Marklin HO Train Set with Dining car and Electric Engine *SOLD*

Marklin HO Train Set with Dining car and Electric Engine for sale

Beautiful and vintage Marklin HO set with original boxes.  The engine is more recent, likely late 80s, and the cars are earlier.

Inside the passenger and dining cars are beautiful small figures with wonderful detailing.  Execution on the set is impressive and the overall combination will either make a nice running set, near new old stock, or a great keepsake.  Marklin has always produced impressive toys, and the wheel and piston detailing on the engine shines.

Cars have imprinted “Schlafwagen” (seeping car), “1 and 2” for first and second class seating, and “Speisewagen” (restaurant wagon), also Tee-Aussichtswagen (Observation Wagon, tea) .

Gebruder Maerklin (Marklin) Goppingen, Germany
1859 to date
Founder: Theodor and his wife, Caroline Maerklin
Specialty: Originated as a maker of doll-sized tinplate kitchenware. When sons took over the business in 1888, firm name was changed to Gebruder Maerklin. Branched out to a variety of enameled tinplate boats, carousels, aeronautical toys. Unsurpassed in production of clockwork, steam, and electric trains. Introduced first standardized tinplate tracks in 1891. Maerklin switched to plastic train sets in the late 1950s.