marklin Scale 1 track

[Anonymous]

I will build a garden railroad this spring. I like Marklin and got a
Christmas starter set. I set it up outside and few days later saw that
the track was starting to rust. I called Marklin and was told that
the track although stainless steel will rust and that the swithches will
rust as well. I felt that Marklin false advertises that their Maxi sets are
also for outdoors. Has anyone build a Marklin outdoor railroad using their
track?

Thank you for your time.

Krastan
New Mexico

[bman36]

Hi there,
Welcome to the forum! Stainless steel is not supposed to rust. It will corrode over a long period of time but not like what you described. Stainless, really??? Hmmmmmm. The majority of us use either LGB or Aristo brass track. Hope you enjoy the forum. Later eh...Brian.

[Anonymous]

Thanks for the fast reply. I also didn't expect stainless steel to rust, but ...
Cheers and thanks again.
Krastan

[Curmudgeon]

Stainless CAN rust. The term "stainless" can cover a wide variety of compounds.
Virtually ALL the stainless on my boat rusts.
As does the copper and brass.
Soviets had a nasty habbit of using really pXXs poor quality in their stuff.
I wonder if that type of stainless is used by the outfit in question?
TOC

[cacole]

I have some AristoCraft stainless steel turnouts and track, and they are showing no signs of rusting or corrosion after being outdoors for two years now, so the Marklin stainless must really be a different composition.

[bman36]

QUOTE: Originally posted by Curmudgeon

Stainless CAN rust. The term "stainless" can cover a wide variety of compounds.
Virtually ALL the stainless on my boat rusts.
As does the copper and brass.
Soviets had a nasty habbit of using really pXXs poor quality in their stuff.
I wonder if that type of stainless is used by the outfit in question?
TOC

Good question. I'm by no means a metallurgist (sp?) but the stainless steel parts on my semi show no signs of any rust until the Winter salt hit it. Can there be degrees of stainless? That is a %? Maybe the track Marklin uses is a lower % grade. The stainless on the semi must be of high grade because only the edges will start to brown in the salt. Things that make you go hmmmmmm. Later eh...Brian.

[Anonymous]

I am amazed that I cannot find anyone who has seen a Marklin Scale 1
garden layout. Maybe, because the price is so high no one would put it
outside.
I wonder if someone from Europe could comment on this.
Thank you all for the warm wellcome.
Cheers to all,
Krastan

[ondrek]

my wife has a Marklin Maxi. we run it outside, but on Aristo track. never bought any of the marklin track, it was too expensive. the engines are too, thats why we bought it used.

Kevin