 Joined: 15/12/2015(UTC) Posts: 523 Location: Maryland, Baltimore
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I been recently looking at several Primex items on "Fleabay"  and noticed that the prices are all over the place. I not talking about the rarer items, just the normal Beck's Beer reefer which are very common. I see prices from less that $10 to some to $50 or more. I guess you really need to shop around.   Anyway, while researching some items in the Primex Catalogs, I noticed two things I thought were rather odd. In the 1988 catalog, the Orient Express set is featured on the cover, yet there is no more mention of the rather top of the line set (for Primex) until the back cover. I would have thought that it would have been listed somewhere on the inside pages. The other item I notice was that on the cover of the 90/91 catalog it shows item 3190 which is their version of the classic Marklin 3000 Class 80 Loco. Nothing strange about that other than the fact it is smoking. You can clearly see that the smoke stack has been removed and a suitable Suethe unit installed in its place. Talk about "truth in advertising". Anyone else ever notice any "oddites" in their catalogs, Primex, Marklin or otherwise? Let's hear them
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 Joined: 14/03/2005(UTC) Posts: 15,870 Location: Gibraltar, Europe
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One oddity that I have picked up on in the past is the appearance on photos in catalogues of locomotives and stock that are not in that particular catalogue.
In one catalogue that is from the 1980s there is a photo which clearly shows a Br01. I had to go back quite a few catalogues from previous years before I found the 3048! |
Ray
Mostly Marklin.Selection of different eras and European railways
Small C track layout, control by MS2, 100+ trains but run 4-5 at a time.
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 Joined: 14/01/2006(UTC) Posts: 1,802 Location: Wurttemberg
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Hi, I know more, but I like these three most. Do you see the proud boy who built the fire-ladder? He followed the instruction in the manual exactly. And what happened? He cannot lift the ladder like everybody who followed the instructions. The model does not work. But he knows a trick: Just put a red plate under the ladder to prevent it from falling back. I'm sure the photographer wanted to take that plate away for the published version. But it was forgotten . Märklin 1971, p72.  This next one comes from the shop window display catalogue 1970. What will happen when the train will take the line under the bridge? Will it kill the funnel or the bridge?  We had this before, some years ago, as a quiz. What's wrong? The two-axle car comes from BING, Märklins biggest competitor in the 1920s. (1975, p 45)  Regards Markus
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Joined: 15/10/2006(UTC) Posts: 2,319 Location: Washington, Pacific Northwest
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FYI Markus, using dropbox for the images means some of us cannot see them - when we sit behind corportate firewalls, as the company block all access to such sites to ensure on critical data is leaked out by employees. Image sharing sites like imgur work more reliably, as one cannot upload documents the them thus they are allowed through firewalls. So I don't see any of the above 3 photos. |
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Joined: 14/01/2006(UTC) Posts: 1,802 Location: Wurttemberg
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Hi Minok,
Thank you for the hint. I changed the hosting.
Regards
Markus
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Joined: 15/10/2006(UTC) Posts: 2,319 Location: Washington, Pacific Northwest
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Awesome.. That works great! I now see the pictures. |
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 Joined: 23/07/2014(UTC) Posts: 8,475 Location: ENGLAND, Didcot
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Originally Posted by: Markus Schild  Hi, We had this before, some years ago, as a quiz. What's wrong? The two-axle car comes from BING, Märklins biggest competitor in the 1920s. (1975, p 45) Regards Markus And here is me thinking the error is that that the S3/6 doesn't have a tender, I wonder where it carries its coal and water for the journey ... 
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Joined: 14/01/2006(UTC) Posts: 1,802 Location: Wurttemberg
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Hi, I just came across another one: It is always bad when a model falls down before the photo is taken. It is worse when nobody is around who can repair it. Look at the 4243, especially at the couplers (Norway 1987):  Regards Markus
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Trix 22248 was a 2015 new item of BR 24. Find the photo here: https://www.trix.de/prod...pdb_pi1%5Bsearchres%5D=1The steering is not correctly assembled. Nobody was there to fix it (loose one screw to do it), nobody thought of showing the other side of the loco (or was that side even worse?). And it didn't get better: a few days later the loco was shown at Nuremberg, showing the same side with the same problem. |
Regards Tom --- "In all of the gauges, we particularly emphasize a high level of quality, the best possible fidelity to the prototype, and absolute precision. You will see that in all of our products." (from Märklin New Items Brochure 2015, page 1) ROFLBTCUTS  |
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Joined: 14/01/2006(UTC) Posts: 1,802 Location: Wurttemberg
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Hi, Märklin - catalogues are always a good source for prototypical train - arrangements... .   1971 prospectus. Regards Markus
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