Marescot/Fournereau--- ready for the reveal?

NICE find. Looks not too bad to me! :-)

Daniel is our French contact and expert on these trains. Maybe he will weigh in.

Interesting baggage car. It seems that it has been painted in the style of teak coaches maybe by a modeller who enjoy this style of train.  Those passenger cars where offered in kit forms or already assembled and painted. If you do not find it nice for you maybe a repaint would be the way to go.

Here is an original one, dark green and varnished, note that with time passing the varnish tends to yellow color.

All the best,   Daniel

@FRENCHTRAINS posted:

Interesting baggage car. It seems that it has been painted in the style of teak coaches maybe by a modeller who enjoy this style of train.  Those passenger cars where offered in kit forms or already assembled and painted. If you do not find it nice for you maybe a repaint would be the way to go.

Here is an original one, dark green and varnished, note that with time passing the varnish tends to yellow color.

All the best,   Daniel

That looks astonishingly similar to one of my vans, Daniel

They did indeed come in kit form - but I think it's an overpaint, so let's see what's beneath - otherwise it gets a new livery.

Btw, do you know if State Network ever exported any of their rolling stock to North Africa for use on the lines there?

Best,

Nigel

The railways of North Africa where totally different from France.  There where several gauges, I think four, but mainly standard as in Europe for the main lines.

Due to a different type of climate, very hot and a lot of sand everywhere they used very specific models, or modified ones from the french Railways, they used very nice locos as Garrats on metric railways.  To my knowledge there where no use of old models from the Etat Railways. After the second world war the common trains used where those of the SNCF with some specific filters and coolers, it was mainly diesel models.

All my best wishes,  Daniel

That's good to know - thank you so much. Appreciate that.

Best,

Nigel

@eNeMaR 1928 posted:

Seems some eager modeller (I know you're our there ...) either over-painted this fourgon à bagages, or did a really poor job from the outset ... what do you think? First option means there's treasure underneath, second one means there isn't and what you see is the (bad) original. Personally, my money is on the over-paint. We shall see ...

And, the now-tidied version (it wasn't painted over, it was just painted badly originally ...), without losing any of the original paint, age or patina ..

Nice car, it doesn't look bad at all. patina is part of his age, i would keep it in as is condition.

Those cars where sold factory made and what we call today kit to assemble; it was a time without air brushes paint and modellers used pencils with lead paint to finish their models.

Enjoy this piece, good catch,   Daniel

It's really quite beautiful, given what they could do back then. I agree completely, Daniel.

Best,  Nigel