for the art museum in rochester see rochester contemporary art center . roco h0 scale model tram roco based in salzburg austria is a manufacturer of model railway equipment . history edit the company was founded in 1960 by ing . heinz r ssler and started with a plastic minitanks series of military vehicles . after export to the usa became successful the model line was expanded with model trains in ho scale and the smaller n scale . tt scale was also subsequently added to the product line . the model rail product line covers many european countries including germany belgium luxembourg france spain austria italy switzerland sweden and the netherlands and also the usa . on july 15 2005 roco modellspielwaren gmbh was declared bankrupt . from july 25 the company continues as modelleisenbahn gmbh but still uses the roco brand and associated logo . on october 1 2007 distribution of the minitank product series was assigned to the german model car manufacturer herpa . since february 2008 modelleisenbahn also owns fleischmann which like roco had gone bankrupt . 1 the two companies continue as separate brands under modelleisenbahn gmbh while benefiting from economies of scale through joined development projects marketing and procurement . 2 references edit mremag.com news service german modelleisenbahn gmbh press release december 2008 external links edit wikimedia commons has media related to roco . company website usa distributor early roco models for the american market in german foto list of famous trams made by roco maintaining and repairing roco model power e7 and e9 locomotives this model rail related article is a stub . you can help wikipedia by expanding it . v t e retrieved from https en.wikipedia.org w index.php title roco & oldid 709606312 categories model railroad manufacturersaustrian brandsmodel rail stubshidden categories articles with german language external linkscommons category with local link same as on wikidataall stub articles navigation menu personal tools not logged intalkcontributionscreate accountlog in namespaces article talk variants views read edit view history more search navigation main pagecontentsfeatured contentcurrent eventsrandom articledonate to wikipediawikipedia store interaction helpabout wikipediacommunity portalrecent changescontact page tools what links hererelated changesupload filespecial pagespermanent linkpage informationwikidata itemcite this page print export create a bookdownload as pdfprintable version in other projects wikimedia commons languages deutschfran ais slenskaitalianol tzebuergeschnederlands norsk bokm lpolskiportugu s suomisvenska edit links this page was last modified on 11 march 2016 at 22 54 . text is available under the creative commons attribution sharealike license ; additional terms may apply . by using this site you agree to the terms of use and privacy policy . wikipedia is a registered trademark of the wikimedia foundation inc. a non profit organization . privacy policy about wikipedia disclaimers contact wikipedia developers cookie statement mobile view