Hello,

I would like to buy a coach part from Märklin.
It is the folding bellows, that allows passengers to negotiate between two coupled carriages.
They are also called gangways, or vestibules.
In most models this is made of plastic.
On the Märklin cars for eras II and III, these parts pull off to allow the coach to be dismantled.

I have searched the part extensively on the Märklin website and came up with nothing.
I searched using all the terms and for individual cars, and car sets.
An example is model #43231.
But all the search results show only wheels and couplers (if that!).

Does anyone know the part number please?
regards
Kimball

E490370 "Faltenbalg kurz" image: https://www.lokmuseum.de...Marklin_Faltenbalg_kurz#

Various German dealers are having E490370 "Faltenbalg kurz" in stock. When looking for exotic spare parts (being shipped abroad), the Italian eBay vendor "coccodrillo114" was sometimes the last resort for me. Currently he is listing +3,000 Märklin spare parts, and bingo, he is offering a E490370 "Faltenbalg kurz":

https://www.ebay.com/sch...p;_oac=1&_nkw=490370

Anyway, shipping costs from Europe to Australia are exorbitantly higher than the item price.

That coach is listing two different diaphragms, the other one is E490390. Both part numbers come in packs of four.

Hi Kimball,

I used Google Images to see a picture and details of #43231.

Then using Märklin's "Product Database" I entered the details HO, Era III, Passenger Car.
Then instead of going through each page of results I jumped a few pages at a time until I came to a page with similar passenger cars and Article numbers.
Click on Details and then Downloads of the passenger car.

Regards,
Bernard