The 2024’s Insider Model is 80334: boxcar (Era IV) lettered for “TELEFUNKEN.” As a German radio and television producer Telefunken was founded in 1903 as a joint enterprise: AEG and Siemens & Halske. Its Wiki page talks of the company in the past tense, it was defunct in 1967 and merged with other German companies. It is notable that Tekefunken (Berlin) set up the first worldwide communications network prior to World War I, and the company sold the first cathode-ray tube television in 1934.

As a Z scale model the boxcar is striking with its graphic advertising design. Insider Models including this example are included with membership to the Insider Club which also includes Marklin Magazine Subscription and invitation to order Marklin Insider Locomotive for $99/year in United States.

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Siding: Insider Model for 2025:

Prototype: “Thunder Box” buffet car for the Minden Railroad Museum (MEM). The car looks as they currently do in real life.