sets made by Märklin. It covers Märklin H0 from the beginning (1935) up to about 1965, so is mainly for collectors of older stuff.

The latest edition I know of is the 3rd edition, from September 2005.

Here's a link to a seller:

Mikado catalogue

I bought mine at a swapmeet in Germany a few years ago.

Nigel
Märklin collector since age 5.
H0 Collection from 1935 to today.
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