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CLUB
NEWS
2012
600 meters (1,969 ft.) of running fun
In portrait: the N-gaugers
of the Fürth Eisenbahn Club
Universal workhorse
Class 56.2-8 freight locomotive
exclusively for Club members
TRIX Club-News 05/2010
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A visual delight: exclusively for Club members, Trix is producing the class 56.2-8 freight loco as a new tooling in H0. A set of five freight cars loaded with
wood is produced as a consist to match the loco.
Contents
Issue 03 / 2012
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News: Märklin summer festival – join in and win / Annual chronicles
DVD 2012 – part 1 / One year free of charge: Märklin Kids Club ............ 4
Top model: universal freight train steam loco – the class 56.2-8 in H0,
exclusively for Trix Club members . ......................................................... 6
Anniversary models for loyal Club members ................................ ...... 10
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Color in play: surface finishing of Trix models relies on authentic
aesthetics and many years of experience ............................................. 12
Portrait: the summit of the model builder’s art: the N-gauge layouts
of the Fürth Eisenbahn Club really draw the public ............................. 16
Overview: current round tables . ............................................................ 19
Service
Layout portrait: favorite locos and train consists on 3.5 sq. meters –
less than 38 sq. ft. – unconventional hexagonal N-gauge layout, with
circular runs ............................................................................................. 20
New cooperation partners: the Härtsfeld museum railroad and
the miniature park “Kleiner Harz” ......................................................... 23
Editorial / masthead .................................................................................. 3
The Club mailing 03/2012 includes the following enclosures: Trix News 03/2012, Märklin Magazin 03/2012,
DVD 2012 Annual chronicles (part 1), new 2012 summer products brochure, registration form for Märklin
Kids Club, order form for: Club model class 56.2-8 and freight car set, main catalog 2012/2013.
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Masterly: Trix models are impressive for their quality – a reputation enhanced by their perfection in lettering and painting.
Your service numbers
Dear Club members,
Customer Service
Club hotline:
Telephone Monday – Friday
from 10 a.m. – 6.30 p.m.
Telephone: + 49 (0) 71 61 / 6 08 - 2 13 • Fax: - 3 08
E-mail: club@trix.de
Queries about technology, repairs
and spare parts / complaints:
Telephone Monday – Friday
from 10 a.m. – 6.30 p.m.
Telephone inland: 0 90 01 / 6 08-2 22 (49 cents a
minute from the German fixed phone network,
mobile tariffs may differ)
Telephone from abroad:
+ 49 (0) 71 61 / 6 08 - 2 22
Fax: +49 (0) 71 61 / 6 08-2 25
E-mail: service@maerklin.de
Internet
www.trix.de
club.maerklin.de
Moving?
Please inform us in good time of your new
address so we will know where we can reach
you. A forwarding address at the Post Office
unfortunately will not suffice.
Thank you for your cooperation!
Imprint
Action in attractive scenery: the N-gauge modular layout of the Fürther Eisenbahn Club is
imaginatively designed and at exhibitions it takes the public’s breath away.
We welcome the summer with a very special model highlight: for Club
members only, in 2012 we are producing the class 56.2-8 freight locomotive as a further exclusive model. For almost 50 years, this steam
loco gave exemplary service in heavy freight traffic, and this is why at
the same time to match the new H0 model we are producing a set of
five freight cars representing wood loads – a unique train consist and
also for Club members only. Another subject in the current Club News
is up-and-coming modelers, which is most important to Trix and the
Trix Club too. Thus we are offering all Club members the opportunity
to take up a year’s subscription in the Märklin Kids Club free of charge,
which they can then elegantly assign to young model railroaders. The
only condition: assignment must take place in the summer holidays.
Loyalty to the Trix-Club is also worth while: any five- or ten-year member can obtain exclusive special models to mark the anniversary.
In-depth insights into the art of painting are given by our finishing
experts – Trix models have long been renowned for their fine lettering,
printing quality and precise hand painting. It is also a great pleasure
for us to portray the Fürth Railroaders’ Club; their impressive N-gauge
layout is always a star attraction at exhibitions.
Finally, in the service section we welcome two new cooperation partners: the Härtsfeld museum railroad in Neresheim and the miniature
park “Kleiner Harz” in Wernigerode which attract visitors with generous
concessions for Club members. Enjoy your reading!
Your Trix Club team
Editorial
3G Media GmbH: Peter Waldleitner
(editor-in-chief), Lars Harnisch, Rochus
Publisher
Rademacher, Lorelei Wiegand
Gebr. Märklin & Cie. GmbH
Layout
Stuttgarter Str. 55 – 57
Gerhard Baumann GmbH & Co. KG
73033 Göppingen, Germany
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members. Subject to changes and delivery options for all the
products mentioned here. All rights reserved. Reprinting in whole or
in part only with prior written permission. This also applies for
Photographs
recording in electronic databases and duplication on CD-ROMs. The
Märklin Customer Clubs
Unless indicated otherwise: Trix Club
editor is not liable for any unsolicited submission of manuscripts,
Silvia Römpp (responsible)
Title: H. Seehuber
photographs or illustrations.
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This is how you can win:
Fun for all railroaders, large and small: at the Märklin summer festival there
will be super painting and handcraft action all about the model railroad.
Summer festival in the World of Experience
Experience the model railroad, build it, play with it: this
year at the Märklin summer festival on 27 and 28 July in
the Erlebniswelt in Göppingen there will be no end of activities and games galore for the whole family. Treasures
dating back through over 150 years of model railroad history will be there to admire as well as original demonstration
layouts in various gauges, and refreshments will be available as well. Exclusively for Club members and parallel to
the summer festival, on 27 July there’s a special chance:
if you always wanted to know exactly how the sound gets
into the loco, or how it is painted, you have a chance to
tour the production facilities in Göppingen. Club members
can take part in an exclusive guided tour of the factory
and while going round the production lines, find out all
about the individual stages which make up the process.
See the box on the right for information on how to apply.
60 Club members can win a place on an exclusive
factory tour giving you a look behind the scenes
at Märklin’s main factory in Göppingen: there will be
two tours, each of 30 people. The first tour starts
at 10:00, and the second at 13:30. All Club members
can apply to join the tours on 27 July 2012 either
in writing or on line in the Club section.
