I'd say a E10.12 in corresponding colors or even a V200.

Have a look at these links please (even they are in German, but a lot of numbers and pictures)

http://www.rheinmodellba...nd-co/rheingold-1962.php

http://www.welt-der-mode...com/f-zug-rheingold.html

http://www.mist-4.de/arc...1-vortrag-zugbildung.pdf

http://www.heinrich-hank...enbahn/zugbildung/_d.htm

http://www.handarbeitsmodelle.de/10932/116052.html

https://www.drehscheibe-...ren/read.php?017,4715331

http://www.bundesbahnzeit.de/seite.php?id=369

If you need more links, please let me know.

Finallly a video for your pleasure. This train is still used today for special trips. I saw the train at the last Mätklin IMA days in Göppingen.



For the period your model is from it was the E 10.12

Märklin offered last year the Rheingold Tin Plate

https://www.maerklin.de/...te/details/article/40850

with the E 10.12 as the loco. I got that complete train.

https://www.maerklin.de/...te/details/article/30390

Thanks Mike. Great info now I am really excited as I have the 43857 coach set and the Locos. Now to secure the 26604 set.

Regards
Adrian

Hello Adrian,

well I thought you should have some "pleasure-information" too, not only technical ones. This was my intention e.g. for the video.

But if you find anything about it a V 200 was pulling the Rheingold in that version in that period you got it (beige blue with the dome car), I will appreciate to hear from you. Because I doubt it that this ever happend. Also I found no source prooving this.

regards

TEEWolf

P.S.: I bought last year the Rheingold Tin Plate (40850) including the "coorect" loco E 10.12 (30390) and it is really a very nice train I like. Also Märklin offered only burning red ending lights and no interior lightning of all coaches.

The Rheingold segment with the ADumh and WRumh (from Geneva) would never have been pulled by a V200, as those coaches went to Dortmund. The Rheinpfeil ADumh and WRumh did make the run into Holland and would have been pulled by a V200 as described by Heinrich Hanke on his website. I believe that that segment would have included one coach from the Rheingold (Avumh) along with the coaches from Munich (Rheinpfeil).

1963: http://www.heinrich-hank...ildung/e3b_rheingold.htm
V200 Duisburg-Emmerich

1965: http://www.heinrich-hank...dung/1965_tee_00009s.htm
V200 Duisburg-Emmerich

1970: http://www.heinrich-hank...bildung/e4_rheingold.htm
Duisburg-Emmerich now electrified

Rheinpfeil 1970: http://www.heinrich-hank...ildung/e4_rheinpfeil.htm

I included the 1970 information because the train was still pulled by a green Re 4/4I in Switzerland. By that point, the coaches had all been repainted in the TEE red/beige livery. The matching Re 4/4I locomotive in TEE colours was introduced in 1972.

Regards

Mike C

Here's a silly question. After Duisburg, the Stammzug of the Rheingold continued to Dortmund. Only one car from the original consist continued to Holland with coaches from the Rheinpfeil.
Was the Holland section called the Rheingold or the Rheinpfeil (or both) and what about the Dortmund section?

It got even more complicated later on, when one of the coaches was detached in Basel (southbound) and was joined to the TEE Roland to Chiasso and Milano.
Prior to the introduction of the Roland, the Chiasso coach and the coach that went Basel-Zuerich-Chur normally travelled as part of regular SBB trains, which did not add any more named trains to the mix.

It is too bad that Maerklin never released the fourth coach that should have come with the 42990 Rheingold Set. I added the Apumz from the 42991 to complete the 4 coach consist from Basel to Zurich.
A second 42991 allowed me to complete a 4 coach "Helvetia" set, leaving me with a spare bar car.

Regards

Mike C