Märklin Pre-War Logo Dining Car ~ MITROPA ~ Speiswagen Rd# 352

Description: We try to be Friendly to our international customers especially with our: UPS Standard to Canada,Mitropa was a catering company best known for having managed sleeping and dining cars of different German railways for most of the 20th century. Founded in 1916, the name "Mitropa" is an abbreviation of Mitteleuropa (German for Central Europe). The railway carriages displayed a distinct burgundy-red livery with the Mitropa logo. The Deutsche Reichsbahn, also known as the German National Railway, the German State Railway, German Reich Railway, and the German Imperial Railway, was the German national railway system created after the end of World War I from the regional railways of the individual states of the German Empire. From the establishment of business activities on 1 January 1917, Mitropa held the monopoly on cross-border dining and sleeping car services, including the Balkans Express from Berlin to Constantinople, introduced to replace the CIWL Orient Express trains. The company was founded during WWI on 24 November 1916, as Mitteleuropäische Schlafwagen- und Speisewagen Aktiengesellschaft (German for Central European Sleeping and Dining Cars Incorporated). Its founders included different railway companies of the Central-Powers {Germany & Austria-Hungary who discontinued the service provided by the 'enemy'-owned CIWL. From the establishment of business activities on 1 January 1917, Mitropa held the monopoly on cross-border dining and sleeping car services, including the Balkans Express introduced to replace the CIWL's Orient Express. It was not until 1935 that Märklin came out with their first mass produced 00 / HO scale, later in approximately 1947, the scale was dubbed H0 (or half-0). Trix, a competitor, was equally engaged in the early production of 00 / HO, and Marklin had to rush to present a display layout at the 1935 Leipzing spring toy fair to meet the competition. Märklin came out with a slew of 00 wagons and two electric locomotives: a steam 0-4-0 R 700 and an electric RS 700 of the same wheel arrangement (pictured right: top-to-bottom 1935 versions of RS 700 E-Lok, R 700 Steam, and 3600 AR regular track). Märklin always maintained its historically grown three-rail AC operation, which is more reliable and electrically less complicated than two-rail DC. An exception to this was the “Hamo” line, which ran on 2rail DC. Marklin purchased the Hamo company that made H0 streetcars in the 1964 and equipped some of the Märklin train models with DC 2-rail motors. The production of 0-gauge trains was phased out after WW2 and stopped completely in 1956. From 1947 through 1955 Märklin manufactured their 300 series of die-cast HO freight cars based on pre-war prototypes. These were the company's first attempts at making scale model HO gauge cars. In the years before World War II, Märklin and its competitors in HO had produced only stubby little freight cars in lithographed sheet steel with little detail. These first Märklin HO freight cars were actually tinplate replicas of Märklin's simplest 'O' gauge cars and were offered for sale through 1952. By contrast, the new die-cast cars had incredible surface detail, with every board and rivet cleanly modeled and large numbers of attached detail parts. A total of 36 different cataloged cars appeared in the 300 series, based on ten different body castings. However, because these 36 basic cars had a wide variety of variations in color and construction details, the total number of collectible varieties is actually about 160. An abundance of these trains show up in America, as large quantities were imported and sold in American toy stores and many returning American servicemen stationed in Germany after World War II brought them home or shipped them to the United States. Note #1: I will combine shipping for multiple items. Please purchase the items but do *NOT* pay. I will review and calculate shipping as close as to what I have to pay. I will then forward an invoice with the adjusted shipping. If you do pay ahead of this recalculation, I will refund the shipping difference as part of preparing the items for shipment. Note #2: I want you to be happy with your purchase and would appreciate you leaving positive feedback. In the event you are not, please contact me immediately before leaving feedback so we may resolve it. Thank you. Note #3: If not previously stated item(s) come from a smoke-free environment with cats. Note #4: This is a Grandma & Grandpa shop. We have a 4-business day shipping window (this means that if you pay for your order on a Friday, it may not get shipping until the following Thursday). We do combine shipping especially when we are asked about it.If you want combined shipping, please purchase all your items in one order. If you purchase items in more than one order, send us a message so that we know about the additional items and box the orders together. (When items are bought in multiple orders, we do not always notice they were bought by the same person unless we are notified by the buyer.) We refund extra shipping charges when combined shipping is requested. If we ship items separately, we do not issue a shipping refund.For our international customers: YES!! we do combine shipping. The most economical way for you to buy multiple items from us is for you to send us a list of the items you want to buy. Do not purchase them as they are listed!! (This leads to higher than necessary fees & shipping.) Send us a complete list of all the items you want. Then we will cancel the listings for the items and turn them into a special listing just for you (We'll send you the listing named before making it active). It will have your full purchase with the correct shipping box size and weight. This saves you on the international fees & shipping.-TCA Western Div. - Marklin Trains

Price: 39 USD

Location: London, Ohio

End Time: 2024-12-23T22:47:26.000Z

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