The procedure: simply log in to the Internet page
http://club.trix.de and apply under the section
“Gewinnspiel” (“competition”) and put your name
down for one of the two tours, or send a postcard
with the keyword “Werkführung I” (10:00) or “Werkführung II” (13:30) (“Tour I” or “Tour II”) to Trix
at the following address: Gebr. Märklin & Cie. GmbH,
Trix-Club, Postfach 960, 73009 Göppingen, Germany.
Closing date for applications is 30 June 2012.
If you apply by post, please be sure to add your
full name, address and your Club membership
number. All winners will be notified by us either
by e-mail or by post, and there is no right of appeal.
We wish all Club members the best of luck!
Great competition for the European Championships
Go-o-o-al! On 8 June, the whistle blows again: the European Championships
kick off in the Ukraine and in Poland and football fans the world over will be
cheering on their favorite teams.
If you would like to celebrate off the football field, you can join in the exclusive on-line forecast game by Märklin and win some smashing prizes.
More information on this can be found on www.maerklin.de.
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News & Facts
Exhibition trends from Dortmund
Powerful models impress
At this year’s Intermodellbau in Dortmund, Trix impressed
the visitors with an exhibition layout, top new releases and
exclusive models. The “El Dorado” for model railroaders
had plenty of variety on show: the entire sector was there
to present their latest products and show the current miniature trends. Trix members made use of the chance to
cast an eye over the Club models 2012 – the class 403 in
H0 and the class 218 in N – and to swap stories with
other fans. The young visitors had a great time too: on
the large play area at the Märklin exhibition stand they
could play with Märklin my world-models and show off
their skills with a locomotive game. There was also a
little surprise in store for Club members at the Club stand:
on presentation of their Club card, Trix members were
made a gift of an LED lamp in metal. Thanks to a spring clip,
the finely-engraved gift can be clipped directly onto the
key-ring – a real eye-catcher.
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Once again there’s
something to
see: part 1 of the
annual chronicles DVD
Exciting records,
interesting prototype
stories and unusual
model classes: twice a
year, Club members can
look forward to a speciallyproduced DVD with current
events and important occasions to do with Trix and
the model railroad hobby. Part 1 of the year’s
chronicle DVD 2012 is now here, and it takes the
viewer on a visit to the company Mink Bürsten
– the official partner of the 2012 museum car. It
continues with an exclusive expert discussion on
the fascinating class 50 an a portrait of a Minitrix
layout. From the do-it-yourself workshop, there
are also valuable tips on layout construction and
we take a look back over the Trix-Express meet in
Backnang. Part 1 of the annual DVD for 2012 is enclosed with this issue. There is a suitable cover
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Lots to see, lots to experience: the exhibition layout and 2012 new releases
attracted visitors to the Trix stand (photo above). For Club members there
was a welcoming present: an LED clip-on lamp (photo below).
A year free of charge in
the Märklin Kids Club
The latest news from the model railroad club, super
models, competitions and tips on forthcoming events:
the Märklin Kids Club offers the younger enthusiasts any
amount of model railroad fun. During the summer holiday period from June to August 2012, all Trix members
can register free for a year as members of the Märklin
Kids Club and take advantage of the great Club bonuses.
All you need to do is fill in the enclosed registration flyer
or register online under www.maerklinfanclub.de.
For this please enter the code 9eyxbbkU. Membership
ends automatically after a year, but before it expires,
the Kids-Club member will receive a letter from the
Club. Membership can be extended at any time at the
usual annual subscription fee.
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Life and soul of the Märklin Kids Club: the four friends Theo, Paul,
Raschel and Lilly are the lively characters.
Trix-Clubnews 03 / 2012
Impressive: in 2012,
the class 56.2-8 freight
loco as yet another
exclusive model for Trix
Club members.
Class 56.2-8 freight locomotive: once-only series
only for Club members
The universal power-pack
Notes on ordering
The class 56.2-8 freight
loco and the freight car set
with wood loads will be
produced in 2012 in a oneoff series exclusively for
Club members. Each Club
member can order one
example of each of the exclusive models from his
authorized dealer with the
enclosed order form. We
expressly draw your attention to the fact that these
order forms are not transferable. Closing date for orders
is 31 July 2012. Deliveries
are scheduled to begin in
the: first quarter of 2013.
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Railroad experts view her as something very special: the power pack known as the
class 56.2-8 freight locomotive, the Prussian G 8.1 rebuilt with a leading pony truck,
performed reliable and sterling service for the best part of fifty years. Now, exclusively for Club members, Trix is producing the loco in a once-only series together
with a five-piece freight car set.
Its pedigree is legendary: on the provincial
railroads in Germany, the Prussian G 8.1 was
one of the most successful of all freight locomotives. No less than 4958 were built. With its
axle loading of 17.5 tonnes, the loco operated
on main lines. “The Prussian G 8.1 was a real
power pack. The loco was mainly employed
on heavy freight trains”, explains Andreas
Zwicker, responsible for the design of the exclusive Club model. The steam loco had a reputation of being extremely reliable and strong.
When they were taken over by the German
State Railroad in the 1920s, the G 8.1 series
locos were given the classification 55.
So that the proven and powerful machines
would have even better route availability, the
state railroad decided on some modifications.
Between 1934 and 1941, 691 of the machines
were rebuilt with an additional front pony
truck. The aim was to reduce the axle-load and
thus enable the machines to run on lightly-laid
branch lines. “Those who know look first at the
pony truck on the class 56.2-8 – that is the
most marked difference between them and
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the original G 8.1 – the later class 55”, continues Andreas Zwicker. The rebuild made a
number of other modifications to the machines
necessary. The frame was extended and the
boiled raised and moved forward slightly. The
new leading truck was a “Bissel” truck, and
the leading wheelset was given minimal sideplay. Overall, the locomotive’s behavior on
curves was much improved.
The rebuilding increased the tare weight of
the locomotive from 62.2 to 67.9 tonnes, at
the same time reducing its adhesion weight.
The reduced axle-loading had the desired effect of permitting the class 56.2-8 to be used
on branch lines. Due to the more favorable
weight distribution of the locomotive and its
better guidance on curves, its permitted top
speed forwards was increased to 70 km/h
(43 mph) and 50 km/h (31 mph) backwards.
The loco could maintain top speed on the level
with a 750-tonne freight train.
