I am too !

See Maerklin's website

https://www.maerklin.de/...te/details/article/58087

and others for the cars. There is an E 10.12 gauge 1 55010 recommended.

https://www.maerklin.de/...s/details/article/55010/

As you wrote, the problem might be the availability.

I got an equal train in H0 Tin-Plate.

https://www.maerklin.de/...s/details/article/30390/
https://www.maerklin.de/...s/details/article/40850/

I also have an E 10.1 37107 in kobaltblau. It has the colour kobaltblau for the cars too and this E 10.1 looks also very nice in front of my Tin-Plate train.

The major point, this E 10.1 55015is from Maerklin available in gauge 1.

In my opinion you may use a 103.1 55105 perhaps too.

OK 103.1 is Era IV already, but available at Maerklin too and the colours beige/red were used for the Rheingold too. I got such a train 43857 in H0 from Maerklin as well.

But steamers in front of the Rheingold? I do not remember. The V 200 was pulling the Rheingold for a short time too, while a part of the routing was not yet electrified.

Looks like a 216 Diesel pulled them at some stage



Marklin 55716 (BR218) is a suitable loco.

In looking for a 55716 BR218 (none on ebay) I found that Bimmelbahn (where I got my 55011 E10) has a 55010 E10.13 available.

https://www.bimmelbahn24...d-becasse-patiniert-ovp/

Teewolf & Bigdaddynz:

I miss-spoke in my original message. To many late nite posts!! I do not have the Rheingold cars in H O. I tried to buy that set (in tin plate many times, but never had the bucks) I was confused, still the Rheingold with the TEE colors and the E-101/3. Those cars, sets were/are I believe in tan over dark red. I can't think of the proper color right now. Thinking abut these cars, reminded me that I bought about 6 of those cars from Matschle, (Carsten Laag) in the early 1970's. I don't believe I ever put them on my layout. I don't believe they had ever been run. Since the 3054, I have acquired several of the E-103's?. I believe the latest was the 39150.

Thanks ever so much for setting me straight. Also thanks for giving me so many objections, as to what I can use as motive power. I would like to stick to Mother Marklin. I should really I will stick with
Marklin. .It wasn't that long that I had to stock pile parts, tires, shoes pantos, bulbs (what is a bulb, you ask) all according to my 1980 catalog.

I just remembered that I have a old BR 218-217 that is red (maroon) over cream (TEE colors?) that I had upgraded the decoder to MFX, a couple of years ago. Seemed like it took the better part of the year anyway. I have it on my dining table, quiete, but I can't find the paperwork. I had to look it up on my poor inventory records.

I think I an not leaning to the E 10.1 from marklin. I sure do like the E103 in I ga. or course I especially like the KROC. It still out of reach!

Thank you both for sharing some of your knowledge and wisdom with me. I have ever so much to consider and think about.

Best Regards, gene

PS: Thanks for the Piccies and the vendor reference. The picture is so recent. Amazing, and looks like a great consist. I can't follow the web site to well, but nice engines, really nice engines .
Do they respond to English inquiries?

With one BR 218 loco they tested the TEE colours also on commuter trains. In era IV that loco was not used for TEE trains, it just has the same colours.

Yes, Bimmelbahn respond to questions in English.

Nobody said that and I assume the red/blue Rheinpfeil set Märklin offered for H0 gauge is prototypical.
But for the cream/blue Rheingold coaches a loco with an E in the class designation is a better match than a loco without that E. And the E 10.12 locos in cream/blue were made for that train.
I normally wouldn't mix era IV TEE coaches with such a train, but when I'm short on rolling stock I sometimes mix different eras in a single train.

The Rheinpfeil dome cars were delivered in cream/red and they look different from the Rheingold dome cars. Many TEE coaches are newer types that never existed in the Rheingold livery.

From the never-wrong Dr.Google :

"In 1962, a completely new purpose built set of luxury coaches was manufactured for the Rheingold. These were blue/beige 26.4 meter coaches, open plan, compartment, humpback restaurant and dome car with bar, all of them 1st class only. These coaches became the standard for future DB, UIC and Eurofima coaches. The level of luxury was above that of the TEEs of the time, so that the TEE service was improved to mach that level and starting in 1965, the Rheingold (and its sister train, the Rheinpfeil) both were converted to TEEs and the coaches were repainted red/beige, like all other TEEs.

The intended locomotive for the 1962 Rheingold was the purpose built streamlined E10.12 with a higher top speed of 160 km/h. There were delays with the first engines, so a handful of regular box-shaped E10s were modified with the high speed bogies and painted in Rheingold colors to take care of the train until the regular E10.12 came online. V200 diesels pulled the train north of Cologne and later north of Duisburg to the Dutch border until those segments were also electrified. The E10.12 were redesignated 112 in 1969. From 1970 onwards the DB class 103 took over the Rheingold. Shortly thereafter, the dome cars disappeared as they were not certified for the 200 km/h top speed the 103 could do on certain segments and the unreliable humpback restaurant cars were replaced with regular new 27.5 meter restaurant cars familiar from TEE and InterCity service... "

That particular loco 218 105 was painted red/cream in 2010. Museum train or special excursion, but no regular TEE service.
218 217 had the TEE colours in era IV, but lost them in 2002.

As far as the Rheingold 62 and Rheinpfeil 63 coaches, the baggage was stored in the area underneath the dome of the panorama car.
Here is some info on the actual consist:

(1962): http://www.heinrich-hank...ildung/e3b_rheingold.htm

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

After 1970: http://www.heinrich-hank...ng/e4_rheingold.htm#1970

1962:
NS 1100 Amsterdam - Emmerich
V 200 Emmerich - Duisburg
E 10.1239-1244 Duisburg - Basel Juni 1962 - Januar 1963
E 10.1265-1270 Duisburg - Basel ab September 1962

1970:
NS 1100
DB 103, 112
SBB Re 4/4 I (10027-10050)
after 1972: Re 4/4I (TEE Lackierung)

You're a bit late to the party Mike, Tom made that point in post #7.

I think folks are starting to lose the intent of Gene's original post - he has been given some Gauge 1 Rheingold coaches and wants to know what to pull them with.

The most obvious choices are the E10.13, E10, BR103 and maybe a V200. Of those, the 55105 BR103 is still available new.

Any of those choices, assuming one can be found, will cost Gene 1500 to 2500 euros, not an insignificant cost and not H0 loco buying money.

My point in posting those pictures is to suggest what else might work. I don't care about authentic accuracy of locos with coaches, I don't care about whether a picture has UIC coaches or whether they are Rheingold coaches, or whether a loco is the correct one painted in TEE colours, I'm just trying to offer some suggestions as to what might work for Gene. This is a topic about suggesting a Gauge 1 loco for Gene, not about the pedantics of coach types or loco colours.

Gene says he has a BR38, BR78, the Christmas loco (not sure which one) and the BR218 in TEE colours. Of those, the BR218 would be the most suitable even though it never pulled the blue/cream Rheingold coaches. As the baggage car question has been answered, I won't say anything about that other than to post the relevant catalog pages from when these Rheingold coaches were available (2017/2018 Catalog and also 2018/2019 Catalog).

It's a very nice set.... I'd be tempted, but I already have two observation cars and two humproof dinning cars in the blue/cream Rheingold colours. I need 2 1st class coaches each in both in H0 and G1 scale.

I don't think they have Telex couplers, my 55011 E10 and 55013 E40 certainly don't. The 55010 was released at the same time.