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From: jar@siemens.UUCP
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Subject: Re: Roco Close-Coupling System
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Date: Wed, 18-Dec-85 13:26:00 EST
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Posted: Wed Dec 18 13:26:00 1985
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First of all I have know experience but some interesting information:

Marklin will bring a close-coupling system in 1986 they already showed it at
the last fair in Nuremberg in February.

There is a small company in Germany which produces some plastic parts to glue
under the cars which will accept the 'heads' of the Roco close-coupling
system. A friend of mine used it and told me sometimes it is easy sometimes
more difficult depending on the car and its manufacturer.

There are several companies in Germany which have a uniform mounting system
for the coupling-heads: Fleischmann, Roco and Lilliput. Others will follow
to this (i think) european standart, but one never knows about Marklin.
It's up to the user whether he/she uses close-coupling heads of Roco or the
new close-coupling-system of Fleischmann or the standart Marklin-type or
whatever.

Juergen A. Reimann
Research & Technologie Lab.
Siemens
105 College Road East
Princeton NJ 08540

(609) 734-6527

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