A Blast from the Past
My First Maerklin Train Set

The holidays sometimes give us the opportunity to dig a bit into the past by looking into some old photo albums. In doing so I got reminded of my good old Maerklin trains that I had when I was a little kid.On my trip down memory lane and dug out those old pictures and came even up with some pre-Maerklin documents.

Doesn’t seem that long ago and now I have my successor already older than I was in these pictures. I guess I will have to equip him with some trains of his own. What would be even better - Hello Universe, this is a request! - if I would manage to get my old trains back over here from a friend - Hello Hermann - who has kept them faithfully for so many years but whom I don’t seem to be able to reach any more. But maybe this year he will answer our Christmas mail - just maybe.

First the pre-Maerklin era…

And then the Maerklin era…

And then the final state, or nearly so - the year after that a station was added, but I don’t have any pictures of that…

Posted by Merlin Silk - December 22nd, 2007

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Frank Ronneburg on May 17, 2008 11:25 pm
Hello,

great article & nice pictures from your vintage layout.

Can i get a copy of this pictures for my website tischbahn.de? I would like to translate your text and add it to my site under “Tischbahnen von Lesern” (Layouts of readers).

Thank you,

Frank
Merlin on May 18, 2008 8:46 pm
Hello Frank,

but CERTAINLY!
You have one hell of a nice web site there at http://www.tischbahn.de - and fortunately I can read all that.

Give me a link back if you like, but not really required

Cheers,
Merlin