The Swedish narrow gauge society was founded in 1976 at a time, when no commercial models of Swedish narrow gauge equipment existed. The aim of the society was to bring Swedish narrow gauge modellers together and to get information about what was avaiable abroad. There are a little more than 500 members of the society, steadily increasing towards 600, and most of them prefer Swedish prototypes. With American protypes as the second choice. HO with 9mm or 10,5mm track gauge is very popular. There is also a small but very active group that models in 7 mm scale on 16,5mm track. Other members do everything between Nn3 and 1/6 scale. The society´s magazine "Smalsparigt" is published four times a year. There are one annual meeting and several model meetings each year.
We are fortunate to have quite a few manufacturers of Swedish narrow gauge models in Sweden! In HO are Rimbo Grande the largest, they have an almost complete selection of swedish narrow gauge railbuses in HOe/HOn3 but also an EMU and much more. They also produce standard gauge railbuses and wagons. In Oe/On3 they have a single railbus available.
Erik Walde makes etched kits with brass castings for 7mm scale 3 fot Swedish protypes one very popular model is the diesel shunter Z4p. He has also made a steam engine kit that recently has been released. His production also includes 4-5 freight and a passenger car.
In 'O' scale is Tobias Ljung also producing models. His production is aimed at Swedish 60 cm gauge prototypes designed for On2 (1:45 scale, 12,7 mm gauge) but are in some cases prepared for 016,5. Learn more about his models on his homepage.