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Michael, I can see where you are coming from. Today´s models are highly detailed, but I am inclined to say they are over-detailed, but way too fragile for some hard ops on a layout. I model HOm gauge Swiss narrow gauge lines and the locos and cars from Bemo certainly fit this description. Even worse, they are highly detailed, but badly engineered, quite often they end up as expensive shelf queens. I still have some old Marklin locos, which were first marketed in the late 1950´s and sold unchanged way into the 1980´s. They are rugged, well engineered "beasts" you can´t kill, smooth runners, but with a lot lower level of detail, which you notice only on the second glance. The best of them is that if I re-calculate their 1950´s price into today´s money, they´d go for a tad over a third of the current model, not to mention thefact that they were manufactured domestically instead of a far away country. <img src="http://i682.photobucket.com/albums/vv185/SirMadig/E%2041%204_zpsycwvujwh.jpg" alt=" " /> <img src="http://i682.photobucket.com/albums/vv185/SirMadig/P1100469_zpsdm6xwnpc.jpg" alt=" " /> Both locos are round and about 35 years old now. I have run them just recently, straight out of the box in which they had rested for over 30 years! They don´t make `em like this anymore [sigh]
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