Thanks a lot!

Thanks for the visit and stay tuned!

Glad you enjoyed it!

The microphone in my camera doesn't do the "Lärm" any justice, it is too whitenoisy in the video, but not too far... Thanks for the visit!

that's very kind, thanks!

collecting is a disease 😉

That's very kind, thanks!

Glad you enjoyed it!

Thanks for the explanation.

This is a very interesting explanation, which I am hearing for the first time. I am struggling with it to be honest. It doesn't sound like Märklin to use a material classed as non-paintable (and more expensive than the stuff they were using for other models concurrently) for the wrong purpose, to then carry on doing it for 10 years on 6 versions of the same model... But I wasn't at the factory at the time... I'd love to find out more though, would you be able to point us to the source of this anecdote? But thanks for sharing and your visit today.

From what I can tell 3053 and 3054 were one of the first attempts to make a plastic body rather than cast alloy. At the time delrin was newly available and being used for many applications as it hard wearing and has good dimensional stability. The problem with paint detaching would not have shown up for a few years. I think they switched to something else by the time of 3357 at least so they realised their mistake.

@The3rdRail and @johnbuttery1171 I have a later airport express set that I purchased used with this paint failure (the cars were fine)....I'm going to inspect it and see what I see. I'm really curious about this.

We'll have to agree to disagree on this one. There were already quite a few models made of plastic and painted back then: 3001 (1953), 3016 (1955), 3064 (1963), 3070 - TEE Ram (1965), 3072 (1966), so it is not as if they didn't know how to handle plastic when the time came to release the 3053 in 1966. The 3054 came out in 1971. I was given a brand new 3054 in 1981, and after 2 weeks it was already showing paint problems, II think this might have more to do with the formulation of the paint for certain colors: for example, silver on roofs (ie Railbus - 3016 or V60 - 3065), pinstripes or running numbers also flakes off very easily, whether the model is made of metal or plastic. Or it could be that they could not get the right shade of beige using primers, so simply applied the colors to the plastic... Anyway, it is hardly a life or death matter... 😀

I think so, they are the ones you could buy in the 1980s

you only live once...😀

Thanks Linda. Glad you found some inspiration, have a good weekend!

Thanks for watching

Thanks, Michelines are a nice collection theme, there were quite a few versions in EST, SNCB, FS etc liveries. The 2701 loco is a brown P8 (=3098 tooling) I think, nice too, who doesn't like a P8? 😀 Thanks for the visit! Have a good weekend.

Merci Stéphane. Quelques minutes loin du sport et de la politique 😉 Bon weekend.

Almost! I had since learnt it is in fact called a "light diffuser" 😉 thanks for the visit and input Frank. Best from a very hot London!

@@The3rdRail Hello again, I like your videos although I have digitalized all my models during the last two years. But nevertheless I love these old models. I buy them as an analogue version and change them later on. I love to watch these old trains combined with modern technology. My tinplate coaches I haven't used them for years, but now they are back again on my layout. Some of them got an interior decoration and I started to install interior lighting by using LED stripes and capacitors in order to avoid flickering lights. If you are interested, feel free and watch some of my videos although they are in German. Best regards Frank from Frank's Modellbahn

@@franksmodellbahn4171 everything that gets an old model back on the track is good as far as I am concerned. I watch your channel regularly, und mit der richtigen Einstellung ist Deutsch für mich nicht zu Umständlich 😉

@@The3rdRail Thank you 😃 That's nice to hear. By the way I subscribed to your channel and I enjoy your videos very much. Best regards Frank

Glad you like the videos, Thanks for the renewed visit! Enjoy your locos!

glad it was helpful... You can see how they are used in a blok system in the layout 2021 videos on the channel.

Thanks for the visit! Cheers

Just sharing what I am doing... Glad you enjoyed it.

I am sure this will happen at some point, I want to get the 2602, but it is prone to reaching a price pushing it out of reach... Just a question of when...

Catalogue 69/70 I think

that's too kind, many thanks!

🙏

It sure is!

thanks for sharing 🙏

😀

Care is the main ingredient

@@The3rdRail YES on these good Pruducts the time is OK for that! i m just looking your green P8 towing the green Donnderbüchsen with 4115 at the end. well do you think i can also go on the end of my Passenger Train?

Glad it helped!

@@The3rdRail Did you the video about heating the plastic Warp back in shape ?

