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[quote user="VOLKER LANDWEHR"]With $120 million of annual sales it is the largest European model railroad manufacturer. Marklin was founded in 1858 and produced electric toy trains with AC voltage since about 1926.[/quote] It is safe to say, that Marklin is still the # 1 in the toy train business world-wide, just a notch ahead of the Kader Group/Hong Kong. Marklin sold electric trains long before 1926 - that year marks the start of their OO scale range of products which soon gave way to HO scale. Marklin´s proprietary 3-rail AC system is certainly anachronistic and does not appeal to quite a number of folks, but it is still the most reliable and foolproof system there is. The hobby ows Marklin quite a lot of developments, starting with HO scale all the way to DCC. Bernd Lenz was commissioned by Marklin to develop a digital control system, which Marklin at the end paid for, but did not adopt for their own products.
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