[Dennis David]

With regards to Fleischmann I think it may be the lack of coordination between them and their English distributers. In Germany there are certified repair outlets all over the map which you can find listed in any of the German model railroad magazines.

Which brings me to a totally unrelated matter. I send my locomotives to Vermont which is more than 3,000 miles away to be chipped and order new stuff from an outlet in Canada but you Brit's would think twice about dealing with any German shop that's got to be a lot closer. In this day of a European Market why is that?

 

[Dennis David]

Doug,

Since you live in France can't you just drive to Germany every so often? There are to online shops I deal with for Fleischmann. One is Reynauld's Euro-Imports and the other one is Euro Rail Hobbies the North American importer of Kiss Modellbahnen and Marklin Dealer of the Year (Whatever that means)

I've dealt on a personal level with Walter Menzel of Euro Rail Hobbies and have gotten good service from him.