@@fernlenker no, I haven't done anything on that front.

@@The3rdRail im searchng to get track magic here in germany, that whast your choice for the wheels? the "wax" did not isolate against current?

@@fernlenkerTrack Magic is more a UK thing. Any track cleaner will do the same job or SR24. You can even use a drop of smoke fluid... Most of it is pretty much the same stuff: paraffin... And it won't hurt the conductivity.

everybody needs one 😉

@@The3rdRail YES i build up my yellow DHG 500 where so many things where right out from märklin where missing... just the Geländer needed to mount on. had no idea to get done it? the Puffer had to be remouved?

no problem, happy counting...

check the video linked in the description... Eveyrhting you are looking for is there 😉

@@The3rdRail YES the wohle video is great ! i have E-Lok 3163 Nr 1602, 4116, 4120 AND the 4115 too, wil it be for your eyes OK to kupple all together? Thank you so much for yout time, unpacking and restoring but much more for what you know about all those Tings! greetings Stefan

Yep, everything adds up pretty quickly... After the video, I discovered that the hoppers had managed to escape my routine... 20 cars, 4 axles and... 160 wheels, a majority of which had developped nice dirt tires☹️ That wasn't fun... It took a few days... But it was a way to escape the sports and politics flooding the airwaves at the moment 😀 Thanks for the visit!

@@The3rdRail I was thinking to make/find a 10cm x 50cm bathtub, put 3 x 5106 tracks together on the buttom and fill it up with 1-2 cm SR24. And then give all the waggons a quick manual run, back and forth a few times. BR, Anders

You can also put a paper towel or a cloth on a section of track, add a few drops of track cleaner on it, and roll your cars back and forth over it... This will remove quite a bit of dirt, but you'll still need some elbow grease for the finishing touches... That all depends on how thorough you want the job to be of course...

@@The3rdRail thanks, a few options to consider. Will have to the assess the appropriate time/benefit of this. Agreed, need something to escape reality these times! BR, Anders

Simple! One in front of the other 😉 Weakest loco at the front, running "backwards" so the pickup shoes of both locos are close to each other. This normally allows the second loco to push the first one until its pickup shoe reaches the braking section and both locos stop. Doesn't work with everything, trial and error required. That's about it...

that's a way to do it...

Thannks for sharing! Have a good weekend...

Thanks!

Thanks doe sharing and for the visit! Enjoy the hot weather!

Thank you 👍 Schoenes Wochenende!

thanks for the visit!

Try and enjoy it😉

You are probably referring to the wheel spacing of other manufacturers, usually DC wheelsets. Märklin wheels don't need touching, unless someone has touched them of course... I never came accross a marklin AC wheelset I had to adjust , but will bear in mind. Thanks for the visit...

@@The3rdRail Not at all and that's the strange thing: I don't own any DC wheelsets or rolling stock from other manufacturers (at least not the ones I run on my analogue M-Track). The latest ones I had to correct were a set of ÖBB Schlierenwagen (4034).

That is very strange indeed... Are you sure they have not been fitted with DC axles maybe? Or it could be someone dumped a large collection on the market, from someone who routinely tinkered with adjustments... I have never had the problem on any of the 700 wagons I have in the collection, or even with locomotives which can have different spacing depending on the vintage (13.8mm to 14.3mm). But it is something I will bear in mind if something I buy misbehaves... Welcome to the twilight zone! 😵‍💫 😀

@@The3rdRail I'm pretty sure that on your layout you would not notice any of the problems I've encountered with slightly different or too wide or narrow wheel spacing. My analogue layout is very small and portable at 180x85cm, features 5120-radii, two levels, catenary everywhere and steep ascents leading over curved switches into the main station. All done with M-Track and I don't mind running 24cm cars on it. :)

thanks a lot!🤗

good luck! Thanks for the visit!

mission accomplished!

Glad it was helpful!

I don't have enough platform cars to do a decent job, so not at the moment... 😪

@@The3rdRail wasn't there a Set from märklin "Hindeburg Damm" ? for my train i needed four axle Platform Cars, did not find them from märklin ( i have a video with BR 218 but just one BR 218 there where only an expensive new one, in real they use two ) so i took now some from Fleischmann

I don't know...

No idea, perhaps the new color is more realistic? Unlike other people, I like to link to other channels instead of copying what they have done and pretending I have invented something...

I like to surprise people 😉