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 Hi Marc,I looked at the pictures in this link - chapeau! What a beautiful work of art!!! You´ll never make that with the stuff sold by the big "M" - [swg]Marklin still seems to be the market leader, mainly for reasons of nostalgia, as our fathers and a lot of us have started out with that brand. I remember looking down at my classmates who had a Fleischmann, or even worse, a Trix train set! They certainly dominated the scene and despite all recent troubles, I guess they still do. Their new generation of steam locos are certainly a step-up improvement in terms of detail when compared to what Marklin used to be: <img src="http://medienpdb.maerklin.de/product_files/1/img/detailb/39230.jpg" mce_src="http://medienpdb.maerklin.de/product_files/1/img/detailb/39230.jpg" width="515" height="200"><img src="http://medienpdb.maerklin.de/product_files/1/img/detailb/39020.jpg" mce_src="http://medienpdb.maerklin.de/product_files/1/img/detailb/39020.jpg" width="515" height="200"> At the prices Marklin is asking for them -  they´d better be! [}:)]But as we are discussing not only German mrr practice here, let us also take a look at other European countries. Big M started very early to make locos of European prototype - the early 1950´s saw already locos of Dutch, Belgium, Danish, Swiss, French, Swedish  prototype and I don´t mean just those steam locos of German origin renumbered or the famous Swiss "crocodile".  Marklin certainly spread the hobby, at least on the Continent, thus giving the few local manufacturers a hard time - remember Jouef, Lima, Liliput, Rivarossi, Kleinbahn all struggling along?  A couple of times Big "M" ventured into the US market - but I am not sure about their success with US outline equipment.  The 1960´s saw some F-type loco, which looked bad to me, having seen "real" F´s in MR ! It was what I saw in MR that made me pack up my Marklin stuff and sell it! There is no reason to condemn Marklin, though, as some do. IMHO, the hobby owes Marklin quite a lot! If they would make a more realistic track system, heck, I could get weak and start a layout with Marklin, again... [swg] - for pure nostalgia! Marklin has strongly coined the mrr practice, not only in Germany, and I guess, we continental Europeans are still in the process of getting rid of some of the bad habits they introduced, like tight radii curves, those sharp turnouts, colored saw dust for scenicking our layouts ([(-D]).Marklin´s financial woes have not yet ended - maybe because we have outgrown Marklin in the meantime!
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