Model News 2025
TEE Model Railway News 2025
Let’s start with the smallest gauge. Märklin’s Z gauge electric locomotive 103 113-7 DB (# 88546) is coming onto the market as a museum locomotive. The showpiece in TEE livery is elegant, dynamic, fast and equipped with groundbreaking technology.
With the N gauge, the new electric locomotive CC 6530 (#16612) SNCF from Minitrix is worth buying. This locomotive pulled high-quality passenger trains, including the TEE Aquitaine from Paris-Austerlitz to Bordeaux-Saint-Jean. Carriage sets to match this locomotive are available under the numbers 15691 and 15692.
A built-in digital decoder and sound generator for operation with mfx and DCC and an engraved train sign on the front of the locomotive round off this impressive model.
Let’s stay with the famous CC 6500 and change the gauge to H0. Jouef H0 is launching the SNCF electric locomotive CC6526 in Era IV. The special model for 80 years of Jouef is delivered in attractive packaging (coffret anniversaire).
The prototype of the SNCF CC 6526 “Le Capitole” comes from the Era IV with Co’Co’ wheel arrangement, built from 1970 (CC 6501-6578).
The Model arrived at 22/01/2025 at 11 am and the package was huge enough with the original cardboard (Karton) from Jouef.
Another brandnew model is available from Arnold. It is the SNCF, electric locomotive CC 6502 “Mistral” in silver original livery, Ep. IV also equipped with sound-decoder:
The CC 6500 was, together with the CC 40100 [] and diesel CC 72000, the first generation of the ‘Nez Cassé’ family of locomotives.
Roco is releasing a new variant of the BB-15056. The 15000 is an authentic representative of French railway history. The BB 22200 series forms a series family with the BB 15000. The locomotives have the “Nez cassé” (broken nose) front shape typical of the 1960s and 1970s, which was coined by the designer Paul Arzens.
https://www.roco.cc/rde/7500136-elektrolokomotive-bb-15056-sncf.html
Prototypical roof design with all details
■ Delicate pantograph design
■ Gran Confort color scheme
The machines are the first French mainline locomotives with two driver’s cabs that have only one pantograph and are designed for AC 25 kV. Their regular services included the TEE trains “Goethe”, “Iris”, Klèber and “Stanislas”.
The next Roco set with the legendary 103-113 is also exciting, the AKE Rheingold as a historical legacy in H0!
In close cooperation with AKE-Eisenbahntouristik, a selection of the different vehicles from the existing fleet will be released in 2025 as a one-off special series by Roco. The compartment cars included in the 3 sets represent a representative cross-section of all variants of the AKE Rheingold.
Differences in the paintwork and lettering that are hardly noticeable at first glance have been taken into account down to the smallest detail and as a complete set you then reach an incredible 10 cars (can also be increased to 13 to 14 cars):
https://www.roco.cc/rde/7500134-elektrolokomotive-103-113-7-db.html
In addition, the AKE Rheingold is also available from Arnold under HN4507 and HN4508 AKE, 3-part addition in N gauge:
Let’s stay in N gauge. An interesting new product is a 5-piece set of the newly restored Mediolanum with the Gran Confort cars GC type 1969 of the FS from Pirata with TV logo for era 4:
Set 5 carrozze GC tipo 1969, TEE Mediolanum livrea TEE, logo TV, FS ep.IV
Manufacturer: PiRATA, Item number: PI6190
Scale: N gauge 1:160 CHF 322.-
The last new product I’ll come back to is the Re 4/4 I, which Piko now also offers in green with the TEE logo (05.96886). This model, which was produced exclusively as a Swiss Edition, is available and already ready for collection.
In addition, a BR 112 ex. E 10 and the long-awaited E 410 (Europe locomotive) from Piko will also be released in 2025:
Electric locomotive 112 311 DB+ DSS PluX22 Ep IV DC
Manufacturer: Piko, article number: 21716
Electric locomotive BR E 410 DB + DSS PluX22 Ep III DC
Manufacturer: Piko, article number: 21000
Why it was long awaited: With the BR E 410, PIKO (among others) is bringing the legendary “Europa locomotives” to the H0 tracks – locomotives that once revolutionized cross-border rail traffic.
At the end of the 1960s, the DB put five multi-system locomotives into service with the E 410 series. Despite being taken out of service in 2002, two of the “Europa locomotives” have been preserved as museum pieces. They can be admired in the DB Museum Koblenz-Lützel and in the German Museum of Technology in Berlin.
