Even tough Märklin has announced the new construction of this 1-gauge model not until end of January 2019, its delivery startet end of mai 2019. Das Maerklin-model in scale 1/32 with Article-Numerber 55681 in Europa has a list price of 3499,99 Euro. The model has a lenght of 626 millimeters and a weight of 6,5 kg.
The original is one of the third series of swiss crocodile-locomotives (type Ce 6/8 III ) which was delivered in 1926 and 1927 to swiss railway-company SBB. Märklin realised the locomotive with the official operation number 14305 in state of the years 2018/2019 which is in 2019 sometimes on special rides in switzerland. This museum-locomotive is owned by the "Stiftung Historisches Erbe der SBB" (SBB Historic) and is in operation and maintenance bei the society "Verein Krokodil 14305".
00:00 greeting and unboxing
01:48 Dismantling the transport sheet
02:32 locomotive from below (description of the individual parts)
03:53 Rerail the locomotive
04:11 dimensions and prototype information
04:55 unlocking pantograph
05:04 Automatic registration at the digital center (plug & play)
06:32 First model details and lighting functions
08:03 View of the driver's cab and moving transition plate
08:35 Electrical telex coupling with sound
08:59 Motorized pantographs with sound
09:20 more sounds of the model
11:17 Different station announcement depending on the direction of travel
12:13 Multi-stop announcement with 11 different stops
13:30 Small test drive with sound
14:45 Removable roof with a view into the locomotive
15:31 Demonstration of energy buffers and brake squeal
16:30 Starting and braking close up
There are only small differences to the actual state of the original locomotive because Märklin realized the painting of the model like railway epoch 4. The main differences to the 2019 original are handle bars in yellow (instead of black), lamp casings in grey (instead of black) and the revision labeling (in white instead of yellow).
The model has a mulitprotocol-digital-decoder for mfx, DCC and Motorola and also can be operated with an analogous AC-transformer. With mfx the model has 32 digital functions - who are all to see and hear in my video.
For a story in the german journal "Eisenbahnmagazin" I had end of mai 2019 a loan production model from Märklin - on this occasion I also made this very detailed unboxing-review-video for my KZfaq-Channel. Sorry, that this video only is spoken in german language, but you can try the automatic subtitle translation of KZfaq. Just beware the subtitles are not always accurate.