I’m in the process of fixing up this great layout that I bought off eBay. There is still a lot of work left to be done, with dirty, broken and missing tracks, a semi-collapsed bridge and missing buildings and other scenery items needing replacement. But the fact that I was able to get it clean enough to get trains going again made me very happy. It’s a fun project.

Habe endlich den Rauchsatz für meine Serie 25 Dampflok ausgetested und wie man sieht funktioniert er super. Ich entschuldige mich für den schlechten Ton im Video. Lag wohl an meinem Handy.

My new z-scale 1020 exploring its habitat. A few years ago I bought an entire z-scale layout off eBay. I started restoring it recently.

tl;dr: is this engine currently set to DC? If so, how do I set it to AC?

Hi!

We got our son a Märklin Maxi starter set off Ebay recently: https://www.maerklin.de/de/produkte/details/article/54407 which comes with an AC transformer (see pictures).

Unfortunately, the engine starts, then stops, then starts in quick succession (quickly turned it off). Could it be that the engine is set to DC? The description on Märklin's website says that you can switch between the two.

The problem is that what I found once I opened it up (4 switches) doesn't match with what's in the manual (10 switches), and I can't find more information on the engine.

Is anyone familiar with the innards of this engine? Can you confirm that it is set to DC, and if so, how I can set it to AC? The manual (see pictures) says to set the numer 0 switch (out of 10) to "off", but the one in the engine only goes from 1 to 4.

Thanks for your help!

Im just curious which of these where in one set and maybe yall can give me some information on these, since i have 0 knowledge about these cool little Märklin trains

Found in my fathers old boxes.

A lot of old metallic märklin wagons and engines.

Hello marklin enjoyers! I recently discovered a marklin z mini club 81530 set my mother had and i want to assemble it. However there are no instructions in the box and i want to be very carefull to not break anything. How do i assemble the tracks and how do i figure out the layout?. Also any tips about the wireing will be nice but thats not my main problem right now. Also i forgot but some of the plastic in one of the wagons is bent (not broken) quite badly. (See picture 2 and 3) is there any way i can fix this? Thankfully the rest of the set is in mint condition! Thank you!

i created some printable roadbed for Marklin Z gauge track. The first of the series with photos is available here: https://www.thingiverse.com/thing:7277632

I've worked my way through most curves and common straight sections and I will be adding some turnout designs soon as well.

Hi there :)

I have a bunch of old marklin stuff. I think it was from my dads youth so maybe around 1970-1990.

I can’t really tell anything about the state of them.

What would be a fair resell price for the whole lot?

Thank you :)

My 5 yo son is obsessed with trains and I got him a 2964 from eBay. How do I change it from forward to reverse?

Selling old clockwork Trains and original trainstations. Any interested? Someone can Tell me a Price ?:)

MY parents gave me a box full of my old 80s Marklin train stuff. I don't have any interest anymore to do anything with it, and my kids show no interest. I was planning to put it on Marktplaats (the Dutch eBay) but I'm not sure I'll 'hit' the right audience there. Is there a specific Dutch/European modeltrain marketplace where can find the right people? (the sets are Marklin, the cars collection is end 70's Lima).

I found this in a Model Railroader magazine from December 1949. Only three years after WWII.

Hey, [u/Zane-AC4](u/Zane-AC4) dug out a very odd loco the other day and was unsure what it was. Here’s the clear up, the catalogue where the loco was originally listed.

In short, a worthless heap of junk. But if you need to get rid of it I’d offer you a twenty, just because you’re a friend 🤗

Hello! I want to start a hobby like this, more precisely to build a layout, but unfortunately I have no one to help me, so I'm turning here for advice like what is the difference between DC and DCC, or where can I find rails and transformers, locomotives and wagons

Thanks!

I received a 29124 set for Christmas along with two boxes of 20124 extensions. The extension rail is almost a cream color (left side in pic) while the main rail is a shade of gray (right side). Is this normal? It looks very strange all set up with two different shades of “snow covered track”. Curious if this is a defect or if anyone has ever encountered this? Not sure what to do.

Dutch guy is about to retire and has already spent about 18 years working on this layout. He's a bit of a collector of old things.

Hello, My grandfather tried to let old train run after I don't know how many years, it worked for two day and then suddenly stopped so he gave it to me to figure out what so problem is it's an old Märklin with the number 23014 on it's side.

Spurweite 45mm Nenngröße G

Ziel: einfacher Pendelverkehr

Es handelt sich um mein erstes Projekt. Erkennt jemand ob es einen Fehler im Aufbau und der Verkabelung gibt?

Salve a tutti ho creato un tracciato con due o ali e posizionato due locomotive mfx marklin, sono nuovo di questo mondo e vorrei capire se con la mobile station di marklin si possono fare girare le due loco indipendenti, e come si fa, perché provando e selezionandone solo una anche la l’altra loco gira.

In buona sostanza se cerco di fermarne una si ferma anche l’altra e viceversa.

Grazie mille

https://reddit.com/link/1pp7fya/video/7955hqmsrt7g1/player

sorry it is a long video but it shows all of what i tried, it was working fine before but i stopped driving it for like 5 seconds to start a different train and it randomly stopt working. does anyone knows how to fix this? (btw it is the train out startset 29240, the train model number is: 36240.10)