From Jouef at last a stunning CC 72000, the locomotive CC 72084 in blue plus Carmillon logo of Epoch V.
From Arnold HN2646S / Pirata FS, Elektrolokomotive der Reihe E.656, ’50. Jubiläumsausgabe’
Roco 7500149 H0 E-Lok 1044.53, ÖBB, Ep. IV
E-Lok 1044.53, ÖBB
In the 1970s, the Austrian locomotive industry developed a new high-performance electric locomotive using thyristor technology to meet the increasing performance requirements in rail transport like TEE Mediolanum or Blauer Enzian. Between 1976 and 1995, the ÖBB purchased 217 locomotives of the 1044 series. With an output of 5,120 kW and a top speed of 160 km/h, these four-axle machines shaped the image of modern rail transport in Austria for decades.
Anhang: TEE Modellbahn Datenbank
Trans Europ Express TEE Models
All Images with kindly request from Reseller Catalogs.
Model List Overview 15:
- Märklin’s Z gauge electric locomotive 103 113-7 DB (# 88546)
- Minitrix CC 6530 (#16612) Aquitaine
- Jouef H0 SNCF electric locomotive CC6526 Le Capitole HJ2452
- Arnold. SNCF, electric locomotive CC 6502 “Mistral HN2650
- Roco variant of the BB-15056. #7500136
- Roco set with the legendary 103-113 as the AKE Rheingold 7500134
- Arnold AKE Rheingold HN4507 and HN4508 AKE
- Pirata Set 5 carrozze GC tipo 1969, TEE Mediolanum livrea TEE, logo TV, FS ep.IV
- Pirata Set 3 carrozze GC Tipo 1969, IC Lemano, TEE, Logo TV, FS ep. IV
- Piko Re 4/4 I green, TEE logo (#05.96886) Swiss Exclusive.
- Piko Electric locomotive 112 311 DB+ DSS PluX22 Ep IV DC #21716
- Piko Electric locomotive BR E 410 DB + DSS PluX22 Ep III DC #21000
- Jouef at last a stunning CC 72000, the locomotive CC 72084 HJ2621
- Arnold HN2646S E.656, 5. Bauserie, blau/grau-Farbgebung
- Roco 7500149 H0 E-Lok 1044.53, ÖBB, Ep. IV
Nicht zum Druck! Interner Gebrauch, Max Kleiner
1. Alle Modelle gelistet.
1775 Jouef Triebwagen RGP 825 1957 X 2781/ XR 7779 TEE RGP I,decoración rojo/beige,ép.III,P:2024/25 F H0 Parsifal HJ2461
2030 Jouef Lok BB 67600 1999 SNCF 67613 NEM660(21-pinMTC),Capitole,Ep.VI,187mm,P:2025 F H0 Mistral HJ2464
1778 Jouef Lok CC-21001 1969 SNCF CC-21001 Grand Confort bi,ép.IV,21pin MTC,P:2024 F H0 Cisalpin HJ2454
2125 Jouef GC 61 87 ff 1964 Restaurant etc 3 voitures,GranConfort87,A8u,A8tu,Vru,P:2025 F H0 Le Kléber HJ4191
2126 Jouef/Hornby Lok CC 72000 1989 SNCF 72056 «La Bourboule»,livrée bleu logo,Ep.V, P:2025 F H0 Jules Verne HJ2621
2127 Jouef/Hornby Lok CC 72000 1999 SNCF 72084 «Carmillon»,ép.V»,livrée bleu logo,Ep.V,P:2025 F H0 Jules Verne HJ2622
2131 Arnold Lok CC 72000 1967 SNCF 72071 Blason „Marseille”,original livery,soundS,NEM! F N Arbalete/Jules Verne HN2651
2134 Arnold Lok CC 21002 1973 CC 21002 livrée«Betón»logo«beffara»,ép.IV-V,P:2025 F N Mistral HN2648
2135 Arnold Lok CC 21002 1973 CC 21003 bicourant CC,livrée argent,ép.IV-V,P:2025 F N Cisalpin HN2649
2136 Arnold Wag 61 80 ff 1986 TEE Avmz207.. 3tlg.,1xARmz217,Apmz122,Avmz207,P:2025 D N Rembrandt HN4387
2123 Roco Set E 103 2005 103 113-7 P:2025! 10 Wagons 6200120 ff, PluX22,Z-21 D H0 AKE-Rheingold 7500134
2105 Piko Lok BR 184 1968 E 410 001/2? 4 Pantos,195mm,BR E 410 DB Ep.III, P:2025 D H0 TEE 33 Parsifal 21000
My List 2025
Spur Z – Märklin Art.Nr. 88415 BR E 10.12 E 10 1266 Rheingold der DB, MHI
Spur TT – Roco Elektrolokomotive 111 087-3, DB
Spur N – Fleischmann 7370007 N Diesellok V 200 126 der DB
Spur N – MiniTrix 16721 N E-Lok BR 111 der DB 111 102-0
Spur N – Minitrix 16612 E-Lok CC 6500 SNCF | Ep.IV | Spur N CC 6530 Aquitaine
Spur N – Arnold HN2650S – E-Lok CC 6502 ‘Mistral’, SNCF, Ep.IV, DC-Sound
Spur N – Arnold 2648: SNCF, elektrische Mehrsystemlokomotive CC 21002, „Béton“
Spur N – Arnold SNCF elektrische Mehrsystemlok CC 21003 silber Ep. IV DCS
Spur H0 – Jouef SNCF E-Lok CC 6526 Le Capitole in Geschenkbox Ep. IV
Anhang: TEE Modellbahn Datenbank
Trans Europ Express TEE Models
AI Experiment
Google Gemini is a family of large language models (LLMs) offering state-of-the-art AI capabilities created by Google AI.
