Hello,

Some pictures from Germany.
Probably Marklineum.
https://www.stummiforum....g-Insider-Modelle-5.html






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Not interested myself, but do like they are modernizing the BR 01 line and moving through it... I'm waiting for a modern updated BR 012 with the oil tender some point down the road.

To be sure...same sound files like other BR 01.

Good day to all,

Some new pictures released by Märklin.
Working hard on the prototypes and their trials …






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Just a heads up but the Insider 01.10 has begun delivery, users over at Stummi forum have reported on it:
https://www.stummiforum....eliefert.html#msg2574665

Has anyone here received theirs yet?

Hello
Received mine a couple of days ago, so far no problems
Nice model, good sounds, dynamic smoke works well.
Stummi page did not load for me, so i could not see the reports
Regards

Hello Tom,

I was having a discussion the other day with a guy who is knowledgeable about working steam locomotive in New South Wales.
I was referring to a video taken a few weeks ago of double headed locomotives of different classes (both 2 cylinder), and noticed two very different exhaust sounds.
He says that the different sounds primarily are the result of having different valve gear, one was Stephensons link motion, and the other with Southern (probably) valve gear.
Of course other working settings such as position of reversing gear, and other design features such as design of blast pipe and smoke box will also create different sounds.

So it is always a bonus for modellers if an authentic sound can be used by a manufacturer.
Mind you I am rather cynical when it comes to believing the sounds from a HO scale model are anything more than only a hint of what really happens.

Kimball

The 42529 wagon set has also been delivered now.

You can see pictures etc. over at Stummi:

https://www.stummiforum....-Insider.html#msg2608965

I can post some when my set arrives in a few weeks.

Probably to keep the price down.......

And this way the users can choose what they want:
1. they can keep it the way it is
2. they can install an mld3/msd3 or any other decoder they want, provided there is space for it. (the mld3/msd3 can be configured to act as function decoders only, using motor wires as extra aux outputs)
3. or control it from a locomotive that has that function, just remove the slider and wire up the "front" coupler in the baggage car and install a current conducting coupler.
(I noticed that the "front" coupler on the 42529 baggage car has the "brass" plate and the contact for the coupler shaft installed, but it's not wired up)