CLUB NEWS 3 2013 Exclusively for Club members Minitrix: modules to grab your attention Overview: special models for anniversary Class 45 with 7 freight cars: Germany’s celebrants most powerful of all in H0 Insights: Trix production is running Contents Trix-Clubnews 04 / 2012 Issue 03 / 2013 Detail News: Trends Intermodellbau / DVD Annual Chronicles 2013 – part 1 / Questionnaire on era preference for Annual Cars ................................. 4 Top models: The mighty class 45 in H0 exclusively for Club members ... 6 Delivery dates: Product manager Claus Ballsieper in conversation ... 10 Spotlight: Tiniest lettering on the class 18.6 ........................................ 12 Gigantic: the class 45 and freight car set as a further 2013 Club model. 18 Scene Snapshot: High summer in Altenstein – a Trix Express layout tells the realistic life story of a Franconian village ............................... 13 Exclusive: Anniversary models for loyal Club members .................... 16 Scene setters: How tractors plow and haul wood in the fields and forests: the great outdoors from the N-Club International .......... 18 Field work: on the other side of the embankment. Service 23 Summary: A home from home for model railroaders – Trix round tables stand for exchange of ideas, experience and joint activities ... 22 Cooperation partners: Enjoy a trip to the south Tyrolean railroad world in Rabland near Merano and the museum railroad of Schönheide ..... 23 Editorial ..................................................................................................... 3 New Club partner: experience the Museum Railroad Schönheide. Imprint Editorial 3G Media GmbH: Peter Waldleitner (editor-in-chief), Club News is an exclusive part of this publication for Trix Club members. Lars Harnisch, Rochus Rademacher, Stefanie Hirrle Subject to changes and delivery options for all the products mentioned here. All rights reserved. Reprinting in whole or in part only with prior Layout written permission. This also applies for recording in electronic databases Gerhard Baumann GmbH & Co. KG Publisher and duplication on CD-ROMs. The editor is not liable for any unsolicited Gebr. Märklin & Cie. GmbH Photographs submission of manuscripts, photographs or illustrations. Stuttgarter Str. 55 – 57 Unless indicated otherwise: Trix Club The following enclosures are sent out with Club mailing 03/2013: Trix 73033 Göppingen, Germany Title: H. Seehuber Club News 03/2013, Märklin Magazin 03/2013, Annual DVD 2013 (part 1), Märklin Customer Clubs No liability accepted for any dates given. brochure summer new releases 2013, order forms for Club model class Silvia Römpp (responsible) E 198516 – 03 2013 © by Gebr. Märklin 45 and freight car set, catalog 2013/2014. 2 Trix-Clubnews 04 / 2012 Dear Club members, The second half of this model railroad year starts with an im- posing model highlight: as a further exclusive model for Club members in 2013, Trix is producing the magnificent class 45 with new-design boiler in H0 – a top-grade icon of railroad history, which was the most powerful steam locomotive ever built in 6 Germany. So that the giant can do justice to its reputation, there is also a matching set of seven different freight cars. Apart from this central subject, the current issue also reflects on the latest special models for long-time Club members and the outstanding 13 lettering applied to Minitrix Club model 18 612. And finally, we talk to Trix Product Manager Claus Ballsieper on the supply situation for new models. It gives us particular pleasure to illustrate the imaginative designs of the worlds of N-gauge; we have discovered an astonishing variety of tractor scenes alone on Stefan Wörner’s modules. And the portrait of a very special Trix Express layout is intended to encourage the telling of little stories with situations taken from life. The service section informs you of the latest contact details of the Trix round tables and about new cooperation partners. To finish with, we want you to look forward to the top event of the year: from 13 to 15 September, the entire model railroad community will be making for Göppingen for the 30th IMA. We hope you enjoy reading your Club News. Your Trix Club team Summer time: day-to-day on a Trix Express layout. Your service numbers Queries about technology, repairs Internet and spare parts / complaints www.trix.de Customer Service Telephone Monday – Friday club.trix.de from 10 a.m. – 6.30 p.m. Club hotline Moving? Telephone inland: 0 90 01 / 6 08-2 22 (49 cents a Telephone Monday – Friday minute from the German fixed phone network, Please inform us in good time of your new from 10 a.m. – 6.30 p.m. mobile tariffs may differ) address so we will know where we can Telephone: + 49 (0) 71 61 / 6 08 - 2 13 Telephone from abroad: + 49 (0) 71 61 / 6 08 - 2 22 reach you. A forwarding address at the Fax: + 49 (0) 71 61 / 6 08 -3 08 Fax: +49 (0) 71 61 / 6 08-2 25 Post Office unfortunately will not suffice. E-mail: [email protected] E-mail: [email protected] Thank you for your cooperation! 