The rebuild’s numerous modifications make
the class 56.2-8 altogether unusual. Repositioning the engineer’s cab and boiler gave the
locomotive a completely new side view. These
are alterations which have of course all been
reproduced in the model. “The class 56.2-8
is very largely a new tooling”, says Andreas
Zwicker. The running gear and its cast chassis
and the model’s decking and engineer’s cab
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were all newly designed”, continues designer
Zwicker. “In addition, a new run was needed
for the pipes and one of the pumps was moved
3 mm, corresponding to the prototype” enumerates Andreas Zwicker. While the sand pipes
were cast integrally with the boiler on the
class 55, on the class 56.2-8 they have been removed from the mold and are applied separately. As the steam inlet ports to the cylinders
were relocated as well, there is a new main
air reservoir and a new reversing rod to match.
Despite the number of fittings, there is still
daylight between the boiler and the frames.
H0 Product Manager Karl-Heinz Grässle finds
that the many complicated working steps have
been well worth while: “The model doesn’t
just look the part, it is really impressive with
all its numerous details and technical highlights. Running sounds like squealing brakes,
shaking the fire grate and the compressed air
pump were specially created”. And Grässle is
also very conscious of the significance of the
H0 model: “The class 56.2-8 is a most important class which deserves a place on every
layout and in every collection”. Prototype for
the new exclusive model is loco 56 362,
which was allocated to the Friedberg depot
from 1954 to 1959. The loco is coupled to a
type 3T 16.5 tender. And so that there’s plenty
of atmosphere on the layout, there is a smoke
Designer Andreas Zwicker:
“Chassis, decking and engineer’s
cab are completely new”.
Fascinated by the looks and
sound of the Club model: H0
Product Manager Karl-Heinz
Grässle.
Considered absolutely
reliable and extremely robust:
here is the class 56.2-8 in
Darmstadt locomotive depot.
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Models
Smokebox and boiler
extended
Reversing rod new
Decking new
Sander pipes
applied separately
Smoke generator
as standard
Engineer’s cab new
Triple headlights
Leading pony
truck
The striking side view of the class 56.2-8: compared with the original G 8.1 (later the class 55), not only is the leading pony truck new; so also is the decking
and the engineer’s cab. In addition, smokebox and boiler were extended; the sander pipes are now fitted separately to the model.
Trix Club models
22563 Freight train steam locomotive
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Prototype: freight train steam locomotive of class 56.2-8
of the German Federal Railroad (DB). Prussian G 8.1
rebuilt with a leading pony truck. With DB reflective glass
lamp above and two state railroad lamps below. Coal
tender of type 3T 16.5. Road number 56 362. As it was
running in about 1959.
Model: fitted with DCC Digital-Decoder and extensive
sound functions. Controlled high-efficiency motor with
flywheel. All 4 axles driven; friction tires. Locomotive
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and tender mainly of metal. Fitted with smoke generator as standard. Triple headlights which change over
with direction of travel and smoke generator operate
conventionally and can be controlled digitally. Lighting
with warm white LEDs. Permanent close coupling between loco and tender with guide mechanism. The
back of the tender and the front of the loco have close
couplings with NEM pocket-guide. Many separatelyapplied details such as pipes and sanders. Piston-tail
protectors, brake pipes, imitation screw couplings,
engineer and stoker supplied. Length over buffers
21.1 cm (8-1/4").
Digital functions
Headlights
Smoke generator
Model highlights 22563
• Largely new tooling
• Metal construction
• With DCC decoder
• With extensive sound functions
• Lighting with warm white LEDs
• Smoke generator fitted as
standard
Steam loco running sound
Loco whistle
Direct control
Brakes squealing off
Air pump
Switcher whistle
Let off steam / compressed air
Shoveling coal
Shake up the grate
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generator fitted as standard as well.But a
freight engine needs matching freight cars too,
and these are also produced exclusively for
Club members. The five-piece freight car set
“wood loads” is made up of a type Kmmks 51
sliding roof car with brakeman’s cab, a type
Rr 20 stake car with pressed metal stakes,
two gondola cars type Omm 52 and one type
Omm 55 gondola car. Special feature: the
open boxcars are all loaded with stacked “tree
trunks”. For the first time too, the type Omm
52 cars are fitted with brakeman’s platform and
brakeman’s cab respectively. These original
models guarantee you superb variety on your
layout and make freight transport in miniature a really great experience.
Photos: J. Bügel collection, Trix, H. Seehuber
Characteristic of the class 56.2-8: the leading pony-truck. The exclusive H0 Club model is
produced with the most modern technology such as DCC decoder and a wide range of sound
functions.
24192 Freight car set “wood loads”
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Prototype: five different freight cars for transporting
wood. One sliding-roof car type Kmmks 51 with brakeman’s cabin, one type Rr 20 stake car with pressed
metal stakes and loaded with tree trunks. One type
Omm 52 open boxcar with brakeman’s cabin, an
open boxcar of type Omm 55 and an open boxcar type
Omm 52 with a brakeman’s platform. All type Omm
cars laden with properly trimmed and stacked tree
trunks. Modeled as running in around 1959.
Model: four cars with real wood loads and close
couplings. The Omm 52 type cars are produced for
the first time with brakeman’s platform and brakeman’s cabin respectively. On the Kmmks 51 sliding
roof car, the roof sections open and are secured
with magnets. The stake car Rr 20 is supplied complete with pressed metal stakes. Total length over
buffers approx. 62 cm (24-7/16"). AC wheelsets per
car 2 x 700150.
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Club models
Long-term Trix Club membership is worthwhile
Exclusive special models
for loyal Club members
Exclusively for those who have been loyal Trix Club members for five or even
ten years, we produce special anniversary models. A five-year membership is
honored with a grade measurement car, and a ten-year membership with a
track-cleaning car. The models can be obtained in either H0 or N gauge. There
is a corresponding order form enclosed with this mailing.
5 years Joined in 2007
24080 Grade Measurement Car (H0)
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Prototype: Flatcar Kls
Model: Era V. The built-in spirit level has a scale from which you can read
off rising and falling grades directly in percentage terms. Close coupling
mechanism. Length over buffers 157 mm (3-1/32").
H0
15344 Grade Measurement Car (N)
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Prototype: Flatcar Rms 31
Model: Era V. The built-in spirit level has a scale from which you can read
off rising and falling grades directly in percentage terms. Close coupling
mechanism. Length over buffers 77 mm (3-1/32").
