Love watching these videos, brilliant locomotive as well, thank you for sharing.🚂
@The3rdRail14 күн бұрын
Glad you enjoyed it
@lindaoffenbach6 ай бұрын
Wow, yes, the Borsig BR 53. Märklin's most majestic loco. Never seen in real but we can enjoy it as a model. Such a pity, or rather sad online sellers doing these kind of things, claiming new while it isn't at all... Nonetheless, quite the project for this one with some great tips, especially about removing rust and what damage the styrofoam can do over time. Very didactic again. Thank you so much again. Cheerio.
@The3rdRail6 ай бұрын
Good thing it was never built... Also a good thing for the seller that I don't name and shame either 😀 Thanks for the visit, glad you found the video useful.
@donaldanderson49376 ай бұрын
An impressive locomotive. Having seen the CC50 Mallet locomotives at Cibatu Indonesia in 1980, I couldn't resist buying my 3102 loco at Frankfurt Airport Duty Free shop in 1981! Another very useful video - thank you.
@The3rdRail6 ай бұрын
Many thanks! Glad you found the video useful.
@2mes2mains5 ай бұрын
Great work to refresh this wonderful model ! a pleasure to see it running as new then, Thank you for sharing !
@The3rdRail5 ай бұрын
Glad you enjoyed it
@Romin.7776 ай бұрын
Not everything in a collection has to be in showroom condition. That loco would be good enough for me. Heck in real life german steamlocos had chalk, coal deposits and rust on them. ;)
@The3rdRail6 ай бұрын
it is growing on me 😉
@Romin.7776 ай бұрын
@@The3rdRail :))
@CM-he8ni5 ай бұрын
Informative and pleasing as always. Never tire of long trains in action 😊
@The3rdRail5 ай бұрын
Many thanks!
@ducthman473714 күн бұрын
Maybe the average salary today is higher than it was in 79 but it buys a lot less. A train like this new today is less affordable than it was in 79.
@The3rdRail14 күн бұрын
I hear you but a train like this doesn't exist today, it was still made for a child's hand. Today you would be buying a highly detailed model packed with features made for 50+ year-old children 😉 This is by definition more expensive. They are not the same products and cannot be compared.
@kearney33202 ай бұрын
I considered buying a USA GG-1, but it’s 28 cm! Instead I bought a Dutch class 1200 model (21 cm) because it reminded me of the USA EP-5.
@The3rdRail2 ай бұрын
The 1200 is a nice locomotive.You might find it on the channel in a few places 😉. Thanks for the Super, much appreciated 🙏!
@Kapparie5 ай бұрын
Another nice video I enjoyed watching. 🙂 Great cleaning, I do more or less use the same methods to clean. Though I would have never applied oil on body of the loco, not saying it is wrong. It worked out very nice. You have expanded your collection with another fine model.
@The3rdRail5 ай бұрын
Thanks a lot!
@tinplatefan63035 ай бұрын
Vielen Dank, super erklärt, Grüsse aus Deutschland
@The3rdRail5 ай бұрын
many thanks!
@olafjentzsch67596 ай бұрын
Thank you for an awesome video. You are very knowledgeable on Marklin trains. Always a pleasure watching your videos.🚂🚂
@The3rdRail6 ай бұрын
Thank you very much!
@patrickmurphy67756 ай бұрын
One of my favorite engines!
@The3rdRail6 ай бұрын
they are good fun
@steamerjon6 ай бұрын
I call it the "Märklin tax" applied by some eBay sellers. The claims of being brand new are usually accompanied by a 10 day auction with a starting price £200 above what it's worth, and a couple of paragraphs of AI generated claptrap about how Märklin are a top quality brand. This is how the Z gauge market feels anyway.
@The3rdRail6 ай бұрын
And after 50 lines telling how good the thing is, still put a disclaimer that the pictures form part of description 😀 The description for this one was simply a lie, but I had looked at the pictures and it wasn't too bad price wise, I'd say just about £10 to £15 too much for its condition. But I agree some sellers are simply delusional. But here the solution is simple: walk away... I rarely use ebay for that reason, too much hassle when something goes wrong...
@steamerjon6 ай бұрын
@@The3rdRail oh yes I similarly bought a Märklin mini club City Ban train set from eBay, described as immaculate and never removed from the box. This is why I foolishly bought it without seeing pictures of it out of the box. The set was in fact immaculate apart from the hidden side of the locomotive, which looked as though it had been dragged along the pavement and then given a few strokes with a hot soldiering iron. The seller offered me a £10 refund as the damage was "only cosmetic". Where do you recommend buying Märklin stuff as a UK resident?
