Hi. I am speed. I have been reading the forum for a while, and now I have a question to you.
I found this beutiful stunner at a garage sale, but I cant find the model name. If you have anymore info about this mean machine let us know. Forexample what 1:1 scale is it based on.
Your photographs are not displaying on my computer.
Click on the "x" boxes and see if the photos open up, worked for me.
Speed, the paint scheme on the engines looks "kinda-sorta" inspired by the Santa Fe's "Warbonnet" diesels, but I'm not aware of any prototype that looked like your model.
If it's HO as you say I'd ask for information over on the "Model Railroader" Forum, it's the place to go for advice on HO and N gauge.
Great garage sale find!
Try here: http://www.philobiblon.com/eisenbahn/links.shtml lots of Marklin links to explore.
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This is a freelance "American Passenger Locomotive" built during the 1950s by Maerklin. I don't think I've seen the two unit locomotive before. The locomotive appears to be loosely (very loosely) based on the Alco DL103 to DL109 series, probably on the Santa Fe No 50 (and 50A).
It was also produced as an articulated passenger train with one articulated "locomotive" and maybe five cars including a round end observation. This was bright red and cream in the version I recall.
This red and cream train appeared on the cover of the 1949 Maerklin HO Catalog (see http://worboys.id.au/catalogs/index.html) and a different version on the 1950 catalog.
A version consisting of three articulated cars, two "observations" and one intermediate car painted overall dark red was sold as a representation of the pre war streamlined diesel trains, successors to the "Flying Hamburger". This appeared in the Maerklin catalog for 1958 and then vanished. I half recall a two car articulated set with pantographs on the inner ends representing a two car electric set used in the Munich area.
While a few members on the Model Railroader forum may be able to help, thse really are vintage toy trains, and a long way from the usual material discussed on that forum.
Peter
Yet another version, catalog number ST800.
This is a "locomotive" and two cars. The locomotive has two pantographs....
https://www.marklin-users.net/forum/posts/t38050-Marklin-ST-800-G-VIDEO-added-to-collection
This video shows a red and cream unit without pantographs.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-8OYVs7NW3k
This set appears in a 1950s catalog as No 3017 (priced at $75 in the USA)
A further edit...
At
http://www.lctm.info/Secciones/Trenes/Biblioteca/Catalogos/index.php
The 1949 catalog can be down loaded as a PDF file. On page 7, a locomotive DL800 is shown. This is described as a diesel, but has pantographs.
The OP's locomotive appears to have provision for pantographs where the DL 800 has them fitted. In 1949, the loco is described as "green" but the red brown may have been issued later.
The catalog also shows the ST 800 in red and cream, but also blue and cream and geen and cream, with additional intermediate cars available.