Many years ago my father received 4 locomotives and some rail cars as a gift from his parents and now these items were pass down to me. Since I am using Märklin equipment the items which were passed down to me would not work on my existing system since it was a Trix Express system.

I thought it would be interesting to see what it would take to convert them in order to run on a Märklin system. I have converted a BR24 steam locomotive and a V36 diesel locomotive so far.

Both items are digitally controlled. Below are some photos of the V36 after it was converted from Trix Express to a format compatible for Märklin systems.

Conversion of the units involved replacing the motor, wheels, pickup shoe and adding a decoder for digital operation. The process is slow and the results are rather impressive for only making use of 3 pole DC motors.