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 I 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.

The following images first show the pre-Maerklin era, then the early Maerklin and the nearly complete set. I am missing the last phase of the Maerklin era though. After the last image a train station had been added, but I only have the pictures of that in my mind and no mean (yet) to get it out on the internet.

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  • http://tischbahn.de Frank Ronneburg

    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

  • http://www.MerlinSilk.com Merlin

    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

  • Merlin

    Hi Merlin,

    Yeah, that’s a very nice layout! Great! I’m a collector and “Spielbahner” of the Märklin 30ies items. Do you have pics of the actual state?

    For enthusiasts of the old train-modelling ther gives a very good bulletin board:

    alte-modellbahnen.foren-city.de

    If you want, look in!

    Greets!

    Merlin

  • http://www.MerlinSilk.com Merlin

    Hi Merlin,

    cool, tolles forum!
    Unfortunately there is no current state that might be interesting. It’s all in boxes still with a friend in Germany. But the contact has been re-established last year so there is a chance that this will all come back to me at one point.

    Cheers,
    Merlin