March 2022

2015 was a year of new Märklin products for Gauge 1, but other suppliers also came onto the booming market with attractive handbuilt samples and models.

There is news.

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We have the Vectron as a model for gauge 1, and the Traxx 2 as well. But today's rail traffic has even more to offer. A picture gallery with 48 current photos.

Short notice.

2014 was a eventful year for Gauge 1 and the reporting of spur1info.

The weekend after next, the Spur 1 Spur 0 fair will open its doors in the former locomotive shed in Mainz, Germany.

Dingler has specified the model versions at the Rhaetian Crocodile. The meter gauge model for 1 Gauge is coming.

A steaming Märklin novelty marked the dawn of Gauge 1 in Göppingen in 2013, live steam models rolled between high-quality brass models.

News for subscribers.

At the beginning of April, spur1info will be ten years old.

A good occasion to look back on how Gauge 1 and spur1info have developed.

In 1976, I photographed some DB class 485 railcars with class 885 cab cars in southern Baden.

The large module layout "Saxon Narrow Gauge Railroad Hamburg" was disbanded. 26 pictures for the farewell.

Newsflash.

Tohru Nakamura, who runs the top restaurant Tohru in the Schreiberei in Munich, has once again received two stars from the Guide Michelin. Congratulations!

You can also enjoy exclusive catering from him in Luxon, RailAdventure's contemporary modernized TEE observation car.

The "Schöne Württembergerin", the class C of the K.W.St.E. and later class 18¹, is comprehensively described in a new book.

Gauge 1 locomotives became more detailed and got new features almost every year. Hans and Walter Ziegler have equipped some older models with lubrication pumps that appear to be powered.

The friends of Bavarian gauge 1 models have no need to complain about a lack of offers. The tender locomotive of the class D XI, the later class 98^4-5, should fulfill some wishes as a Kiss model these days. A report with 47 photos in large format.

There will soon be attractive new commercial vehicles for the slowly growing number of gauge 1 railroaders who prefer current models.