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All members who joined in 2006 will
receive the order form along with
this mailing.
How to obtain the special models:
For those celebrating five- and ten-years’ membership
of the Trix Club, we have special models available.
Eligible members will automatically receive the form
to order one model. The form is sent with this mailing
to all members who joined in 2007 and 2002 respectively. The special models are offered in the gauges Trix
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H0 or Minitrix (N). Both gauges are included on the order
form. One model may be ordered for each gauge.
Please hand in the order form to the dealer you wish
to supply your special model by July 31, 2012 at the
latest. Prices for the anniversary models are shown on
the order form.
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Club models
Closing date
for orders:
July 31, 2012
10 years joined 2002
H0
24220 Track cleaning car (H0)
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Prototype: Hinged-hatched pair of KK 15 cars with
hinged roof-hatches, in service as railroad maintenance
cars. Design as in era III.
N
15220 Track cleaning car (N)
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All clean: the polishing pads on the track cleaning car pick up particles of
dirt as they run over the tracks, and they can be replaced as required.
Model: Both cars with built-in track-cleaning unit, consisting of
a metal block which can move vertically with parallel polishing
felt cleaning pads. The cleaning pads are replaceable and can
be washed. Hatches can be opened. Short couplings with close
coupler guide. Both cars connected with plug-in couplers.
Length over buffers 15.3 cm (3-7/16“.) DC wheel set 70 0150. The
gentle cleaning process is also suitable for nickel or brass rail.
Prototype: Track cleaning car 925. Condition around 1980.
Model: Era IV. Underneath the vehicle there is a frame with
track-cleaning felt blocks on the Jörger system mounted.
The felt blocks are washable at 30°. Two spare felt blocks are
supplied. Length over buffers 88 mm (3-7/16“.) The gentle
cleaning process is also suitable for nickel or brass rail.
For ambitious model railroaders loyal to the Club
for five years, there is a grade measurement car
by Trix in H0 (item 24080) or N gauge (item 15344).
This car can be used for accurate measurement
of inclines and angles on your layout. Goodbye to
dirty rails: members loyal to their Club for ten years
can look forward to an era III track-cleaning car in
H0 gauge (item 24220) or era IV in N gauge (item
15220). The cars each have two cleaning surfaces
of polishing felt and are suitable for cleaning M-,
C- and K-track. And that improves the running characteristics of your model trains.
Attention all Trix-Express model railroaders: in 2013 for
the first time we will also be offering a special model to
our Trix-Express fans. It will have been worth waiting for:
the long awaited anniversary model is now to be produced
and all those who have been loyal Club members for five or
more years will be able to order it. Trix-Express fans can look forward with
bated breath to the special model appearing next year.
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Ausstellung
Finishing: working steps cleverly put together
Hard-won aesthetics
Really beautiful and beautifully real: proper authentic coloring of models demands
fine brush control, and understanding of subject and machine. The finishing team for
Trix-models has a fourth asset too: invaluable experience.
Club News: Mr. Ludwig, how do you, as master of finishing,
evaluate a model?
Ludwig: First of all, I look at general authenticity. The second
thing I do is see how fine details have been executed – for
example I make sure that two decorative lines are parallel.
And the third thing I do is assess the color brilliance and
legibility of all the printing.
Michael Ludwig: manager
of the electroplating and
finishing shop.
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Klaus Schwichtenberg: the expert for
printing and pre-printing stages.
Club News: I guess you take a magnifying glass for that?
Ludwig: Yes, and I take pleasure in the “aha” effects: here
a plug, there a sand-filler and here there is lettering such as
“Ausbesserungswerk Meiningen” (repair shops) or “Druckluftleitung 0,3 bar” (compressed air line). It’s these very details
which give our models that exclusive “something special”.
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A steady hand: one of the top skills in part-painting is hand-painting. This step is
taken on by the painting team when the use of spray or printing technology on the
model is either too complicated or just not possible.
Internal
Highlight 1: records in printing steps
Club News: So just how small is the lettering?
Schwichtenberg: Our standard for line thickness is down
to 0.03 millimeters, for lettering we print down to 0.25 millimeters capital height. But we have in the past printed
lettering of only 0.1 millimeters. For comparison, the smallest lettering on euro notes is 0.2 millimeters high.
Club News: How does the printing procedure function and
how do you achieve this extremely high quality of printing?
Ludwig: In tampo printing there are very fine depressions
in the printing plates – the positive of the print motif – filled
with ink. A silicone pad picks up the ink which is transferred by adhesion to the blank. In tampo printing, Märklin
leads the field and to achieve this, we work very closely
with the manufacturers of our printing centers. And quality
is also a matter of settings: we want what we print to be
legible.
Club News: What are the particular challenges?
Schwichtenberg: Three-dimensional printing such as that
on the “bib” on the ends of the VT 08.5 and the “Senator”,
or the stripe which runs all the way round the snout of the
“Donald Duck” class 403. It is almost impossible to work
out how to realize these designs in print and we need to
have entire series of experimental runs for the distortion
parameters – for the Senator, for example, we had three
printing machines running in parallel for a whole week.
Club News: What does the success depend on?
Schwichtenberg: On the types of ink and their viscosity,
geometry of the pads – the whole thing is an interplay
between copy, printing plate, ink, pad and machine and
the expertise of the specialist working the machine. Our
experiences are documented and thus become part of the
in-house standards.
Club News: How does the ideal painting process work?
Ludwig: We clamp a die cast zinc body in a special jig in
our automatic spray painters and apply two coats of
primer and the covering paint in the required color. There
follows the partial coloring by printing or hand-spraying
with stencils then the painting. A last coat of clear varnish
follows: this offers protection and ensures a homogeneous appearance – printed and water-based paints have
different degrees of gloss.
Club News: And what makes the work so complicated?
Ludwig: The working steps in partial painting are interlinked: there are either pieces to be fitted before spraying
Art printing: printed pictures, like that on the CLAAS
class 152 promotional loco (above) are enormously complicated in themselves. When on top of that a loco has very
delicate surface finishing, the pre-printing stage has to split
the picture in two technically, then afterwards the edge
can no longer be seen with the naked eye. This is how things
are done for example on the H0 loco in the class 460 Swiss
Collection IV, where we also needed special colors for their
Swiss coats-of-arms. For the Minitrix counterpart (below),
the picture doesn’t need to be split. On another promotional
loco, there were a record 140 printing steps – twice as many
as on a standard loco. For special brilliance of the colors,
each of them is printed
twice. And for authentic
coloring, the pre-printing
stage has to work with up
to three coloring systems.
