Lima (models) - Europe

Europe

Lima's continental outline catalogue concentrated first on German and then Italian and Swiss equipment. Their relatively inexpensive offerings doubtless brought many people into the hobby. A modest assortment of accessories, including operable pieces like grade crossings and an intermodal terminal, as well as static structures and lineside details, enhanced the 'playtime' pleasure of building and operating a Lima-based train layout.

Lima also was one of the first to make scale models from the Scandinavian countries. Exampels covered the DSB MZ with machting coaches the smart red livery. The made the famous Swedish Orange RC-4 lokomotive with a wide range af all the coaches, inclunding the rare dinning and sleeping car. Also Norweigen lokomotives and coaches were made. In the freight division countless small 2 axeled waggons such as "Tuborg" or "Carlsberg" - many of these to be repeated in "0" scale. All simpel, but indeed robust. Only the engines suffered from lack of tracktion and too high gearing, a problem first solved much later when Roco started to set pace in the Model railway world in the 1980es.

In the 1990es the products could almost compeat with other signifigant industrial powers, making catalogs covering almost any European country both in DC/AC. However a price had to be paid for running a 300 pages catalog, at the same the damand were generally dropping overall and Lima went bankrupt.