Heh …Saxon Railway that’s PIKO territory one would guess!

Not sure how much import this is but if you look up Royal Saxon Railway on Wikipedia you will see that it apparently was mostly narrow gauge. That might be relevant to the Marklin decision.

Hallo Dreileiter modelers,
Well , Märklin released one or two box cars part of the Epoch I set and Trix released marvel Saxon Class XVIII which is “ Pacyfik “similar to Bavarian S3/6
Eine Legende auf Schienen - Märklin / Trix [ FINE ART ] - 42222 , BR XVIII H ( Baureihe 18.0 ) K.S.St.EB Sachsen Ep.I for ~ AC alternating current, [ AC 3-wire digital + analog]
Class XVIII H the " Kleine Sachsenstolz " of the BR 18.0 Class of the K.Sächs.St.EB from Ep. I of the Royal Saxon State Railroad, for ~AC alternating current operation with fitted DCC decoder [ for Märklin digital operation ]
Very Rare Model finely detailed brass handcrafted model for connoisseurs, vitrine model- almost unused with booklet and certificate in original packaging and custom TRIX wooden box & outer box plus white Gloves, Ect.


Extract from the Trix brochure accompanying the above mentioned model :

The smallest radius curve of the track for this model to negotiate is 553.9 mm.
The effort that Trix put into the fine art models to develop really sophisticated models has its price, of course, and only allows a limited number of pieces to be produced, ie all models are basically only produced once and in limited editions.

Prototype:

Royal Saxon State Railroad 2'C'1 h3, built from 1917 on till 1920

Use:

Heavy express passenger trains.

TRIX Model version:

Era I [ actually until 1926 ] handcrafted model in brass, in green-paint of the Royal Saxon State Railways, with smoke chamber door that can be opened, with digital decoder in the tender, drive by bell-shaped armature motor with flywheel in the boiler, 3 axles driven by coupling rods, coupling according to NEM with mounting as a retrofit kit is included.
Length over buffers 255 mm AC version, Originally with DELTA module replaced by Märklin dealer with ESU V5 sound decoder.

Saxon Railway was out of three major players in Epoch I very independent and so much so that they resisted the overtaking by powerful KAPEV

Well, it is DR 19. No loco made it into the DB rooster AFAIK. And maybe that is one of the reasons why the big players like Märklin and Roco skipped it.

Not Saxon: I saw the former DR 12 010 in a museum earlier this year. An impressive 2-8-4 steamer.

From Wikipedia: They were the largest steam locomotives ever built in Austria and the most powerful express locomotives with the longest connecting rods that existed in Europe at that time. To date, they have the longest connecting rods in the world.

I would be tempted to get a current model of that class.

So yes, there are many interesting prototypes still waiting for modern models.

Yeah that seems like another really important train. I might be tempted by that also tbh. But OBB seems to have gotten a lot of their trains modeled(or at least their cars). What seemed odd was that the whole railway seemed like it was ignored when it was after Prussia and Bavaria the biggest state railway. But yeah everyone's right a lot of great early era trains aren't modeled and maybe that's just how it happened to work out. Another one is E61 for Baden, I really love the state railways early electric trains.

Anyhow your answer from before makes sense with not many Saxon trains making it too the DB. Many of the models I see of state railway trains are in DB livery. Before I wasn't looking at them as different but if their priority was making DB trains that'd explain why no former Saxon ones got made.

Hello Everyone,

I am new to this Forum but have been collecting for 25 years. I recently got my hands on a Trix Fine Art 42222 Royal Saxon rail engine AC. I am struggling to find matching passenger wagons from Saxony. Trying to stay authentic. I thought Piko would be my best bet but no luck thus far. I have plenty of DRG wagon sets but would really like to find something Saxon. If anyone has any suggestions I would really appreciate it.

Thanks
-Kevin

Hallo Dreileiters,
Hi Kevin,
You may also try to locate coaches from
Sachsen Modellbahn company or Kleinbahn in Austria!
Regards,
Märklineisenbahn

For 40 years there was an iron curtain through Germany and demand for three-rail products is low in some German regions.
They make "more of the same" for regions where they achieved good sales, leaving other regions for the competition.

Hi Kevin,

I have a German book published in 1986 which contains details of passenger cars.
It contains details of the Piko 53011 Saxony coach in which you are interested.

The book also has plans and a photo of an express car with a through corridor made in 1907 for the Königlich Sächsischen Staatseisenbahn (Kingdom of Saxony State Railway).
This is almost the same shape and size as cars made by Märklin to represent the Bavarian Railway system.
The following numbers (with link) will give you the idea:
41353
41358
41359
41369
41379
Whether the cars were a similar colour on the KSS is a good question.

KImball

Edited by user 08 October 2022 00:01:44(UTC)  | Reason: Not specified

Hallo Dreileiters,
Good evening I_love_Marklin_37538 ,
Märklin/Trix released Saxon Class XVIII few yers back as a special hand made brass model. Take a look at my post above - Superb model & I added Sound !
Regards,
Märklineisenbahn