January 2025

Many gauge 1 models have been delivered in 2024. There is a reluctance to make new announcements. The current planning for 2025 offers something for almost every customer.

And then: Let there be rock.

Ambitious model railroad projects take a long time, especially in gauge 1. One reader's model of a gated railroad crossing is nearing completion and will be surprising for its unique functions.

The class 44 with its three-cylinder engine was one of the most impressive standard design locomotives. 27 pictures that I took in the 1960s and 1970s.

Tractors used to chug along here. Now four-legged helpers have taken over some of the work.

Boxcar “Bremen” and the Pwgs 44 are based on the same underframe. A good reason for Spur 1 Austria to also produce this freight train baggage car, which is widely used in Germany and Austria, as a gauge 1 model.

The simple covered freight cars of the Bremen type built from 1943 are now being delivered as gauge 1 models by Spur 1 Austria. The inexpensive brass models have a few amazing details. A review with 35 photos.

Weinert supplies fine kits for lighting streets, platforms and entrances, which require some patience and dexterity.

Schuco has been stingy with new releases, but MarGe Models continues to serve fans of modern trucks.

In January 2010, it snowed in Düsseldorf. The inexperienced street cleaning service struggled with the small amount of snow with little success. But the Rheinbahn had an old snow plow. Pictures of the operation.

Märklin is targeting the collectors' market this year with its new 1-gauge products and is announcing a classic.

The new year has begun and there are already a few reports on Gauge 1.