I was really surprised reading the latest issue of the well known German Z magazine Trainini: Rokuhan is going to release the German Class BR 181.2 Electro Loco in 2 different paint schemes! What they show so far looks really, really good. So, this fuels some hope they will go US trains, too. Would be absolutely welcome, AZL's de facto monopoly is not healthy in the long term.
Saw the news in trainini too. Hopefully they follow eventually Kato, but for z scale . Also a good development that they started with a new not yet existing z scale model!
The German online shop 1zu220-shop already has them listed as available from the date of 1 December 2015. (Of course, availability dates tend to be optimistic, certainly for Marklin products.) http://www.1zu220-shop.de/ROKUHAN:::35.html I hope that giving this link does not breach Trainboard policy. I live in the UK but purchase many items from this shop but have no other connection with them. Rob Pearce (aka ViperBugloss)
