Märklin in the Christmas season

With the class 515 battery railcar and class 815 control car (item no. 88251), a model in ocean blue and ivory colour is now also available for all customers. Technically, this train with DB lettering for era IV is identical to the premiere model we tested for Insider Club members and is also at the same high level in terms of paint and lettering. This is a one-off series for the MHI.

The Henschel steam snow blower with coal tender (87360) for era IV was also delivered. For the first time, it appears without an enclosed locomotive and bears DR (East) lettering. Customers can therefore choose which vehicle they want to push when using it on the layout or park it in the depot area during the summer break.

An SBB set for era VI (87663) has simply become a passenger coach set without any further information. The reference to EW IV type standard coaches has now been deleted from the product description. The background to this is likely to have been customer input to which Märklin has responded: The originally planned EW IV cars did not fit as well with the SBB models offered as large-capacity cars of other types. Two 2nd class coaches and one 1st class coach, together with the unchanged panorama coach, now form a Swiss Intercity in operating condition around 2019, for which Märklin already had a suitable locomotive in its programme with the 88594 model.

For the remaining fans of era II, the freight car set for sparkling wine transport (82553) went on sale. The two boxcars with brakeman's cabs of the Gl Dresden design are used by the Deutsche Reichsbahn-Gesellschaft and have advertising lettering for Kessler-Sekt-GmbH.

The class 186 (88487) electric locomotive from the TRAXX family can be categorised as Era VI. The model with four single-arm pantographs belongs to Railpool and is leased to Lineas. There are pictures of the prototype pulling the historic CIWL Orient Express - certainly an interesting alternative to the daily freight business on the layout.