I agree with Guus having recently bought a HAG Erstfeld model from Mike. What is so different from Maerklin is the depth of the speaker sound and there are certain more of them. Gee, Mike, if HAG sold Erstfelds to Maerklin then I could have saved some amount of money going Maerklin! In any event, I wanted a Swiss-made model for my Swiss level and am very happy with the purchase despite the weird couplers throwing me at first. (They do work very well.)

Nev. Great idea. To increase profit for M supply all jails with layouts.
Never could quite figure out how to get cash from the bank without getting caught...and I had the keys!!
These HAG models can be addicitve and thankfully it is only Swiss they make.

David

For you SBB Cargo fans, check out this one.....

http://cgi.ebay.ch/HAG-A...WDVWQQrdZ1QQcmdZViewItem

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Looks like only 1 AC-digital model produced.

As some of you might recall (see one of the early postings), I got this loco as a Christmas present from my wife. My model didn't have to travel far - from Barp-Tech at Winterthur a couple of hundred meters to our home. The UIC connectors and the slider are entirely undamaged. However, the handrails on the front of both cabs had to be slipped back over the slits were they normally rest. And on the roof, the silver-colored "Hauptschalter" is severely bent sideways. If this part is made of plastic (anyone happens to know?), then it will probably break if I try to bend it back to its standard position, so I'll leave it as it is for the time being.

I don't know whether a whole pallet load of these models was dropped, but I think that Marklin's inner packaging leaves a lot of room for improvement. The transparent plastic is simply too rigid, without the slightest cushion of soft material absorbing a possible blow from the outside (those little strips of thin foam over the cabs and the roof are actually nothing more than a "placebo"-like joke [V]).

Although I might be considered as biased, I still think that HAG's comparatively huge loco boxes with ample cushioning inside are the best kind of protection.