The guide for beginners and returners
People who were once able to experience the magic of a Märklin model railroad keep this experience in their memories.
All beginnings are - not so difficult! Would you like to relive your old hobby? Perhaps you still have a large number of earlier Märklin products and are wondering if you can still use them all? With our guide, (re)getting started is no problem. In addition, we have lots of advice and tricks for expansion and digitization.
Tip: With our book for beginners and our YouTube series We build a model railroad, you get all the essential info on getting started again and the digital world. Of course, we also offer a huge selection of track plans for beginner layouts.
Simple and easy to understand (Currently only in German)
Get started now. Here, newcomers and those just starting out will find lots of tips and tricks for the Märklin model railroad.
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Here you will find numerous track plans for the expansion of your model railway layout. Here you will find numerous track plans of various degrees of difficulty for the expansion of your model railway layout. You will receive exact information about the space required and track material. (only in German)
Find track layouts nowEarlier traction transformers are designed for a mains voltage of 220 V. Today we have a slightly higher mains voltage of 230 V in our household networks in Europe. This could lead with a certain decoder generation to the fact that with simultaneous occurrence of different tolerance conditions it could come to damage of the decoders when using such an old driving transformer. However, all our decoders used in today's H0 models are designed to be so voltage-resistant that there are no longer any problems here. Therefore, if you prefer to buy new models and not on the second-hand market, you are on the safe side here.
The philosophy behind the geometry of C-track is so different in detail from M-track that there can be no simple comparison list here. To convert an old M track layout into a C track layout, it is best to use a track planning program (e.g. Märklin software "Track Planning 2D/3D", version 9.0). The M-track layout is drawn in one layer. Now you can draw the desired C-track layout in a second layer as congruent as possible above it.
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