3 Trix-Clubnews 03 / 2013 Speechless: model rail- Exhibition trends from Dortmund roaders admired the Trix layout with wide eyes and camera lenses. Club members were welcomed Powerful models impress at the stand with a cap as a memento of the exhibition Superb new models, fine layouts and almost According to exhibition surveys, a high pro- (see below). innumerable model railroaders: once again, portion of the visitors are active model rail- the Trix and Märklin stand at the Intermodell- roaders, and that could be seen in the siege bau 2013 in Dortmund was number of the Minitrix layout where the Minitrix one attraction again for a great building kit of the mighty Dammtor station number of the 88,000 visitors That was the focus of all eyes. Especially encourag- is no great surprise: according ing for all model railroad fans: many children to visitor surveys, the model with their parents, school classes and young railroad has proven to be the people crowded around the layouts and very top favorite with the public took home information on the current range in Dortmund – and Trix is a of models. The youngsters’ range is popular firm favorite in the model railroad too, as Eric-Michael Peschel, Event Marketing world. The Club team welcomed Manager, confirms: “The play area at the Trix Club members personally, and as stand was well attended and many parents with an exhibition present, they received a their children stayed for half an hour and sporty cotton cap bearing the silver Trix more. Children are becoming more interested Club legend. in model railroads again”. Photos: C. Dick, Intermodellbau, Kötzle, PW 4 Trix-Clubnews 03 / 2013 Detail News & Facts Survey Trix Club Annual Cars Which era would you like? By tradition, the Minitrix, Trix H0 and Trix Express Annual Cars repre- sent era I. And there is a good reason for this: railroad construction by the private and provincial railroads up to about 1925 rejoiced in a huge variety of vehicle types, color schemes and lettering. But this pref- erence is by no means law – and that’s why the Trix product manage- ment wants to know the views of Trix Club members: • Should the Annual Car in future continue to be drawn from era I prototypes? • Should there be alternation year by year in eras? • If another era is wished for over a longer period of time, then which one? Voting takes place online in the Club area under club.trix.de under the heading “Model railroad” (Modellbahn). You can let us know your preference at any time up to July 31, 2013 conveniently with no more than a mouse click. Era I: renowned for attractive Annual Car prototypes. Trips canceled Visible pleasure The trips announced in the Club News 02/2013 to Part 1 of the DVD of the year 2013 “A year with Trix” takes Scandinavia to the ore railroad and to Bochum to the Club member on a visit to steam loco 18 612, prototype the musical “Starlight Express” have unfortunately loco for the N gauge Club model for 2013. One article features had to be canceled. The cancellations were due to the popular class 218 and a portrait of the company da Vinci insufficient registrations, so that minimum partici- Defet Pinsel relates the story behind the Trix H0 museum car pant numbers could not be reached. We wish to for 2013. There is an explanatory article giving thank all Club members for their interest and apol- you tips on how best to weather a model ogize for having to take this step. Nevertheless, V 100, richly illustrated with running those who would like to enjoy “Starlight Express” scenes, and to round everything off, still have an advantage: Club members receive a three friends present their N-gauge reduction of 10 percent on the net prices of admis- modular layout. The DVD is sent out sion tickets by quoting PIN 123953 when they with this mailing. A cover to match the make a reservation. Tickets and info are available DVD is available for downloading in under +49 (0)2 11/7 34 41 20. the Club area under club.trix.de. From Augsburg to the IMA in Göppingen 2013 Special train hauled by the V 200 The proper way to arrive at the 30th International Model Photo: MIGA Augsburg Railway Exhibition (September 13 to 15, 2013) in Göppin- gen: on September 15th, a V 200-powered special train will leave Augsburg main station for Göppingen between 7:00 and 7:30, arriving back in Augsburg at about 19:30. The price is 29.50 euro. Tickets from MIGA Augsburg (www.miga-augsburg.de), Augsburger Lokschuppen (www.augsburger-lokschuppen.de) and Schweickhardt A bit strong: the RTS V 200 powers the special train to the IMA Göppingen.