sncf231e posted:We go to Spain today!
Here are some pictures of a newly acquired 0 gauge 3-rail electric JOSFEL 2-4-0 which is some 70 years old. JOSFEL is a Spanish brand which started making toy-trains around 1940. The history of JOSFEL is (like more Spanish brands) rather obscure, but the Spanish brand Electrotren (now owned by Hornby and making H0 trains) is a derivative.
Regards
Fred
Fred:
This is great stuff.
Spain in 1940 -- just 4 years after the Spanish Civil war and just as Franco's dictatorship was getting underway -- seems light years away from today.
You might take these trains and stage a France/Spain border scene in which passengers change trains to continue their journeys. As I'm sure you know, it wasn't until the 1990s that Spain began regauging some of its track and equipment to match the rest of Europe. A vignette of passengers walking across a platform labled "Irun" from the JOSFEL train to a JEP train might make a nice period piece.
Thanks for sharing.
Steven J. Serenska
