Does Anyone Model/Run European Trains?

I don't.

I do not.

I am with Hot Water on this one. 

As do Roco, Fleishmann, Marklin, Trix, Bemo, LGB, etc.

 

There's a US based organization devoted to them, the European Train Enthusiasts.

 

Here's some images from the All American Railroad Show 2014 where the Chicagoland Chapter exhibited:

 

And they can run Marklin stud AC, conventional 2 rail DC, DCC, and off overhead all on the same track.

 

They keep trying to rope me in...

 

Rusty

To clarify my previous post, I much as I would love to have one of the new MTH German "BR-44" (when ever it comes out), 2-10-0 3-cylinder locomotive models, having witnessed the real ones, the "European" models are NOT 1/48. The "European" models are something like 1/43 and thus look noticeably larger when placed next to a U.S. model steam locomotive at 1/48.

I do. But in HO scale.

No, but I have considered some of the MTH, European Freight or

Passenger Cars.

  Click MTH page to enlarge. Page 146-147 • 2015 Volume One 

well, only if Marklin three rail ho counts...

 

 

Not me -- although I confess to a great fascination with German narrow-gauge trains.  Back in my HO years, I had a lot of Liliput HOn30 equipment.

 

Well, MTH sells models (usually 1:43 scale) of European locos.  I have a lovely French 241.A (a 4-8-2) Chapelon, which is one the best models I have and has the best whistle of any loco I have ever heard, a wonderful reproduction of the very shrill, penetrating Eurpoean steam loco whistle.

 

But that is still an American product, if of a Europoean loco.

 

I have only one European O-gauge model train.  A Darsted 2-6-2, tinplate tank engine. Even though it is tinplate, it is really much more model than toy - it looks quite real.   It is 1:43 scale and quite nice to look at.  It was delivered as a 3-rail DC loco - a weird thing indeed, although I converted it to AC with a rectifier installed, and has no electronics or sound and is by far the noisiest (gear and rolling noise) toy loco I have ever heard.  I don't run it, but just display it here in my study.

 

 

As of right now, no. HOWEVER....I have always loved the look of European trains and have always wanted to build a small layout with Marklin in Z or HO or even LGB. Only issue is time and (more importantly) money........one day......!

My original concept for a layout when i was into G scale was to create a fictional US Army RR operating unit, stateside. The other half of the layout would take place at the end of WW2 In Germany and would get the use of all the LGB german stuff.

For a short while, when I went to On30, I considered the same concept, which meant I could have used a lot of 1/48 scale stuff for military modelers, but never did so.

I've chased trains in Germany and the Netherlands years back, so I will always have an affinity for trains from those countries.

But no, I don't model European, though I see the appeal.

the only thing i've got is my lionel hogwarts express.  the engine was nicer than i thought, considering the horror story reviews i read online.  but i think this'll be the only european item in my collection.  didn't plan on buying it, but found the whole set for $60 on ebay, so i couldn't pass it up

I bought two Lionel Harry Potter sets one year cheap. I moved all the coaches to one set, painted the other loco green (still not finished) and bought some Lima British freight cars. I also bought a few British freight cars kits and built a few myself. So now I have two UK trains I can run on 'foreign' day!

I do in both O and HO.  In fact, my last minute Christmas display features most of my HO European stuff.  From Hornby, I have two OO scale LNER locos (A1 Flying Scotsman and J83 0-6-0T) and three LNER coaches.  From Roco I have a DB Era III BR57 0-10-0 (not running on the display because it needs a DCC decoder) and a DB Era III set of eight goods wagons.  I'll post pics and videos later.

In O gauge, I have the Lionel Shakespeare Express, and have already expressed my desire for the MTH Orient Express equipment more than once.

I run European and have a ten by twenty foot modular two rail layout. I have Lenz, MTH, Rivarossi, Lima, Brawa, and lots of other European brands running on it.(I posted some pics and videos of it quite a while back.) I also collect tinplate French Hornby in addition to my Lionel Postwar trains. All the best, Miketg

 

I don't mainly because of space and budget limitations. However, I would imagine there are many that do. I believe MTH European trains are selling well both here and in the European countries.