The Northlander – a Märklin Legend Returns

Crocodile, Adler, or Stork's Leg – models inseparably linked with the Märklin brand. Yet there is another model train in the Märklin world that has achieved a similarly legendary status: the Northlander.

The original train, built in Europe in 1957 as a first-class TEE unit, began operating in Canada in 1978, running from Toronto deep into the northern regions. Märklin released a limited special model of this train that same year—a model that soon became a sensation among collectors, commanding remarkable prices. In 1998, five Northlander cars returned to Europe. Märklin supported this spectacular event and ultimately secured the train’s place among the brand’s most distinctive and storied prototypes.

This new, finely detailed Insider Club model 2024 now continues and elevates this remarkable European-Canadian train story with perfect authenticity.

Prototype: Ontario Northland Railway (ONR), Canada (former class RAm TEE diesel powered train) "Northlander" diesel powered train. 4-part set in azure/yellow basic paint scheme. 1 motor car, 1 compartment car, 1 dining car, 1 open seating car with a control cab. Road number 1981. The train looks as it did in the Eighties.

Highlights

• Prototypical tooling changes based on the new tooling for the RAm TEE.
• Heavy metal construction.
• World of Operation mfx+ digital decoder with extensive sound and light functions.
• Factory-installed interior lighting can be controlled digitally.
• Factory-installed engine room and cab lighting can be controlled digitally.
• Various classification lights on the ends of the train can be controlled digitally.
• Controlled, high-efficiency propulsion with a flywheel in the motor car, 4 axles powered.

Model: This is a 4-part unit. It has an mfx+ digital decoder and extensive sound and light functions. It also has controlled, high-efficiency propulsion with a flywheel in the motor car, centrally mounted. Two of three driving wheelsets in the two 3-axle trucks are powered using cardan shafts. Traction tires.

There is factory-installed interior lighting in the compartment, dining, and open seating cars. Triple headlights and dual red marker lights change over with the direction of travel. They and the interior lighting will work in conventional operation and can be controlled digitally. The interior lighting in the baggage area of the motor car can be controlled separately in digital operation. The engine room lighting in the motor car and cab lighting in the motor car and control cab of the open seating car can all be controlled separately in digital operation. The classification lights on the ends of this train can be controlled digitally. Maintenance-free, warm white and various colored LEDs are used for the lighting.

There are multiple conductor special couplings with guide mechanisms between the train units for a continuous electrical connection of the entire train. There is pickup shoe changeover with current supply depending on the direction of travel from the motor car or the open seating car with a control cab, depending on which car is at the front of the train. There are many separately applied details. The two ends of the train have a Scharfenberg coupler (no function) modelled. The minimum radius for operation is 437.5 mm / 17-1/8". The train can be run on Radius 1 if you ignore the clearance profile.

Total length of the powered train over the couplers approximately 113 cm / 44-1/2".