May 2025

Sometimes you can find something in craft supplies that could be suitable for gauge 1 and is inexpensive. Lanterns, for example.

Stadler's KISS multiple units are changing hands for the second time. 20 pictures and some more recent history.

Overhead lines are not very common on gauge 1 because they are not only expensive but also difficult to install and only vaguely resemble the real thing. For this reason, overhead lines are usually not used when operating electric locomotives, or at best, masts are erected. This is understandable because catenary systems are highly complex networks that require a great deal of expertise and enormous manual skill to install.

Jean-Luc Declerck from Belgium is a model builder who has set about constructing fully tensioned overhead lines and shows how he did it here in 99 pictures. He designed a prototypical SNCB overhead line for 1:32 scale.

New gauge 1 products for Switzerland will be announced today at TrainExpo in Bülach.

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Märklin has now published its summer novelties online. Nothing new has been announced for gauge 1.

This coming weekend, TrainExpo will be taking place in Bülach near Zurich, offering a varied program for fans of gauge 0 and 1. Here is an overview.

The 141 R was a steam locomotive manufactured in North America that helped alleviate the shortage of locomotives in France after World War II. The gauge 1 models from Modelbex are available and documented here with photos.

No, not all Gauge 1 suppliers have said goodbye to power just yet. Marketing slogans and linguistic intelligence are all too rarely compatible, as we can see here. Although, if a break is power, then this could also refer to Gauge 1 suppliers who have been taking a break for years, taking their time with a couple of projects.

Anyway, there have been some changes to the delivery dates, as a few pauses are coming to an end.

In a huge update, Spur 1 Austria not only shows the many planned variants of the locomotives announced some time ago, but also expands its range of Siemens Vectron locomotives with the diesel-electric version.

The Wunder website is up and running again, and the gauge 1 models are on their way. An update.

Gauge 1 models from Markscheffel [&] Lennartz have always been very expensive. But until March 1995, there was a diesel locomotive available at an absolute bargain price. A look back.