Highlight 2: artistic effects
Chimera: the winter painting for the Borsig heavy freight
locomotive planned to be built as the class 53.0 makes it
look like an illusion. The loco is an advertisement for the
skill and trouble taken by the toolmakers: the pattern etched
out of brass is not damaged at all, but specifically bent to
ensure the misting effect we wanted was achieved when
spraying.
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Highlight 3: finest lines
Delicate: the decorative lining along the
sides of the “Senator”
are only 0.03 millimeters thick – that
demands precision
in the printing foils,
profound mastery
of the tampo print
process and suitable
printing machines.
Highlight 4: highly-complicated printing
is done, or painting as an intermediate stage. The painting team lays down the sequence in working planning,
so that the tools and machines will be ready when they are
needed. On top of all the complexity is the fact that we
have a throughput of some 2.4 million parts a year.
Club News: Why do you need two different paint systems?
Schwichtenberg: For spray applications, we use eco-friendly
water-based paints. We print with inks using solvents for
two reasons: first of all, their viscosity can be very precisely
controlled, and secondly, they are touch-dry in four seconds – which is needed before we can apply other colors.
Club News: And the water-based paints?
Ludwig: We dry the sprayed parts in an oven for fours
hours at 55 °C (131 °F). If we were to apply a further coat
over one not quite dry, the result would be either adhesion problems or it would tend to flake off. When we spray,
a part is accurately fitted on the spindle and the machine
setting covers all the parts to be sprayed.
Club News: Is that pure routine?
Schwichtenberg: No, we define a large number of parameters: they cover such as the jet and its setting, spraying
pressure, amount and viscosity of the paint – it mustn’t be
allowed to dry too fast or to form tears. There is preparation
work as well. On early steam locos with integrally-cast engineer’s cab, there were sometimes spraying shadows, so
these parts are pre-sprayed by hand. And we blow off
the parts with ionized air before spraying them – that increases the surface tension and removes dust and fluff.
A tricky front: the front end of the VT 08.5 is printed in 3-D –
in printing terms, difficult to predict and only able to be
guaranteed after a long series of tests. The same applied
for example to the “Donald Duck” and the “Senator”.
Highlight 5: the finest lettering
Flawless: the height
of the capitals in
lettering averages
out at 0.25 millimeters. On the rail
bus, lettering is as
small as 0.1 millimeters – half the
height of the smallest capital letter on
euro notes.
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Club News: Which paints do you find tricky?
Schwichtenberg: Spraying the primer is a real tightrope
walk between spraying enough to cover and not spraying
too much. The biggest challenges are generally lighter
colors like white, yellow and orange, as the binder is transparent and we need to use several coats. That in turn
can make the color darker and can paint out details or block
drill-holes.
Club News: In what circumstances do you paint by hand?
Ludwig: When spraying and printing are either too
complicated or just not possible. We also use metering
machines – more or less a spray gun with a very fine
needle-jet. A foot-switch is used in this system to supply
the air. In this way, a double line can be drawn precisely,
whereas a brush would have to be dipped repeatedly and
the painting pressure would keep varying.
Club News: Do you make investments in painting?
Ludwig: Continuously; we intend to stay out in front and
achieve improved efficiency through innovation advantages. To take one example, our new, freely-programmable
printing center has the most modern tampo print technology
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Perfect fit: the boiler of the “Big Boy” has a black
primer – there are stencils to protect it when the
silver of the smoke box is being sprayed.
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Not trivial: the light background color of the class 110.3 with the
“Mouse Show-train” requires several coats to cover – too much
paint and the color is too dark due to the transparent binder. And
too little color is possibly even worse.
Without drifting: the line around the rail bus is printed without any
breaks – the reward is the uniformity in thickness and color.
A visual delight: all tires of the class 50 freight train steam loco are printed right to the flanges – to good effect.
on the market. With it we can carry out every working
step on a classic loco body with only one clamping – every
position can be approached. That means quality and
working economy.
Club News: What can the machine actually do?
Schwichtenberg: It can carry out up to 36 printing stages
with eight different colors – for each body we have a
machine running for three minutes and more. We integrate
working steps to increase efficiency and achieve an improvement in quality due to the fact that the part doesn’t
have to be reclamped repeatedly. We define for the printing for example on the VT 98 a zero-point for all the working steps, and even the line all round is printed without
drifting.
Club News: How is the control arranged?
Ludwig: First of all, the painter is responsible for quality
control directly. Before series production, when the machines are set up a release sample is produced, and that is
the painter’s pattern. Secondly, there is a neutral testing
system established: quality assurance staff checks the
outgoing goods and on their twice-a-day walkabouts, they
look over the shoulders of all the staff. They also pull
fresh samples out of the stock and thus we can correct
any deviations immediately.
Club News: Are there long-term evaluations?
Ludwig: The staff fill in defects cards, we record machine
running times and check numbers using the performance
index and in this way we discover potential in the process.
Effectiveness and optimization go hand in hand – but in
the end, it’s the quality that counts.
Club News: Have you a favorite loco?
Ludwig: No, every loco has its own story to tell with its
own specific characteristics. In any event, we are always
delighted when we can pick up a successful newly-painted
design and say: that’s exactly what we imagined it would
look like.
Text: Rochus Rademacher / Photographs: Kötzle, Märklin
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Action and scenery: in the
Schwarzburg extension of
the FEC, a motorized red
tractor is already snaking
its way through the traffic.
The N-gauge modules
already built are alive too,
with a hectic rescue station
and a municipal park to
catch everyone’s attention.
Portrait: the N-railroaders of the Fürth Railroad Club e. V.
Building-crazy Franconians:
five of the 65 FEC members
in front of their Club house;
second from left is senior
N-gauger Dieter Ludwig.
600 meters (1,969 feet)
of running pleasure
Long, tasty train consists served up against a background of model building artistry –
the Fürth Eisenbahn Club (FEC) gets N-gaugers smacking their lips in pleasure. It’s
not only modules that the Franconians prepare in their kitchen: they celebrate in the
club rooms too.
