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Just a follow-up, if you don't mind. Does anyone have any experience with the Roco system? It seems to be available fairly cheaply in their various digital starter sets (as long as you have a use for the digital German diesel loco bundled with it).

 

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[Oops, double post]

 

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Actually, since I'm not at all concerned about historical and geographical accuracy, I'd probably find use for just about any loco in the Roco lineup.

 

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Aye, the Ecos looks pretty cool, but a bit out of my price range. The cheapest Roco starter set with the Multimaus is only 130 € if ordered from Germany, which sounds pretty good considering the features of the system.

 

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I shudder to think what they charge for international shipping of NCE stuff from the States, when postage from Germany alone is quoted at 15€ or more. Sounds like it'd put an end to the "getting off cheaply" angle.

Plus with my luck, it'd get stuck in customs and I'd have to pay some insane additional charge. Happens regularly on transatlantic packages, I'm told.

 

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In Finland, there is no "locally." No train stores, very few active clubs, no real interest in the hobby. It's so bad you can't even find train stuff secondhand (unless you're into three-rail Märklin, which there appears to be a copious market of).

We're a dying market, really. I blame Playstation frying the brains of our youth.

 

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Aye, you can't go wrong with German online retailers. Modellbahn Kramm alone stocks almost everything one might conceivably want, with the exception of Lenz DCC equipment, IIRC.

 

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Sounds like good customer service, then. As far as I'm concerned, the local model rail community can go stuff it, they're all a bunch of realism-junkies who make their own locos out of brass and such... :-(