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Can you identify these Marklin accessories ?

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Posted by daan on Thursday, December 9, 2004 12:24 PM
Yep I know them. They're made in the late 30's, around the beginning of the second world war. Normally on the station there would be a swastica flag, but logically that's removed.
The signal tower has momentum single pole switches for accesoires.. The jackplugs are single pole banana plughole's.
The clock is a nice touch of the more expensive buildings by maerklin.
The switchtower is also made in a pneumatic version, where pistons can be operated to drive switches by pneumatics. The cheapest one was a bowden cable version, where the levers had connections for steel cable's (like the gas cable of the car) to throw switches...
Quite interesting pieces, but like prewar Lionel is easy to obtain in the USA, these items are relatively easy (but expensive!) to obtain in Europe..
I've even spotted the station without working clock on a garage sale..
Daan. I'm Dutch, but only by country...
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Posted by lionelsoni on Thursday, December 9, 2004 8:15 AM
You might be able to get some help on http://www.worldrailfans.info/forum/index.php . It is an international English-language forum with plenty of Europeans and Maerklin fans.

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Posted by Buckeye Riveter on Thursday, December 9, 2004 6:41 AM
No clue. Sorry.

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Can you identify these Marklin accessories ?
Posted by Anonymous on Wednesday, December 8, 2004 10:09 PM

This small one seems to be a dispatch station? it is about 11" long 6.5" high and 6" wide. It has 6 pushbuttons that hook to some electrical outlets in the back that look like speaker jack holes.The # 13729/6 is under the bottom.


The larger station is 18"long 11" high and 8" wide and has a wind up clock in the tower.There are no numbers on this one.
Both are constructed of a heavy gauge sheet metal and have very little rust and no dings.
Any and all help would be appreciated.................Tim

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