In this blog, I will explain how to use Gemini API to web scrape any site and to extract the necessary information like links or model information for the blog above.
For example, let’s scrape all the TEE models of 2025 and links of manufacturer for types, brand and news from the following sites:
const DEF_llmfunc =
'def llm_function(query): '+LF+
' response = model.generate_content(query) # Generate response '+LF+
//' st.markdown(response.text) # Print it out using streamlit ';
' print(response.text) # Print it out using NOT streamlit ';
const DEF_GEMiniInput5 =
'def read_http_input(): '+LF+
' # dictionary of all the links to be webscraped. '+LF+
' # You can add more if you want to '+LF+
' links = { '+LF+
' "1":["TEE","https://my6.code.blog/2025/01/17/model-news-2025/"], '+LF+
//' "2":["BIRAC","https://birac.nic.in/cfp.php"] '+LF+
' "2":["EUROP","https://www.tee-classics.ch/"] '+LF+
' } '+LF+
' for i in range(1,3): '+LF+
' url = links[str(i)][1] # Get URL of each organization '+LF+
' r = requests.get(url) # Request for data '+LF+
' soup = BeautifulSoup(r.text, ''html.parser'') # Parse the HTML elements '+LF+
' data = soup.text # Get raw data in string format '+LF+
' link = soup.find_all(''a'', href=True) # list of all links on site in htmlform '+LF+
' l = "" '+LF+
' for a in link: '+LF+
' l = l +"\n"+ a[''href''][1:] # Get the actual links '+LF+
' # Create a query '+LF+
' query = data + "name of organization is"+links[str(i)][0]+ "Jumbled links of ' +
' calls for proposals:"+l+"\n Create a table with the following columns: TEE Models '+
' along with respective link, Year, Release and name of the Manufactor." '+LF+
' llm_function(query) ';
Then I run the AI Scraper from the console of maXbox5:
procedure Gemini_PySolution(loc: string);
begin
with TPythonEngine.Create(Nil) do begin
//pythonhome:= PYHOME64;
loaddll;
autofinalize:= false;
try
Execstring('from math import sqrt');
Execstring('import streamlit as st');
Execstring('from bs4 import BeautifulSoup');
Execstring('import os, requests');
Execstring('import google.generativeai as genai');
// Execstring('from PIL import Image; import os, math, collections');
Execstr('import io, sys');
//Execstring('import plotly.express as px');
Execstr(PY_count);
Execstr(DEF_llmfunc);
Execstr(DEF_GEMiniInput5);
execstr('output = io.StringIO()')
execstr('sys.stdout = output');
execstr('st.title("Proposal Calls") # Title for the page');
execstr('os.environ[''GOOGLE_API_KEY'']='+loadfile3(exepath+'geminiapikey.txt')+'');
execstr('genai.configure(api_key = os.environ[''GOOGLE_API_KEY''])');
execstr('model = genai.GenerativeModel(''gemini-pro'')');
{execstr('model = genai.GenerativeModel(''gemini-1.5-flash'')');
execstr('response = model.generate_content("Why is the earth blue?")');
execstr('print(response.text) '); }
execstr('(read_http_input()) ');
println(stringreplace(evalstr('output.getvalue().strip()'),
#10,#13#10,[rfReplaceAll, rfIgnoreCase]));
except
raiseError;
finally
UnloadDll;
Free;
end;
end;
end;
And the result was from create the query;
mX5🐞 executed: 22/01/2025 15:39:49 Runtime: 0:0:18.212 Memload: 75% use
4 Editorial
6 Genèse des CC 6500/21000