@The3rdRail6 ай бұрын
I mostly use professional sellers in Europe, usually brick and mortar shops with a website (ie no eBay storefront). I don't have a particular reference to give as I don't like to get involved in recommendations unless it is for low value items. My expectations or tolerance level might not necessarily match someone else's and I would feel bad if I had contributed to a disaster...
@pwissink16 ай бұрын
I own the 37021. Beautiful loco. As far as I know, Borsig was building two of them. One loco with boiler and one only the frame work. Both destroyed by a bombardement. For the paint on the boiler: maybe you can polish it up a bit. Tamiya has excellent polish for that. For the windplate, maybe a replacement can be used?
@The3rdRail6 ай бұрын
I heard the story too, all very confused imho as the sources are not very credible though not impossible, but what matters is that the class never made it out of the factory, one way or another. The wind deflector can be simply be stripped and re sprayed with some matt or satin black, that works well on these locos usually. I'll look into the polish if I decide to take thing further at some point, thanks very much for the advice, much appreciated. Take care.
@fulviobabuder60996 ай бұрын
Molto bello il video 👍👍
@The3rdRail6 ай бұрын
🙏
@gordonholtshausen43836 ай бұрын
Great video as always thank you. I have 2 of these and will get them out for a run. A lovely loco, not one that I would call a mistake, a bit of TLC seems to have done the trick.
@The3rdRail6 ай бұрын
Glad you enjoyed it, you win some you lose some as they say...
@Trainsbigandsmall6 ай бұрын
very nice locomotive I have the 37020 myself
@The3rdRail6 ай бұрын
Thanks!
@chriswade74706 ай бұрын
I’ve just bought one of this class of Loco, A Digital version the 3701. I haven’t had the opportunity to test it yet.
@The3rdRail6 ай бұрын
Don't wait too long 😉 Thanks for the visit!
@roland39626 ай бұрын
Always enjoy watching your videos. Keep them coming. I have the 3602 model, wonderful model, however have the same smoke unit problem as your 3102. I gave up debugging ;-) Greetings from South Africa.
@The3rdRail6 ай бұрын
Thanks for popping by today, much appreciated.
@The3rdRail6 ай бұрын
I just tried 2 identical (brand new) smoke generators and they both work simultaneously, my guess was correct in the video, the 2 units I used there had different power requirements. These work fine on their own in other locos. something similar might be happening with your loco.
@roland39626 ай бұрын
Thank you for the feedback, it's most likely that my problem is similar. I installed some older smoking units which I had on hand, which also work fine on their own. I will order and install two brand new units, and who knows maybe the solution is as simple as that.
@jefferyfarrell6 ай бұрын
Random question for the day but I noticed when you installed the smoke generators one had a green tip (front I think) and the back may have been darker (red). I just replaced the smoke generator in my 3047 as it worked but only flat out and it was a green tip. A new 7226 today (red tip) and it works fine. My suspicion is that the red tip is the seuthe #10 and the green tip is the seuthe #11 which is made to run at digital voltages. They are exactly the same size and the only thing that I have found may be the colour of the tip gives them away. I would be interested to know if you find similar?
@The3rdRail6 ай бұрын
The colors changed over time. The green one in the video is very old (i think 40 year old), the other one is a one year old 7226. Both work fine when installed alone in other locomotives. I since installed 2 brand new, identical, Seuthe 10 which both work, My guess would be that the older one I tried first needed more power than than the newer one, the latest short I published (here: kzbin.info11PNupTokq4?feature=share ) shows the loco running with the new generators. But what you mentioned about units made for digital is definitely something to be aware of, and check if need be.
@jefferyfarrell6 ай бұрын
@@The3rdRail it's been hard to track down the colours but from what little I can find on the seuthe website the new green ones are for digital. My 3048 was red which I brought 30 years ago which was why I wondered what was installed in my 3047. Since it works at full power I might just stuff it in a chimney of a house and attach it to the lighting circuit. 😂
@The3rdRail6 ай бұрын
Yes, the new Seuthe 10/10E I bought have a reddish base, but the one year old Märklin 7226 has a white base 😵💫 Seuthe manufactures both so you can only rely on colors for Seuthe branded units (which you cannot distinguish by simply looking at them 😄)... The only test you can do is to hook them up to a driving transformer with crocrodile clips and progressively increase the voltage, analogue compatible units should start generating smoke at around the 80 mark in that setting. All good fun...
@jefferyfarrell5 ай бұрын
@@The3rdRail yeah my green tip was around 150 - 200 even after a clean. Doesn't matter so much now as I have a new generator and I can find a use for the old one. I should really finish my track wiring rather than playing with generators anyway. But good things take time. 😂
@raymondleggs55086 ай бұрын
interesting almost was locomotive, too bad no rich eisenbahn enthusiast has contemplated building a real one!