Hello everybody,

for all, who have not yet seen this topic at Märklin's website:

https://www.maerklin.de/de/lp/2018/jvl/

and the hunting people

http://www.lok-jaeger.de/

https://de-de.facebook.c...JaegerDerVersunkenenLok/

https://www.eisenbahn-ku...d-aus-dem-rhein-geborgen

just for information. This loco is sunken brand new during a storm into the Rhine. Now after 165 years it shall be recovered next Month, October 2018.

There Märklin is involved in the recovery of this before 165 years sunken loco, it may be possible this steamer loco may occur as a new Märklin model in the near future.

Regards

TEEWolf


P.S.: Description from the German television

https://programm.ard.de/.../?sendung=28113602712198

Railway romance extra hunter of the sunken locomotive (Part 1) - When "The Rhine" fell into the Rhine | SWR television BW


106 years ago the Titanic crashed and sank in the Atlantic Ocean. Exactly 60 years and two months earlier, on 14 February 1852, a brand-new locomotive from the Keßler engineering works in Karlsruhe fell from the ship when it was delivered and sank in the Rhine near Germersheim. To this day, no one has seen her.

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The first part of the altogether four-part "extra series" of the railway romanticism for the treasure hunt for this oldest still existing German steam locomotive tells the story of this legendary locomotive with the fateful name "The Rhine". From the construction in Karlsruhe to the loading, the transport and the accident up to the attempts to pull the 20 tons heavy locomotive out of the water again. Despite the efforts of 400 strong men and the first divers, who had to travel from England, all efforts to rescue them from the floods of the Rhine were in vain. Even today, 166 years later, the technical masterpiece from the early years of railway history lies in its cold, wet grave.

In the following three parts the long treasure hunt for the lost locomotive is described, the history of the traditional locomotive construction in the southwest is told and in the fourth part we accompany the preparations for a possible recovery of the oldest still existing German locomotive.

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As far as I understand the articles and looking at the pictures, its name was "Der Rhein" (also: "The Rhine").

Still must be Lorelei that caused the "Rhein" accident...

Maybe... but she has let us slip past twice without accident !






Regards,

PJ

Hello Wolfgang,

Yes I had a good Blonde on board, my wonderful wife !! :





As you say, view from train in tunnel is limited, as you can see, they cannot see us now :





We have traveled by train along the Rhein a few times though and it is very picturesque, but I do find images taken through the window of a moving train quite unsatisfactory.












Regards,

PJ

this must be a huge blow, what they are trying to do now is to find out what the magnetic sensory abnormality was, to start searching in that spot and being sure they've found the loco, the work they undertook has taken them 9 meters down and an area of 450m² and found nothing.

John