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My Neighbour has a Marklin layout!!
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It uses AC power, and has a stud contact system between the rails. Rolling stock axles aren't insulated so wheelsets need to be exchanged to run Marklin cars on 2-rail layouts. It seems to be very robust and long-lived - many of the big public exhibition layouts I've seen articles on (Miniatur Wonderland in Hamburg, for example) use Marklin, presumably for the reliability. The fact that the two rails are a common return allows easy train detection which may also be a help for automated layouts - a change in resistance can be detected when a train passes due to the conductive axles. The only major snag is that the stud contact AC nature of the system limits it - you can only run Marklin locos (and a very few others - Fleischmann and Electrotren offer locos wired for this alongside their regular 12v DC ranges).
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