I have the Swiss Croc with the beer and box cars. The detailing on the loco and cars is about as good as you can get without going to brass, and may eqaul many brass releases. The down sides, which are not a big issue, is the slow speed performance of the engine - it is not as smooth as I had hoped for - and the sound, which does not seem to duplicate the real engine. There are many makers of European sound boards with better sounds sets than MTH, so I think MTH would be well served to make DCC ready versions of their Euro loco so that people can install their own sound. Finally, the model only represents the brown version of the engine; the body on the green engine went through a number of modifications, and none of these are included in the MTH model. However, despite these flaws, its hard not to prasie MTH for making a near brass quality croc that costs only a fraction of those from European makers.
