Dear All

Does anyone know of an LED equivalent to Marklin 610040 bulb that can be installed in the existing 2 pin connector on the Marklin 37xxx range of locomotives. eg loco 37401 .
I have several of these type loco's with light bulbs and I want to convert them to white LED's. Or is there another method by removing the 2 pin connector and using something else?.

Thanks for your help.

Andy

Hello Andy,

What a timely post! As mentioned on an earlier post I pulled out some of my Märklin trains that have not seen the light of day for a very long time! Actually I never ran these btw!

I’m referring now to the MARKLIN 37243 set of two! They are a pair of beautiful NS Series 1100 Electric Locomotives. One with a blue locomotive body and yellow nose with number "1138" from the 1980’s and one with a gray locomotive body and yellow nose with number "1136" from the mid-1990s.

Whilst reading the instructions I decided to lube the locomotives as recommended. That’s when I noticed the shells were plastic.

While I took off the shell housing to lube the parts, that’s when I noticed the old fashioned light bulbs, old style indeed with MFX! These incandescent light bulbs which in my humble opinion work well too but I would like to replace them due to the potential melting of the shell. I melted a shell once on a different plastic shell locomotive while I left the lights on for a very long time!! I did not notice it until I smelled something funny in the air so to speak. By modernizing them with LED’s I will prevent this potential incident from ever happening again! Especially on these two beauties!

So like you I would like to convert these to LEDS also, sooner rather than later! Please let us know if you have any success with your endeavour at hand and I will keep a close look out for updates to this post. Regards.