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Green, Blue, Dark Blue: Colours of Märklin Tradition
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The colour schemes for wagon boxes.
Green years 1957-64 (sleeping car 4029, 1964), blue years 1965-69 (tipping wagon 4513, 1966), dark blue from 1970 (refrigerated wagon 4508, year 1973).
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Accessories in the dark blue era (with old Märklin logo - upper case letters), years 1970 to around 1975.
track 5101 (1971), home signal 7041 (1970), light home signal 7339 (1974 - logo with white contour letters).
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Passenger coaches in dark blue boxes (with new Märklin logo - lower case letters), years 1973-1988; transparent window introduced in 1976.
Belgian couchettes car 4116 (full cardboard box, 1987), TEE compartment car 4085 (1981, blue & white) passenger car 4107 (1981), FS sleeping car 4152 (cardboard with transparent window, 1980).
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New Styles: from Red to White
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Red-blue boxes for locomotives, with transparent window, years 1974-86.
FS 236 diesel engine 3142 (1983)
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The new white boxes, introduced in 1988
and still used today. Refrigerated wagon 4425 (1994) and D-Wagen 4112 (2000).
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