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 Pardon me for getting carried away with the topic, but there is one more issue I have nearly forgotten to address - it´s couplers!In the US, all of the couplers, be it Kadee (my all-time favorite), Accumate, McHenry etc. are more or less compatible. In Europe we are light years behind this. Each manufacturer still has his own, proprietary system, which is, naturally, not at all compatible. The NEM (Europe´s counterpart to the US NMRA) has, at last and alas,  achieved, that coupler mounting is standardized, so fitting your favorite coupler is done in seconds.The looks of whatever coupling system is just awkward and has no resemblance to either the old hook-and-screw couplers used by the prototype, nor the newer Scharffenberg couplers used on European highspeed trains. There are scale hook-and-screw couplers in HO available, but automatic coupling/uncoupling is a no-no if you intend to use them. They look dang real, though.
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