Märklin news!! E8 units!

henrikH Jan 13, 2014

  1. henrikH

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    WOW that's great, too bad they still use 5 pole motors. hope they come faster than other releases I've waited almost 2 years for a pre order. I think most of the reorganization at marklin is complete so i'll keep my fingers crossed. Also nice to see Marklin recognize AZL as a partner in the American market.
     
  3. BurlingtonRoute

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    It says in the flyer they are using new high powered motors and traction tires.
     
  4. ddechamp71

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    Excellent news! Let's hope these will be completely prototypical like the GG1 for example, and they will be available with an AZL/MTL compatible coupler.

    dom
     
  5. minzemaennchen

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    Cooperation with AZL? Rob/Hans, drop your pants! What's the story?
     
  6. zfuture

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    This cooperation is very exciting for us as well. The Marklin E8A/E9A locomotives will use AZL supplied motors. Sincerely, Hans (AZL)
     
  7. BurlingtonRoute

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    6 wheels, traction tires. It sounds like it would pull. Wonder if there is room for sound?
     
  8. r_i_straw

    r_i_straw Mostly N Scale Staff Member

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  9. shamoo737

    shamoo737 Staff Member TrainBoard Supporter

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    Look at page 171. The Chief has close coupling cars.
     
  10. John Bartolotto

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    Hans and Rob,

    WOW!!! This is fantastic news! It goes to show that you can teach an old toy maker new tricks.

    John
     
  11. minzemaennchen

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    That's H0 if I'm not mistaken
     
  12. BurlingtonRoute

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    I wonder what else could be built on or around that chassis ???
     
  13. r_i_straw

    r_i_straw Mostly N Scale Staff Member

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    A shovel nose, fluted siding, square port holes and you could get something like this.
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  14. RobertAllbritton

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    Keeping Pants On

    Drop pants? Whoa big boy! I mean, usually I like to go out for a nice dinner first!

    Cheers,
    -Rob(A)
    AZL
     
  15. SJ Z-man

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    Skip to PDF page 205 if you don't want to wade thru the catalog.

    Now, the question is: where are the passenger cars :)
     
  16. Don A

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    ...and if you do a little tinkering, you can copy-and-paste the page into Google's Translator program and get a good English (or most any other language) translation.

    ...don
     
  17. Svein-Martin Holt

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  18. eltiti1

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    Hello everybody,

    Is AZL going to sell,also ,the E8's or just Marklin ?

    thank´s

    eltiti1
     
  19. Garth-H

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    ouch at 220 Euro that's 300.00 USD at today's exchange rate , this is going to be expensive for some of us.
     
  20. Garth-H

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    AZL already did E8 in brass. There was an announcement from MTL about an E8 coming, many months ago, but since then, there has been mainly silence, on the topic I surmise, mainly due to China production problems which have plagued many Z scale Manufacturers including MTL.
     

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