It’s a Faustian creative urge which drives the
FEC Fürth on. “In a single year, we have constructed 18 meters (59 feet) of new line”, reports
N-gauge group leader Dieter Ludwig. There
are three reasons for the club being among the
most active model railroading clubs in the
Fürth / Nuremberg region. “There are 600 meters (1,969 feet) of track and 150 signals on
our modular layout” says Dieter Ludwig giving the first reason for the popularity of the
FEC at exhibitions. “Secondly, we concentrate
on running and marshaling operations with
“real” trains, like a 14-car ICE, or a 25-car
freight train – and Minitrix is always there”.
The third magnet is the loving care devoted to
the design of the railroad’s environment:
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there’s music playing in the beer-garden, a
shovel excavator is working, and – oh, yes, the
wind power generators: “I once said to an
eight-year-old he would have to keep the windmills turning, otherwise the trains would run
out of electricity, and bless him, he pressed the
button every two minutes for over three hours”.
The Franconian energy bubbles forth from
the pleasure of public contact and the appreciation this shows. “Our trains and train running operations are exactly what the public
likes to see”, FEC secretary Fritz Sperk has
found out. 40 trains are on the rails, and rail-
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ing that little lot takes almost a day. “The layout is not screened off, and that encourages
the public and specialist visitors to talk to us
straight away”. Visitors can even lay hands
on: for the sake of motivating future generations, the Fürth members even put children
in charge of the control box for the 16-track
main station – the kids very soon get the
hang of the controls. And that sparks them off.
They often want to sign up as members straight
away. “We build modules in the club room.
The layout is stowed, running operations are
limited” says member Heinz Haubner with a
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1 – Everything’s flowing: finely
graded from the river over the road
to the tanks and their train connection up to the retaining wall and
the main line. The river is being
modeled even more realistically.
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2 – Everything’s shunting: the MAK
diesel loco is leaving the harbor
station with tank cars. That’s where
the goods unloaded from the freighter will be loaded onto trucks as well.
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Overview: the 3-D planning of the
harbor apron with shunting operations was realized by the FEC in 2 ½
months, and the section celebrated
its premiere at the Faszination Modellbau exhibition in Karlsruhe.
3 – Everything’s over: the south end of the
harbor is marked by huge bulk silos, while
the double track main line leads the eye to
the next section of line.
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Visitor magnet:
in N-gauge motifs
by the FEC such
as the major building
site, looks are glued
on the subject.
Description Fürther Eisenbahnclub e. V.
The Club
The Fürth Eisenbahn Club (FEC) was
formed in 1984, and has 65 members.
“We have a committee of six members
and two building supervisors” explains
Dieter Ludwig, who organizes the active
N-gaugers. “With membership subscriptions, we have a budget with which
we maintain our club premises and take
part in exhibitions”. Catchment area
for the FEC is the region around Fürth and
Nuremberg. Running operations are
primarily in N-gauge, and the club meets
every Wednesday. Contact N-gaugers:
Dieter Ludwig, Tel.: +49(0)911/7530854,
home page: www.dieterludwig.de,
E-Mail: dieterludwig@onlinehome.de
(home page FEC:
www.fuerther-eisenbahnclub.de,
E-Mail: fec.ev@web.de).
Full house: in the Frankencenter the enthusiastic
FEC fills a long passage with no bother at all.
Exhibition: an amazed public gathers
around the N-gauge layout of the FEC.
The layouts
The FEC maintains an older H0
layout, the Ludwigsbahn in H0
with Minitrix “Adler” and the
N-gauge layout which is over
70 meters (230 feet) long. The
N-gauge group attends exhibitions,
such as in the Citycenter Fürth,
Faszination Modellbau Karlsruhe,
Intermodellbau Dortmund or
Frankencenter and the REZ shopping
mall in Nuremberg. Secretary
Fritz Sperk asserts that “Running
takes priority with us”. “We run
everything from the “Adler” to the
ICE with authentic trains”. The
FEC travels with a 7.5-tonnes truck
loaded with everything including
stove and coffee machine – the
Franconians are after all informal.
Railroad country
FEC treasurer Manfred Reuss has
advice for any intending visitors: “If
you want to visit us, bring plenty of
time”. In Nuremberg there is the DB
Museum and the toy museum, and
it’s not very far to the Miniature Railway
World of Experience in Dietenhofen
with its mighty N-gauge layout. Steam
loco lines are operated by the Fränkische Museums Eisenbahn Club
(www.fraenkischemuseumseisenbahn.de)
and Dampfbahn Fränkische Schweiz
(www.dfs.ebermannstadt.de).
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On the road: the FEC travels to exhibitions
with their own truck.
note of caution. Fritz Sperk adds an observation
on the professionalism of the hobby: “We are
model builders, we are not playing with toy
trains”.
In module building, the rules are as simple as
they are strict: whoever builds, decides – the
colleagues discuss realization of the idea and
the completed module becomes the club’s property. Tips and help are welcome, but no schoolmasterish criticism is tolerated: anyone who
claims to be able to do something better has
to prove it. Currently there is a car and truck
stop on the program. A new member in the person of Peter Hohmann has car-system experience – and all abilities are mercilessly exploited.
“Peter installs a motor in the tiniest N-scale
cars”, says N-group leader Ludwig, shaking his
head in disbelief. “And his module with eight
charging stations keeps the lively traffic flowing elegantly”.
With this dynamic fleet of vehicles, the huge
FEC layout gains yet another attraction. And the
harmony of the overall design remains unaffected. “The basic concept provides for key modules
such as the stations and universal pieces of
ground like the car and truck stop, Franconian
Switzerland or the harbor section”, says treasurer Manfred Reuss. Unthinkable: the sequence
church fete-airport-steelworks...
Dieter Ludwig visualizes all the planning (“in
this respect I’m a freak”) with WinTrack in 3-D:
in this way, the entire layout is recorded, its
harmony can be checked and “the concept of
a double-storey main station is easy to clarify”.
In order that running the long modular section
presents an additional challenge, the FEC admits to a very complicated control: running is
analog, control is digital – and each of the three
stations has its own controller – just as the independent railroad depot has. This sort of challenge is one to suit the FEC, Ludwig assures us:
“The appeal of the model railroader’s existence
is in designing things together, and with the
right people, you can work miracles”.
