Any electronic product you ship into the USA must be approved already for the USA and you may be required to provide the approval evidence.

So basically anything electronic now needs an SDoC, a responsible person in the USA and so on. For any product that's sold in the USA anyway that shouldn't be a problem (other than finding all the approval info) for anything not it basically means you can't ship it into the USA full stop unless you get a US responsible person and do US compliance lab testing.

ie if it's a Bachmann loco and Bachmann sell it in the USA already you just need the approval info. If it's a UK designed widget with electronics in it, or a UK motorising kit or similar, have fun.

And while checking, I found this. Nice range.


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u1-bg4Pn_7k

Quote from: Moonglum on October 13, 2026, 08:02:42 PMLove this...

Tim

Had me for a moment as I thought that Serge (synthesizer in the little window) made it back, but the video is 5 years old. He remained in Ukraine to help his parents.

I sent an email to a friendly lady called Andrea Bowen (Personnel & Accounts Manager). Her reply was most helpful;

"You give me your address, I will make up the sales order then you can check it, add or subtract from it."

Sounds good.
 

A somewhat eclectic day as regards what I listened to - some classical, some Bonzos, some Uriah Heep and some AC/DC

Thanks Tim @Moonglum .
Very nice indeed.

Heard this on Jazz FM the other day, Martin @port perran you might like this...


A bit trippy and 60s.

Tim

I thought I was the only one who couldn't remember their pre-orders!
Anyway, it's great that Dapol are progressing with these and they'll soon feature on our layouts. Hopefully the LMS suburbans won't be far behind.

Link here: https://s3-us-west-2.amazonaws.com/mrhpub.com/2026-10-oct/download.html

Jon

Surely locos would be exempt, but DCC controllers could well require an FCC ID.

That is only a part of the OP's post though, which suggests there are hoops to jump through for any electronic products.