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Hello! I visted a toy museum near my home town. They have a lot of Märklin trains. I have been there for a couple of times and there is always something new! This time it was very special, I have only seen it in pictures before. It's fully functional and the owner of the museum demonstrated it! He also told me the story behind this particular wheel. It has been owned by a bicycle shop that also sold Märklin, and the museum had rescued it from being thrown right into the garbage when the building that held it was gonna be renovated. I have seen that there are other objects, like this one. For example a "pendulum". Does someone know more about this Märklin article? Was it exclusivly made for shops only? /Bertil     Edited by moderator 08 June 2018 13:47:18(UTC)
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Originally Posted by: Herrfleck  Hello!
I visted a toy museum near my home town. They have a lot of Märklin trains.
I have been there for a couple of times and there is always something new!
This time it was very special, I have only seen it in pictures before.
It's fully functional and the owner of the museum demonstrated it!
He also told me the story behind this particular wheel. It has been owned by a bicycle shop that also sold Märklin, and the museum had rescued it from being thrown right into the garbage when the building that held it was gonna be renovated.
I have seen that there are other objects, like this one. For example a "pendulum".
Does someone know more about this Märklin article?
Was it exclusivly made for shops only?
/Bertil
It looks like the sort of thing that Marklin may have supplied for advertising purposes when they were actively promoting Marklin Metall, rather like the signals and display signs in another couple of threads here. Good catch by the museum though.
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Hello!
There is M track inside the wheel and a BR 89 Märklin 3000 runing inside it!!
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LOL, so obvious now that you mention it Bertil. Surprised that I didn't notice it before.  |
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Hi Bertil,
Can it possibly be the toy museum in Eslöv?
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Most definitely.. I am not sure I remember seeing the wheel there when I was last at Eslov two years ago.. Maybe it was in the downstairs section that was not officially open at the time? |
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Hi, Tischbahn has a article written from this wonderful item! WUNDERRADBR Åke Edited by moderator 11 February 2019 04:46:52(UTC)
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I remember reading an article in the past couple of years about a Restaurant somewhere in the USA, south maybe, which had one of these on display, there was a bit of a story behind how they came to acquire it.
I've searched and googled for the last wee while but I just can't find anything about it - someone else will surely know what I'm talking about and have a link?
Usually I save images and links of things like that for reference but alas, no luck |
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Originally Posted by: Herrfleck Hello!
There is M track inside the wheel and a BR 89 Märklin 3000 runing inside it!!
Bertil That would be fun, getting M track bent like that  Mind you, that only increases the marklin heritage that it was done as an advertising sign. Has anyone translated the label at the bottom? It is obviously talking about the 3000 loco ...
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Originally Posted by: kiwiAlan Originally Posted by: Herrfleck Hello!
There is M track inside the wheel and a BR 89 Märklin 3000 runing inside it!!
Bertil That would be fun, getting M track bent like that Mind you, that only increases the marklin heritage that it was done as an advertising sign. Has anyone translated the label at the bottom? It is obviously talking about the 3000 loco ... *TRANSLATION* "This big wheel is driven by little angry 3000 locomotive - a proof for Märklin locomotives pulling force" Regards Åke
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Originally Posted by: Br502362 Originally Posted by: kiwiAlan Originally Posted by: Herrfleck Hello!
There is M track inside the wheel and a BR 89 Märklin 3000 runing inside it!!
Bertil That would be fun, getting M track bent like that Mind you, that only increases the marklin heritage that it was done as an advertising sign. Has anyone translated the label at the bottom? It is obviously talking about the 3000 loco ... *TRANSLATION* "This big wheel is driven by little angry 3000 locomotive - a proof for Märklin locomotives pulling force" Regards Åke Ah, thanks, now what could it do with zepplin in there ...
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Originally Posted by: kiwiAlan Originally Posted by: Br502362 Originally Posted by: kiwiAlan Originally Posted by: Herrfleck Hello!
There is M track inside the wheel and a BR 89 Märklin 3000 runing inside it!!
Bertil That would be fun, getting M track bent like that Mind you, that only increases the marklin heritage that it was done as an advertising sign. Has anyone translated the label at the bottom? It is obviously talking about the 3000 loco ... *TRANSLATION* "This big wheel is driven by little angry 3000 locomotive - a proof for Märklin locomotives pulling force" Regards Åke Ah, thanks, now what could it do with zepplin in there ... You'd need a bigger wheel or a Banana Zeppelin. But you could run a 3071 TEE around the outside, many of those are banana's already  |
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Hello!
Thanks for all information.
Yes Peder and Adrian it is Eslöv toy museum.
There is a lot more Märklin and layout than 2 years ago.
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I saw one of these a few years ago at the National Toy Train Museum in Strasburg/Lancaster, PA http://www.nttmuseum.org...1/fullsize/newandold.jpgNearby is the Railroad Museum of Pennsylvania with lots of former PRR and other locos, coaches and cars. Regards Mike C
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Hi Bertil, Thank you for the picture. The wheel was available from Märklin from 1956 until the 1960s. It was the most successful shop - window - display model of theses days. I know about ten surviving examples. And I don't know all. The wheel uses mostly buy-able parts but some cams, the electrical parts and the bearings were only made for this model. The cover of the top-light is a part of a 0-gauge pre-war turntable. The rails are Modellgleis series 3900 which have small cuts every ~5cm to bend them. I attach some photos of the parts and the official press picture:     Regards Markus Edited by moderator 09 April 2018 08:14:57(UTC)
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This was great, I saw one in person last fall at a train Museum in Darmstadt Nord. The Museum was great, Steam, Diesel etc. Even had a turntable with train shed that looked like an old Marklin one I have. If you are ever near Frankfurt you can catch a train to it. when you get off the train its right across the tracks, though you have to walk down and around as the entrance is on the opposite side.
The person that gave us a tour was amazing. He not only provided a great tour in German and English, at the end he took us all the way to another town to catch the last steam train ride of the season.
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Hi,
That's a really nice model. I assume it is pre-war? Wish I had a museum like that!
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The sad part is wondering how many of these weren't rescued by a museum or individual. Mind you, I also wonder how many people will find one in Grandad's attic. It's astonishing what turns up sometimes! |
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It would be quite fun to try to re-create one. ** Update 2018 - be careful what you wish for - who could have known!! **Edited by user 27 May 2018 13:20:11(UTC)
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It probably wouldn't be too hard to make the unique parts, given a lathe and a pillar drill.
In fact you could probably have some of them made with a CNC mill or a laser cutter. If you weren't bothered about the side railings being metal you could have them 3D printed. Once you have the files to feed to your mill or cutter then you could assemble kits and sell them to anyone else looking to build their own, although I bet those railings would also be popular with people building their own Metall models.
Buying the rest of it would be seriously expensive though, even if you took the obvious approach of buying up odd lots of heavily used Metall parts and repainting the ones you plan to use. I've assembled a few classic Lego Technic sets that way and you always end up spending more on the last few parts than you did on the "1kg lot of old Lego" that provided most of it! |
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I think I need to go to Eslöv... |
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