Text: Rochus Rademacher / Photographs: Kötzle, FEC Fürth, LW
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Events
Trix Round Tables
Trix modelers devote their leisure time to the best hobby: the model
railroad. Especially in association with others, it is great fun to talk about
railroads, model railroad layouts and models.
Hobby railroaders enjoy getting together to
build layouts, to talk about the latest news
from Trix, or to run the rule over the latest
products. On this page, we offer a platform
for all those who would like to meet others
of a like mind and to experience the depth of
the Trix railroad world. We publish here addresses of “Trix Club round tables”, but we can
only publish details for private meetings of
members of the Trix Club. We do not publish
commercial announcements or those emanating from model railroad associations. We
cannot accept any liability for the accuracy
of detail nor for the content or the regularity
of meetings or the continued existence of
the round tables listed. The round tables are of
an informal nature. The addresses published
here are of round tables already in existence
or of persons interested in setting up such a
round table. We do not differentiate and request
that all further information be obtained
from the contacts given. Please understand
that no address can be given by phone, fax
or e-mail.
Märklin assistance in the beginning:
Model railroaders
regularly swap
stories about their
common hobby,
and they get together
to build layouts.
1) Write an e-mail or drop a letter to
Trix if you have formed a round table or are thinking of doing so and
are looking for potential members.
Please send us your full contact
details and don’t forget your postal
address.
2) We will be happy to publish you
complete contact details in the next
possible issue of the Trix Club
News, so that others who would be
interested in joining your round
table can get in touch with you.
Trix acts here purely as an intermediary and offers a platform to
round tables.
Unusual layouts:
the result of the
joint involvement can
produce some spectacular results.
The following Trix round tables exist already:
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Münster, Germany, Postfach 470243, Christian Schmidt,
mist.ms@t-online.de
55129
Mainz, Germany, Ringstr. 11, Stefan Claus,
Tel.: +49 (0) 61 31/6 17 65 90, stefan.claus@online.de und Stephan Türk,
tuerk@mpip-mainz.mpg.de, Internet: www.mist55.de
78647
Trossingen, Germany, Schulstr. 24, Gerhard Kresser,
Tel.: +49 (0) 74 25/32 66 66 und + 49 (0)175/1 61 52 93,
gerhard.kresser@web.de
E-29640
Fuengirola/Malaga, Spain, Postfach 370, Bjørn Beining,
Tel: +34 (0) 661 093 972, bjorn@beining.com
NEW
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Portrait: a demonstration layout by Trix, vintage 1980
Hexagon with circular runs
3.5 square meters (4.2 sq.yd.) are plenty to show off your favorite locos and train consists in
their best light. Proof of this is in an N-gauge layout once created by the Trix layout department
in Nuremberg: a clear concept, a gentle landscape and impressive effects.
Typical scenarios: freight locos at the water tower and the coaling plant, the BB 67300 (right) diesel loco in charge of a freight train.
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Layout portrait
A compact stage: make the trains look good – that is the
point of the track plan and the landscape design of this
N-gauge demonstration layout by Trix.
“A typical demonstration layout with
mountain and level scenery”, characterizes Berndt Weidenbach, Märklin’s layout
builder, the rather unusual hexagon built
on a frame. “It promises interesting operations with the track layout and grips the
interest of the spectator with changes of perspective”. Constructed in 1980 for trade fairs
and exhibitions on an area 2.00 x 1.70 meters
(6'7" x 5'7"), the N-gauge gem was lovingly
restored by Weidenbach and his team ten
years ago. Was it worth the trouble? “Yes, it
is a prime example of a demonstration layout.
Even if the accessories are a bit old, the
design is absolutely sound, and nothing in the
construction is superfluous in any way”.
The layout is conventional analog, each of the
four power circuits is controlled by its own
transformer. The double-track main line with
Trix track has a catenary, the line runs partly
through a long tunnel in the rock face and under the mountain village. A branch line
snakes its way up there through bridges and
over slopes, passes the village and then disappears again after a couple of curves in the
direction of the plain. whenever two passenger trains and a freight train are running on
the layout, there is always a fascinated audience. There are six tracks laid parallel in the
main station. This is not only where the main
line and branch line meet; shunting also goes
on here: one track leads to the freight depot
with its overhead crane, freight shed and road
connection, while further tracks run past the
signal tower to the stabling tracks. One of them
is equipped to service steam locos, with a
water tower, water crane and the coaling
plant with three coal bunkers.
Where there is so little room, a little has to
mean a lot. Example: mountain village. For
the village we only have a little church, a few
scattered houses and a horse-and-cart. Fir
trees, chalets or the tree-trunks awaiting loading signal the mountain world, and there’s
our ideal picture of the mountain village.
Over 30 years ago, the professionals invested
200 hours in constructing the delicate layout,
and it was valued at 5,000 D-marks. Typical
for those days, the landscape is made of
cardboard, sacking and polystyrene elements
Obvious: freight shed, crane, road connection – the entire ensemble immediately signals
that “Lollo” is switching on the neighboring track leading to the freight depot.
Club News presents effective Minitrix modules and layouts
A chance for all those who want to present their miniature works of
art to the greater model railroad community: Trix Club News is starting a series devoted to unusual layouts, attractive modules and
representative groups of modules in N gauge. Harmonious overall
pictures, well-thought-out track plans, lifelike town, country and river
scenes or sophisticated operating concepts – there are many criteria
to help an N-gauge world to the description “unique”. Rolling stock
and track should naturally be from Trix. Send us a brief outline of
your layout, and we’ll publish its details in the Trix Club News.
E-mail: Postal address:
minitrix@3g-media.de
Trix-Club News
c/o 3G Media
Serie Spur N
Löwenstr. 46a
70597 Stuttgart, Germany
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Pretty in miniature: the VT 75 rail car makes a stop at the mountain station.
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Playing enjoyment: the
class 103.1 leaves in
charge of the “Rheingold”, the V 200 arrives
with the local.
