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<p>[quote user="simon1966"]</p><p>[quote user="Graffen"]Wouldn´t it be nice if the US mfg´s started to use the era-classifications. Then it would be much easier to know when the equipment was used.[/quote]</p> <p>It would be great to be browsing in a hobby shop and know from the box what era something would come from.  This would be particularly helpful when starting out in the hobby.</p><p>[/quote] </p><p>Manufacturers like Marklin, Roco etc. use pictograms on their web pages and sometimes packaging to explain the product, also which "epoch" the models belongs to. </p><p>Just an example: <br></p><div class="ProdukteDetailAnsichtEigenschaften"><div class="ProduktKleinesItemKastenArtnr"><br></div><div class="pictogramm_gesellschaft"><img src="http://www.roco.co.at/fileadmin/templates/pictogramme_gesellschaften/norwegen_lkab.png" mce_src="http://www.roco.co.at/fileadmin/templates/pictogramme_gesellschaften/norwegen_lkab.png" class="Tips1" alt=""> Owner/Railroad<br></div><div class="ProduktKleinesItemKasten2"><img src="http://www.roco.co.at/fileadmin/templates/pictogramme_technisch/epoche_5.png" mce_src="http://www.roco.co.at/fileadmin/templates/pictogramme_technisch/epoche_5.png" class="Tips1" alt="">               Epoch V<br></div><div class="ProduktKleinesItemKasten2pic"><img src="http://www.roco.co.at/fileadmin/templates/pictogramme_technisch/gleichstrom.png" mce_src="http://www.roco.co.at/fileadmin/templates/pictogramme_technisch/gleichstrom.png" alt="Gleichstrom" class="Tips1">               DC<br></div><div class="ProduktKleinesItemKasten2pic"><img src="http://www.roco.co.at/fileadmin/templates/pictogramme_technisch/directional_headlight_white_red.png" mce_src="http://www.roco.co.at/fileadmin/templates/pictogramme_technisch/directional_headlight_white_red.png" class="Tips1" alt="">               Directional Head-/Taillights<br></div><div class="ProduktKleinesItemKasten2pic"><img src="http://www.roco.co.at/fileadmin/templates/pictogramme_technisch/catenary_operation.png" mce_src="http://www.roco.co.at/fileadmin/templates/pictogramme_technisch/catenary_operation.png" class="Tips1" alt="">               Working Pantograph<br></div><div class="ProduktKleinesItemKasten2pic"><img src="http://www.roco.co.at/fileadmin/templates/pictogramme_technisch/standard_coupling_pocket.png" mce_src="http://www.roco.co.at/fileadmin/templates/pictogramme_technisch/standard_coupling_pocket.png" class="Tips1" alt="">               ???<br></div><div class="ProduktKleinesItemKasten2pic"><img src="http://www.roco.co.at/fileadmin/templates/pictogramme_technisch/close_coupling_mechanism.png" mce_src="http://www.roco.co.at/fileadmin/templates/pictogramme_technisch/close_coupling_mechanism.png" class="Tips1" alt="">               Close Coupling (Buffer-to-Buffer)<br></div></div><div class="ProduktKleinesItemKasten2pic"><img src="http://www.roco.co.at/fileadmin/templates/pictogramme_technisch/interface.png" mce_src="http://www.roco.co.at/fileadmin/templates/pictogramme_technisch/interface.png" class="Tips1" alt="">               NEM DCC interface</div><div class="ProduktKleinesItemKasten2pic"> </div><div class="ProduktKleinesItemKasten2pic">Quite handy, isn´t it? <br></div><br><p> Edit:</p><p> UK modeling practice is different again - lotsa a kit building, lotsa small show layouts (well, sometimes not so small, see Jon Grants "Sweet Home Chicago" and his new layout "Sweet Home Alabama"). I guess, continental Europe is pretty much like Germany. UK layouts look odd to us, as German layouts look probably odd to them. UK layouts are often even smaller than German layouts - just station to fiddle yard, but with a tremendous attention to detail and realism.<br></p><p>Scales and gauges used in Germany are HO, HOe (9mm track NG), HOm (12 mm track NG),TT, N, Nm (6,5 mm track NG), Z. Off course there is still O, Oe, Om, 1, 1f, G etc. TT was very popular in the "old" GDR and now sees its revival in the West as well.<br></p>
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