Description
Through the History of Märklin Catalog Title Pages.
The painting adorning this car shows the scenery at a snowy country station in the foothills of the Alps with a mighty mountain in the background early in the afternoon around 2:05. The station name definitely ends with "…dorf", since the station sign on the station building ends with "…rf".The conductor or the station supervisor - also known as the "Rotkäppchen/Red Cap" - stands with the Zp9 signal paddle in his hand on the station platform and greets the locomotive engineer on the class 01 express Pacific - definitely coupled to a high quality heavy express racing through the station. On the opposite track comes a Swiss prototype brown electric locomotive, possibly with a commuter train headed to the Alps.
Prototype: Privately owned type Ibopqs refrigerator car with the title page of the Märklin catalog from 1934.
Model: The car has separately applied roof vents as well as separately applied ladders on the ends.
Length over the buffers 13.4 cm / 5-1/4".
DC wheelset E32376004.
Trix Express wheelset E36660700.
