French Hornby and JEP tinplate video

Hi Daniel,

Great video and beautiful and we'll running trains. One question, I watched some of his other videos and saw a 141p. Who made that engine, very very nice. I have been French tin plate for about eight years and have really fallen in love with the trains and accessories.

All the best,

Miketg

Hi Miketg,

The 141P is a JEP product. Made during 1957-64. It's one of the most search after JEP locomotive, many of them have zamack problems so it is hard to find a good one.

Nice to learn you have fallen in love with french trains, i have done the same with US ones...

All my best wishes,   Daniel

Enjoyed the video very much.  Thanks for posting this.

V'raiment Formidable! 

Hi, this video has brought me lots of joy.

I have never seen some of the examples. Wish to learn more on French tinplate.

Any suggestions?  Anyone?

1. Merci. thank you kindly.

Pierre.

The 6-minute video is very well done with excellent editing and good action shots from different angles and with different trains in operation. And it's really interesting to see the variety of unfamiliar European tinplate trains. Thanks for posting!

thanks for sharing!

Daniel, Are you in France?

do you have French tinplate trains? Might you Want to trade for  post war and compatible  3 rail for French trains? Prefer O gage.

I missed out on this experience being raised in USA with Lionel. I love my Lionels

I remember seeing some French tinplate at YORK...the prices seemed to be staggering!

I have seen this video you posted for the third time today!

Thanks so much.

Pierre

Yes Pierre, i am in France.  I have many french tinplate trains, all the models that are in the video and much more. Also have a nice selection of trains from USA, mainly Lionel O and standard gauge and AF also, in fact i have certainly way too much things in the collection....

I have seen some french tinplate at York, not the best quality and prices where a little high but i was more looking for Lionel standard gauge which is also a little expensive but so nice that i didn't look too much at french models.

Looking sometime on the world famous auction site i have seen some nice ones for sale in your country at affordable prices.

Very best,  Daniel

That was an enjoyable video...thanks for posting it. Besides the trains, I enjoyed seeing the signals and the interesting structures, such as the JEP Gare.

I have very little in the way of French equipment, but I do have two of the French Hornby Orient Express cars, seen in the video coupled to the French Hornby locomotive (light green over dark green with four portholes) and one Paris bus.

Very nice video of postwar Jep and Hornby.  I used to own more postwar Hornby, but decided to concentrate

on prewar and the beautiful Hornby #2 Special Wagons-Lits Pullmans made in France.  Tempted to acquire the

Etoile du Nord, but felt that the driving wheels were trop petit!!  I do have one "Saucisson coach" from that set.

Attached are two photos of my "Golden Arrow" including a "neverwazz" brake/combine created by the late

Maurice Launders.

Thank you Daniel. Yes most of the YORK  foreign French trains I saw were not only unaffordable they were of the doorstop quality however I am No expert.

And thanks to all that have sent photos of their  French treasures. 

Very interesting colorful objects of an age gone by.

Pierre.

One quirk with old Meccano 3-rail tubular track that I've seen (made in France): the center rail is slightly smaller and lower than the running rails. You can see this if you look closely at the video. I wondered if anyone has noticed whether the locos made to run on that track will run OK on typical Lionel tubular track, which has a slightly higher center rail?

Ace posted:

One quirk with old Meccano 3-rail tubular track that I've seen (made in France): the center rail is slightly smaller and lower than the running rails. You can see this if you look closely at the video. I wondered if anyone has noticed whether the locos made to run on that track will run OK on typical Lionel tubular track, which has a slightly higher center rail?

I run JEP and French Hornby on Lionel tubular track (the video is not for this time of the year ;-):

Regards

Fred

Ace posted:

One quirk with old Meccano 3-rail tubular track that I've seen (made in France): the center rail is slightly smaller and lower than the running rails. You can see this if you look closely at the video. I wondered if anyone has noticed whether the locos made to run on that track will run OK on typical Lionel tubular track, which has a slightly higher center rail?

You can run without any problem Lionel trains on hornby tracks and the opposite works perfectly also. The difference of height of the french Hornby tracks is minimal and doesn't affect anything. The lionel roller pick up, pre or post war, also runs well on Hornby tracks.

Daniel

Beutiful trains Daniel!  Thanks for posting.