Merkur 9330 is a green passenger car with a first and second class compartment . It is 42 cm (approx. 17 inch) long and weighs 800 grams. Merkur 9751 is a blue passenger car with a luggage and passenger compartment, is also 42 cm long and weighs roughly 900 grams. The luggage doors can be opened and closed. Both carriages are equipped with Bing type couplers (hook and eye), so I need to change one for a claw, but that is easily done. The coupler is held in place by a washer and a nut.
These carriages were taken for a ride by an American Camelback engine of MTH, although an impossible line up. Neverthless they just ran nice on my old JEP tracks with 042 curves.
Besides the passenger cars I also bought two tubular style switches. The nice thing of Merkur track is that it is completely compatible with Lionel tubular tracks and has simply three pins on one side and none at the other. This in contrast to Märklin and JEP rails with two pins up and one down. Merkur has three different switches, similar to their curves, with curves of 22.5 degree (or 1/16th circle) and radii of 625 mm, 760 mm and 900 mm, which would roughly correspond to 050, 060 and 072 curves of American tubular track. My Lionel and MTH engines run smoothly over these switches. These are manual controlled with a big yellow lever and once in position, they will keep it. Because it is solid technology. Meaning that running an engine over such a switch when it is in the wrong position will result in derailment.
I used the run-your-own-Märklin-trains-event in the museum to run the Merkur carriages with an old Märklin steamer. That was just fine.
