My order has been sent to my Märklin dealer!

Here it is:

https://www.maerklin.de/en/lp/2025/rock-n-roll-train-x-acdc




Looks great !

The cars with the bell and the one with the guns are magnificent !

But this year I don't have enough money to buy a KLVM for my layout...

Best Regards
Joël

I think Preiser should step up with a figure of Cerberus...On The Highway...so to speak

I think this is a ton of fun. Not for me, but a ton of fun.

However, if the "special sound functions" in the decoder table are not AC/DC songs, that would be a huge fail on Marklin's part

I am moderately scared that they harmed the Class A3 tooling to make that. Here's hoping it's a mix of unharmed reuse and new tooling; and the chance of future liveries of Scottie (or even other A3's or A1's) remains intact. If they did modify the tooling, then I hate it on principle. We need more British H0! :D

Outside of that, I honestly have mixed feelings. I think rather than the Steampunk Hornby, a better comparison is the Beatles Hornby - where they took their cheapest, oldest, lowest quality budget toy trains (without DCC sockets, without NEM couplings, etc); put very low quality decals of the Beatles on them, and tried to charge "mid-tier HST train set" pricing for it. Which is also true of the Steampunk Hornby, of course.

These are all way more expensive, but have at least some meaningful connection to the band (the closest connection between the Beatles and trains was the narration of Thomas the Tank Engine) and are actually modelled specifically for the run rather than just being a borderline scam reselling old trash - which is the kindest description of Hornby Beatles I can give. As freelance models - I'd actually be tempted by the cannon and bell wagons if they were free from the AC:DC branding; they'd make interesting oddities to have running in a freight rake down a small branch line to a temporary halt by a church or a folly. So it's all positive on that front. My only real gripe with it is just that I'm finding the whole "brand X but it's model trains" trend kinda weird. Shout out to the coke bottle Lowmac there, too.

Not gonna lie though, I must not cast stones from my glass house, because I'd be one of the first people celebrating reproductions of things like the Hunger Games trains;




Or a Half Life Razor train, or a H0 Ivor the Engine, or ...oh dear, there's a OO Ivor coming out this year, and since it's a fictional loco there's no exact "scale" for it to be out of...

New reason to dislike the Black Ice: it just cost me 250 quid at Rapido.

So I get the prices on the wagons.
What is the price of the locomotive please?

Kimball

Kimball,

and the horns light up digitally (apparently).

Hopefully the sound includes a few "Angus Riffs"!!!

Whisper Mode On In "Full Confession Mode" - The Jimmy Pendulum has swung in an eccentric mode - Sinatra, Martin, Davis, et al. (What do you mean I can't go to Vegas? I'm 15!" ) - then I went to college in New Jersey in the early 1970s, right when KISS blew on to the scene, followed closely by AC/DC (How wonderfully MäTrix ), and just a wee bit of Ozzy. Yet...I still like the Rat Pack...go figure! And the only concerts I have attended were 1 Edgar Winter Group and 1 Maynard Ferguson (back in the 70s) (then marriage, kids, Mr Rogers, and Thomas the Tank Engine ) Whisper Mode Off

KISS broke AC/DC in the US by getting them to open for them in 1976/77. There's an interview with Bon Scott somewhere, where he talks about it.
Edgar Winter Group = "niche" - Maynard Ferguson = "who?".

In the remoteness of Sydney, KISS was the first concert I went to. Others in order: Robert Plant; Police; Sting; U2; Queen; Queen (yes twice on the Works tour) U2; U2; U2. Joe Jackson was in there somewhere.

I'm still finding an AC/DC train a bit weird, no doubt there will be an AC/DC Vespa and it might sell as well as this one.

Hi
Not my bag. I’m not much into fantasy trains.

M would have been better launching some coaches for their current A3s rather than creating this.

Mike

*cough* K-Type Pullmans *cough*

I am a compatriot and fond of AC/DC, Just look at the iconic 1976 music video :



But I agree about the train, it’s a bit weird


PJ

I was more of a Van Halen fan, but don't own any of either bands vynil or CD's.

Figures to go with! Yes!

It may be just me, but in looking at the Scotsman and AC/DC loks, there are a few similarities, but I rather doubt they are using the full Scotsman tool (double stack, single tear-shaped dome, walk plate below the name arch, tender is more detailed, buffers present, headlamps on buffer beam) for AC/DC (single American style stack, 2 domes, walk plate above name arch, less detail on tender, buffers absent, American "cow catcher/filleter", headlamp center on front ash door) My random observations, may or may not be all there , like me... I have been incorrect before

You also have the Jethro Tull and Locomotive Breath. The German group Bonfire made a "recent" cover of it, ref:

in the video, they have the prototype for the Märklin 37000.001, SVG BR 212 311 (SVG or Stauden Verkehrs Gmbh is a private rail company)

Hi,

I was at Intermodellbau in Dortmund last thursday and saw the presentation of the train. Nice, but not my cup of tea.

Peder

Less weird isn't possible. The flatcar loads should have been bluetoothed microspeakers and a bank of leds for a mobile lightshow.
I wonder if the cannons use smokeoil (or snakeoil)?

I have pass as I am not a fan of AC/DC.

Westlife and Elvis was my favourites.

Whsiper Mode On

We could even incorporate Noch 66823



Whisper Mode Off

Switch a couple figures...

Also requires an ac to DC bridge rectifier 🧲🤣

That's a no, but you aren't alone in the misunderstanding!

I'm glad they sold through them even if it's not my taste, since it's a nice rebuke to Hornby.

W.w.J.d.? Love our neighbors regardless. Regards.If you're familiar with the TV series The West Wing with Martin Sheen, one episode in particular comes to mind.

I have several "AC/DC" locomotives (Old locomotives with the original field coil motor and the AC/DC decoder 60906 .)