Decisive: draft and track laying
It is some consolation that even the experienced model railroad builders sometimes
make cardinal errors. “When the hexagonal N-gauge layout was designed in 1980, the
main line ran through a rock face – and that’s exactly where trains kept on stalling”,
says Berndt Weidenbach, Märklin’s layout designer. Reason: track material attracts
condensation very quickly and if the layout is not run on or cleaned regularly, the
contacts are just lost. On its renovation in 2002, a chunk of the rock wall was inconspicuously cut open. “A tunnel needs a hatch so you can get in and clean it, otherwise
running fun is soon over”, comments Berndt Weidenbach laconically. That’s why for
him an essential part of the work is painstaking planning at the draft stage: “With
us, it’s like this: once the concept is decided, then we know what the layout is going
to look like – and that’s exactly how it’s built”.
A layout for trade fairs is a stage for smart trains; that’s why there are a comparatively
large number of tracks on the Minitrix hexagon. “Almost too many”, concedes the
professional layout builder, who nevertheless approves the track plan in principle:
“It makes sense to have an attractive double track main line, a branch line and a
marshaling yard for shunting operations”. One of the ground rules is not to build front
to back more than 1.20 meters (4’), and if you build along the wall, you can just reach
that far when necessary. “Naturally, the experienced model railroader knows a tunnel
and a staging yard are part of the game, to provide the fascinated spectator with
surprises every so often in the running operations”, continues Weidenbach. The
trickiest part of N-gauge layouts is precision in track-laying: a loco can always run, but
rolling stock is always sensitive to kinks or unevenness – “and if trucks or couplings
aren’t in perfect order, the cars will just come uncoupled”.
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painted with water colors. “Certainly the
experienced model railroader will recognize
Baden-Baden main station, or the signal
tower”, observes Weidenbach – they are after
all classics by Kibri and Vollmer. And the
catenary by Sommerfeldt is only dummy,
though it doesn’t look like it: “That’s for safety reasons – an exhibition demonstration is
over as soon as an uncontrolled and enthusiastic child grabs hold of the catenary wire”.
Naturally Weidenbach would design such an
N-gauge layout today with wooden ribs and
fly-mesh covered with plaster – to say nothing
of taking advantage of the enormous range of
accessories available for N-gauge. “But what
you use is not decisive for the effect a layout
has – playability and character have to be laid
down at the planning stage”. And in this respect, the little Minitrix layout displays an expert’s signature.
Text: Rochus Rademacher
Photographs: Kötzle
Impressions of the track: running operations in the main station (left) are impressive, and the LINT comes into view on the clearly-seen branch line.
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Club info
New cooperation partners
Trix Club members receive very special concessions from our cooperation partner.
Here we introduce to you our partners.
Miniature Park “Kleiner Harz”
Härtsfeld-Museumsbahn
Park und Garten GmbH Wernigerode
Dornbergsweg 27, 38855 Wernigerode, Germany
Tel.: +49 (0) 39 43/40 89 10 11
E-mail: info@wernigeroeder-buergerpark.de
Homepage: www.miniaturenpark-wernigerode.de
Härtsfeld-Museumsbahn e.V.
Dischinger Str. 11, 73450 Neresheim, Germany
Tel.: +49(0) 73 26/57 55 or +49(0)1 72/9 11 71 93
E-mail: information@hmb-ev.de
Homepage: www.hmb-ev.de
Times of opening:
April and October, daily from 9:00 to18:00, from May to September
daily from 9:00 to 19:00.
Times of opening:
Running days May to October every first Sunday in the month,
also on public holidays in May and June and on the second
weekend in August and on the second Sunday in September.
The entire Harz on only 1.5 hectares – that’s just under four acres –
the Miniature Park “Little Harz” makes it possible. Authenticallydetailed miniatures nestle in a landscape designed with hills and
mountain streams and show you the Harz Mountains from a quite
new perspective. Whether it’s the Wernigerode Town Hall, the
Goslar Imperial Palace, and the Martini Church in Halberstadt or
Castle Falkenstein – the tiniest details such as the window-sills, roof
tiles and decorations as well as the coloring on all the exhibits in a
scale of 1:25 were copied directly from the original buildings. The
historic structures in the Harz and in the immediate vicinity are all
reproduced in highly-skilled work by hand. The visitor can even follow
the complicated progress of creating these miniatures in a show
workshop. Model trains based on the Harz Narrow-Gauge Railroad
do their circuits in the grounds of the park. And there are further attractions in the large Wernigerode Municipal Park: around 70 themed
gardens, playgrounds, a pets’ corner, a mini-golf course, several quiet
zones and an observation tower offer entertainment for the entire family.
Photos: Härtsfeld-Museumsbahn
Photos: Miniature Park Wernigerode
» Club benefit: on presenting their Club card, Club members
receive a discount of 1 euro on the entrance fee.
In Neresheim in May, the Härtsfeldbahn reawakens from its winter
rest. The operating hub of the museum railroad – the Central station – is directly at the foot of Ulrich’s Hill, topped by its magnificent
Benedictine abbey. From there, it follows the idyllic Egau Valley
to the Hartsfeldbahn’s terminus at “Sägmühle”. As in days of yore,
trains are again serviced and prepared for work in Neresheim.
Earlier, the legendary “Schättere” had to master a climb up the Alb
between Aalen and the 220 meters (729') higher station at Höllhau
over a series of sharp curves, cuttings, fills, viaducts and tunnels. The
trains ran on to the small Wurttemberg town of Neresheim and
then via Dischingen and into Bavaria to Lauingen and Dillingen.
The charming landscape and the atmospheric rolling stock make
a trip with the museum railroad a real experience. The museum in
the station at Neresheim shows pictures of the olden days, uniforms and notices as well as an authentically-preserved office and
working place.
» Club benefit: on presenting their Club card,
Club members receive a discount of 0.50 euro
on a ticket (out and return trip 6 euro).
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Märklin summer festival in the World of Experience on 27 and 28 July
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Fun for the entire family
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Model railroad technology, fun painting and making things – for
the great summer festival on 27 and 28 July 2012, the Märklin
World of Experience in Göppingen turns into a playing paradise
for the whole family. The youngsters can let off steam on the
bouncy castle and the LGB bicycle, module-building will call
on their creativity, and in the corner, there will be running fun
with Märklin my world models. There will be running fun for
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the grown-up fans too with the impressive N-gauge layouts, and
professionals will give valuable tips on layout construction as well.
Parallel to the main event in the Erlebniswelt, there will be an exclusive guided tour of the main Märklin factory on Friday 27 July
for 60 Club members. All Club members can apply to be included
in the sightseeing, so take your chance to take part and win
(further information is shown on page 4).