14 CC 6500 – De nouvelles machines pour de nouveaux horizons
14 Les CC 6501 à 6538 taillées pour la grande vitesse
24 Les CC 6539 à 6559 : Savoyardes par vocation
28 Les CC 6560 à 6574 : la polyvalence avant tout34 – La carrière des CC 6500
36 L’âge d’or sur l’artère impériale
40 Une vallée pour royaume
44 Une suprématie contestée
46 Le TGV change la donne
50 L’aventure de la grande vitesse au Sud-Ouest
58 S’il n’en reste qu’un
64 Les livrées des CC 6500
76 CC 21000 – Les «trois» mousquetaires bicourant
86 Les CC 6500 préservées
96 Bon de commande/Abonnement
98 Impressum
Locomotiva elettrica E 444 053 seconda serie “Tartaruga” FS
https://www.maerklin.de/de/produkte/details/article/39706
Schnelltriebwagenzug RAe TEE II Modelleisenbahn in Spur Z Sommer 2025 von Märklin
https://www.maerklinshop.de/detail/index/sArticle/66940
Märklin/Trix Rare Re 4/4“ TEE 11250
Belle locomotive CFF de l’ancienne exploitation TEE du Simplon, numérique AC
Très beau modèle qui n’a jamais existé sous cette forme en sortie d’usine :
En 2008, Trix (et seulement Trix, pas Märklin) a sorti la locomotive TEE avec le numéro de circulation 11250 (Trix Art. No. 22148). Il s’agit d’un modèle qui porte encore les armoiries suisses gravées sur le devant (et non les petites armoiries chétives imprimées au-dessus de la ligne de séparation de peinture) et constitue donc un complément idéal à la locomotive Märklin TEE n° 11161 précédemment publiée. Dans le cadre d’un « échange de cônes », le boîtier Trix a été monté sur le châssis d’une ancienne locomotive rouge Märklin Re 4/4 II n° 11162 AC numérique n° 3734, et entre-temps, j’ai également remplacé les panneaux lumineux à LED jaunes par des produits Märklin d’origine actuels à LED blanches (voir photo de couverture).
かつてのシンプロンTEEオペレーションの美しいSBB機関車、ACデジタル
工場からこの形で存在したことのなかった非常に素晴らしいモデル:
2008 年に、Trix (Märklin ではなく Trix のみ) は、製造番号 11250 (Trix Art. No. 22148) の TEE 機関車をリリースしました。これは、前面にスイスの紋章が刻印されたままのモデル（塗装の分割線の上に印刷されたちっぽけな紋章ではありません）で、以前リリースされた Märklin TEE 機関車 No. 11161 の理想的な補完品です。「コーン交換」の一環として、Trix ハウジングは、元赤色の Märklin Re 4/4 II No. 11162 AC デジタル No. 3734 のシャーシに取り付けられ、その間に、黄色の LED のライト ボードも、白色 LED の現在のオリジナル Märklin 製品に交換しました（表紙の写真を参照）。
Update 2026
Kato News April 2026
1961 Inbetriebsetzung des RAe TEE II 1053 am 16. Juni 1961
1962 Kollision mit Güterwagen in Montbord (F) mit 10 Toten und 11 Verletzten (5.10.1962)
1971 Entgleisung in Milano (I) am 09.10.1971
1973 Anprall in Lausanne (30.01.1973)
1966 Ergänzung mit 6. Zwischenwagen nach Vertrag mit SIG vom 29.10.1964 über vier Zwischenwagen für die RAe TEE II
1986 Schwelbrand in Maschinenwagen am 06.09.1986; vorübergehnd Ersatz durch Maschinenwagen 1055/3 nach R2 und Umnummerierung in 1053/3 am 16.12.1986.
1987 Ursprünglicher Maschinenwagen 1053/3 wurde neu verkabelt.
1989 Umbau in Eurocity-Zug RABe 1053; Inbetriebnahme als “Graue Maus” Mitte Februar 1989 wieder mit ursprünglichem Maschinenwagen 1053/3.
1999 Letzter Einsatz als EC/IC am 27. November 1999
2001 Übergabe von SBB an SBB Historic.
2003 Seit Mai 2003 trägt der Zug wieder sein ursprüngliches rot-crèmes Farbkleid als TEE-Zug.
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