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A Swiss reader writes, "I have some good memories from my young years when
playing with my electric train. It was a Märklin model which was made in Germany and was quite popular in Germany, Austria and Switzerland. To the basic model you could add and add rails, wagons, locomotives, bridges, tunnels so for quite some years your parents always knew what they could offer for birthday or Christmas. The only unresolved question is to know whether father offerring another locomotive to son
was not in fact making gift to himself? Anyway the original train of my childhood still exists and made with some additions the delights of my own two sons ... and nowadays of my grandson. The pièce de résistance of it was the famous Cocodile locomotive which was a real Swiss Federal Railway locomotive and used by Märklin for one of their model locomotives."
A Swiss contributot has pointed out usedul sources of information about old Swiss Trains and sheet metal toys: WESA, WESA, and BUCO.
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