Model Railway News

530 products from Marklin, Brekina, Busch, Heki, Preiser and Vollmer were added to our Latest Arrivals page today.

The MARKLIN TRIX AND LGB 2019 New Items are here! Every year Marklin brings us some surprises (a gold Krokodile!) and lots of great new items for the coming year. HO scale highlights for 2019 include a new ICE 4 and Swiss FC 2x3/4 as well as a new turntable (with sound) just for Marklin/Trix C-track. We will post a full set of highlights for all scales shortly!

Our pre-order discount program pricing will be posted later this month once we have details from the factories. In the meantime you can browse all the Marklin, Trix and LGB new items with images and english descriptions on our site at the links below.

MARKLIN 2019 New Items (HO, Z, & 1)

TRIX 2019 New Items (HO & N Scale)

LGB 2019 New Items (G Scale)

More 2019 New Items coming soon!

What is our Pre-Order Discount Program? Each year the major European manufacturers launch the bulk of their new products for the year in late-January at the Nuremburg Toy Fair in Germany.  These manufacturers offer dealers discounted pricing for placing advance orders for these new products and we are able to pass along those savings to our customers through our pre-order discount program.  By pre-ordering products you are interested in, you receive the lowest pricing we will offer on these products and guarantee your "place in line" for hot and limited edition products. Increasingly, many popular products will 'sell out at the factory' before they are even produced so pre-ordering ensures we can obtain them for you.  We never charge you until the products actually ship to you so your money or credit is not tied up (our regular cancellation policies apply to pre-orders). We will announce full details of this year's program when prices are posted later this month.

Wow! over 500 new announcements in HO and N from Roco and Fleischmann for 2019! As always there are lots of interesting new items (and 'reprints' we know many of you have be patiently waiting for) in both the Roco HO program and the Fleischmann N new items.

Our pre-order discount program pricing will be posted later this month once we have details from the factories. In the meantime you can browse all the Roco and Fleischmann new items on our site at the links below.

Roco 2019 New Items (HO and HOe)

Fleischmann 2019 New Items (N Scale)

Marklin,Trix and LGB 2019 New Items coming later this week!

What is our Pre-Order Discount Program? Each year the major European manufacturers launch the bulk of their new products for the year in late-January at the Nuremburg Toy Fair in Germany.  These manufacturers offer dealers discounted pricing for placing advance orders for these new products and we are able to pass along those savings to our customers through our pre-order discount program.  By pre-ordering products you are interested in, you receive the lowest pricing we will offer on these products and guarantee your "place in line" for hot and limited edition products. Increasingly, many popular products will 'sell out at the factory' before they are even produced so pre-ordering ensures we can obtain them for you.  We never charge you until the products actually ship to you so your money or credit is not tied up (our regular cancellation policies apply to pre-orders). We will announce full details of this year's program when prices are posted later this month.

339 products from Noch were added to our Latest Arrivals page today.

ESU has announced an all-new DB V60 diesel locomotive as part of their 'Engineering Edition' line of HO scale locomotives (DCC and Marklin AC).  The model comes with a new metal body mold and chassis, full digital sound, digital keep-alive, digital couplings, advanced lighting,a new smoke generator, and all the fine detail and quality one expects from ESU. The model will be offered in 5 liveries from Era III thorugh Era VI. 

See the new ESU HO scale V60 on the ESU Youtube Channel

See the details on the ESU website (German with some english)

The new V60 also features another announcement from ESU for 2019 - the Loksound 5 decoder!  The new Loksound decoder includes a new 32-bit processor capable of playing 10 sound channels simultaneously, 16-bit resoultion/31250Hz sample rate, optimized motor control, up to 32 functions, as well as new brake simulation and heavy-load modes and much more.  Individual Loksound v5 decoders should be available during the 1st Quarter of 2019

Full details on these and other ESU 2019 New Item announcements will be added to our website catalog once we have full details from ESU at the 2019 Nuremberg Toyfair (Jan 30th to Feb 3rd).

Check back often for more news on 2019 New Item Announcements throughout January and February! Follow us on Facebook for all the news as soon as we post it.

222 products from Kibri, Vollmer and Viessmann were added to our Latest Arrivals page today.

Happy New Year!  The first manufacturer this year to announce the details of their 2019 New Items releases ahead of the Nuremburg Toy Fair is PIKO.  They have posted 2019 Catalogs for HO, TT, N, and G scale including their 2019 New Items releases.

We will add the new items to our online PIKO catalog shortly but have posted the PDFs in the meantime. Click the links below to download each PDF catalog.  Look for the 'NEU' highlights for the new items in each catalog.

PIKO 2019 HO Catalog / New Items (PDF)

PIKO 2019 TT Catalog / New Items (PDF)

PIKO 2019 N Catalog / New Items (PDF)

PIKO 2019 G Catalog / New Items (PDF)

More new product announcements will be coming soon from Marklin and other manufacturers as the Nuremberg Toyfair approaches at the end of the month.  As always we try to be one of first to post new items announcements so check back often and follow us on Facebook or Twitter to ensure you get notified as soon as possible about all new items, new product arrivals in our store and other events and news!

210 products from Faller and Pola were added to our Latest Arrivals page today.

 

 

 

 

 

 

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202 products from Marklin, LGB and Trix were added to our Latest Arrivals page today.

189 products from Brawa, ESU and Sommerfeldt were added to our Latest Arrivals page today.

We have been able to secure a few additional sets of the extremely popular Marklin 37797 SNCF TGV Duplex V150 set for our customers. This model sold out at the factory almost immediately when it was announced and we have had a steady stream of inquiries about them since.   Please note that this item has not been delivered yet so will appear as out of stock/pre-order on our site - this does not mean we have sold out of this new allocation. Please place your order and the new units will be allocated on a first come first serve basis. We will update this notice when they are sold out.

If you are interested in one of these sets please place your order ASAP as our additional allocation will not last long!  See details and pricing at the link below or by clicking here.

Merry Christmas!  Please take note of our holiday store hours for the upcoming Christmas and New Years holidays.

Holiday Store Hours (retail store as well as telephone/e-mail/shipping)

To December 23rd   Open regular hours December 24th - 27th   CLOSED December 28th, 29th, 31st   Open January 1st - 2nd   CLOSED January 3rd onwards   Open regular hours

13 products from Fleischmann and Roco were added to our Latest Arrivals page today.

7 products from Fleischmann and Roco were added to our Latest Arrivals page today.

126 products from Fleischmann and Roco were added to our Latest Arrivals page today.

103 products from Faller and Viessmann were added to our Latest Arrivals page today.

I started a blog in 2017 to document the creation of my Z scale Alpine layout (all Marklin locos and rolling stock with mixed products for just about everything else). You can see my posts at the end of this page.

I went with Z scale because I wanted to make the most of a layout in a limited space and I had bought some Marklin Z rolling stock, locos and track many years ago for "the day" I would start a layout. 

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