Today, I have ordered the above twin set of the brown and the green crocodile locomotives from Joes-Modellbahnlaedle for my retirement present. I had looked around at other crocodile models, but this seemed to be a very nice set. Has anyone else bought this set and if so, what are your thoughts? Alan

I was not aware that they are dimensionally more accurate than the earlier productions (3356 to 39564). The models represent two different production versions of the SBB Crocodile, the Ce/Be 6/8II and the Ce/Be 6/8III.

The new set is interesting, but I passed on it because I am more interested in a version that would be appropriate for the period 1968-1972, when each side of the lok had only one set of cab steps.

I did not get the Roco shunting Krok but I might opt for it if I saw a mint one in box somewhere.

Regards

Mike C

It is a very good set indeed. You will feel satisfied.
The 2014 new item 37568 (still to be released) is a more usual green version though.
My suggestion is you have both 37565 and 37568 :)

i confirm: excellent design and flawless operation.
Very powerful (it has *two* high quality motors on each loco)
Also, being an engineer by trade, I took a good look at the design itself from a manufacturing standpoint.
Here again *very smart* every single part is used at least twice with the only exception of the centre part.
Better even than the previous generation!
You *will* be happy with it.
Cheers

Hi all, a parcel arrived from joes-modellbahnlaedle today. I am the proud owner of two gorgeous crocodiles. I had always admired them when I was a small boy back in 1958 when my father started me off on the Marklin trail.

After a small administration error, the parcel was despatched late Friday afternoon. Here is a copy of the DHL logging.

Fri, 14.02.2014 16:35 clock - The instruction data for this shipment have been provided by the sender to DHL Electronically
Fri, 14.02.2014 17:42 clock Koengen, Germany The international shipment has been processed in the parcel center of origin
Sat, 15.02.2014 03:43 clock Cologne, Germany The shipment will be Transported to the destination country and, from there, handed over to the delivery organization. (Website / online shipment tracking: http://www.parcelforce.com/track-trace )
Sat, 15.02.2014 03:43 clock Cologne, Germany The international shipment has been processed in the export parcel center
Mon, 17/02/2014 14:08 clock United Kingdom The shipment has arrived in the destination country
Mon, 17/02/2014 14:09 clock United Kingdom The shipment has left the import parcel center in the destination country.
Tue, 18.02.2014 07:22 clock United Kingdom The shipment is being prepared for delivery in the delivery depot
Tue, 18.02.2014 09:19 clock United Kingdom The shipment HAS BEEN successfully delivered

It took 3.5 days to get to me in Scotland and that includes Saturday and Sunday. That is what I call service! Alan

Finally tonite a reply, and he says he is coming over to NZ in a couple of weeks, so then I will get my Brown Croc I trust !
I will post a pic when the beast arrives in my hands

I am very happy to report that correspondence was re engaged and the said expat Kiwi forum member, arrived in Auckalnd yesterday and handed me my 37565.01 at the airport !

I gave her a little test earlier today and she runs very nicely, seems to have a lot of pull (against the fingure at least) and very loud sounds, which I will turn down !

Also the model is complete with no missing windows

There does not seem to be an indusi magnet on this model which IIRC is correct for it, but the green one does have one I think ??

Edit; Duh Just need to look at post #7 Svein's excellent pics to answer that one

I am hoping to revive this thread and get some feedback from 37565 owners.

I recently bought this pair of crocs and I am very happy with mine. They run smoothly at very slow speeds and make a really nice MUC. The detailing and proportion are way ahead of my old 90's analog croc and the mostly metal construction is nice.

But I know about all of the discord in the community about the 3-pole motors and less than state of the art electronics.

So what do people that actually own these think of them 2 years later? I would really like to hear your opinions.

I am very pleased with the appearance, quality of materials and performance of mine. Like you, I really enjoy seeing the brown and green running together. I broke them in pulling every freight car I own and they pulled smoothly from very low speed and seem to have plenty of power. When I pulled that consist by hand I was amazed at how hard they had been working. Very nice indeed. When run as a pair, they have four motors with flywheels and twelve powered axles. That makes for a very formidable machine, even with 3 pole motors.

So far I don't see any serious downsides to the Hungarian assembly or the simplified motors. I know that some people are really bothered by the items made in China, but the 2001 US freight car sets that I own are very nicely made and they were all made in China. If the level of quality remains I don't care where they are made. I live in the US and buy from Europe, from a Canadian dealer or on eBay. The Marklin branded items are made in at least three countries - that is just the world we live in today.

I also like seeing Marklin take the steps needed to remain solvent and from what I can see the quality/value is actually better now than it was in my older equipment. You have to be agile to survive in todays global economy and I would like to see Marklin continue well into the future.