| Märklin Catalog Car for 1935
Privately owned type Ibopqs refrigerator car with the title page of the Märklin catalog from 1935.
Source: www.maerklin.de
Through the History of Märklin Catalog Title Pages.
The painting adorning this car shows a larger passenger station with a massive approach track complex, including the station hall that can be recognized at the upper edge of the image. Various trains wait on the approach tracks at Signal Zp 9, for the departure signal from the conductor or the station supervisor – also affectionately known as the Rotkäppchen/Red Cap – to the locomotive engineer. Naturally, the flagman for this had to have set the exit signal to Go - Signal Hp 1. On the rearmost track stands a class 95 locomotive (former Prussian T20) with a passenger train. The neighboring track hosts probably the largest - and for many model train operators unattainable - highlight from Märklin in the Thirties: The Crocodile! It may have been born at the time of the last catalog title from 1933, that is designed and developed, but it learned how to run in 1934 on a few 0 Gauge and 1 Gauge layouts. Like a little crocodile in the open wilderness. It has a light brown express train coupled to it – could it have been a Pullman Express – that the lizard was supposed to pull over the Gotthard? In the foreground of the painting stand two classic standard design steam locomotives, one in the classic black/red, one in a blue paint scheme. The latter has a blue express train to pull. Could that be the international cars of the CIWL? At this time there was no blue locomotive either in the prototype or in the Märklin assortment. However, the painting still has a lot more for the observer to discover and interpret! Give free rein to your imagination. |
