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This weekend there was the "Railexpo" exposition in Cergy-Pontoise, near Paris in France. Since there are a quite a few people enjoying European trains, I hope you'll like the pictures I took there this Friday. Unfortunately with the display cases and my camera getting older, not all pictures were in the best quality...

The exposition is a general model railway exposition, not specifically for 0-scale. However there were a lot of 0-scale models to see, much more than you would see in a typical exposition at home (Netherlands). 

 


Sikorsky Turbo Train which had both a diesel engine and a gas turbine, according to the internet a version of these were also exported to the USA as Turboliner. The model is 0-scale made by Arma, which made the models for the SNCF. It was part of a presentation from the French Railway museum in Mullhouse http://www.citedutrain.com/en which has a very nice collections of full-size locomotives.

 


Also directly at the entrance was the stand of Fulgurex with a very nice model of the "roter pfeil" in 0 scale.

 



Models for sale at Pierre Dominique

 



A lot of big French steam locomotives for sale, these seemed to be selling well since I saw them dissappear during the day.

 


A French lunch needs wine of course

 


Bemo has nice models in 0m, we're seeing them more and more

 


Repainting of models for French prototypes, also ETS is going to make a French 030T locomotive

 


Various models for sale.




This company mostly had h0 models, but a few cardboard buildings in 0 scale.

 


LMJ figurines holding working lanterns

 


Display case of Twerenbold with 1 scale models

 



Also mostly 1 scale with Aster, but they had an 0 scale model of a Big Boy. Also Swiss chocolates

 



Association of railway modellers with homebuilt models and a 3-rail layout





In scale h0 a layou "Les Gorges du Telegrphe"




Brass building demonstration in 0 scale



Also a layout I liked very much from "CLUB MODELISTE D'ALBENS" in scale h0

 


A small large-scale layout "Hansen Fisk"

 


Narrow-gage 0-scale

 



A large double-oval 0 scale layout. In the background finally a French steam locomotive that I like

 


Troughout the exposition were various smaller layouts like this one

 


Sans pareil petit Train de France

 


More buildings in 0 scale, this time in plastic

 


Aubertrain had a set of French 0m narrow gauge passenger car kits and a locomotive

 


Also 0 scale locomotives, i think Lemaco?



Some more 0 scale buildings

 


Ellettren makes Italian locomotives and a lot of different passenger cars.

 


Handpainted lead figures in 0 scale.

 


This is h0, but Hornby is rereleasing TGV's in different liveries under the Jouef brand. Now those TGV's are nice trains

 


Unfortunately this pictures don't give a good impression of the layout. The layout was in a box and in front of the rail was a glass plate upon which a video was projected. This was synchronized to the train, so when the train arrived, you could see the doors open and people getting out. After the train left, people were picking up their luggage, drinking a bottle of wine and the leaving the station.

 


More 0 scale figurines and signals from haxo.

 


Badly overpainted MTH Crocodile for 1750 euro.

 


KIT ZERO

 



AMJL display cases with 0 scale models

 



American-built 140G "Pershing" locomotive at the neigbouring stand.

 


Another of those nice small layouts.

 


R37 models is bringing out models of French passenger wagons.

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Thank you for posting these great photos.  I am especially appreciative of the first photo, not for the model of the turbotrain -- the ETG type, which first appeared in 1969 and was the predecessor of the 1972 all-turbo RTG, the type Amtrak purchased -- but rather for the nameplate of the display base it is sitting on !  This was a missing link in wondering about the ancestry of a number of static display models in 1:43.5 on that style base that SNCF apparently supplied to its offices and major travel agencies in that late sixties timeframe -- and why it seemed to have a Darstead connection.   Any other forumites remember or have some of those models ?

 

With best regards, SZ

 

PS  I trust you know the story of the bleu 230 K's.....

 @Harmon: Yes, the Kit Zero are available for builders. However I think it will be hard getting one, the guy at Railexpo only spoke French. http://www.train35.fr/kitzero.html has a few models listed and contact details but it doesn't look like it's a webshop. 

Another option is Semblat, http://benoit.semblat.free.fr/locoalbum.html who also has very nice models. Here is a description of building such a model: http://spoor0.blogspot.nl/search/label/141R 

@Steinzeit: I'm not really knowledgeable about French steam, just think a steam locomotive should be black and red   . I visited Mullhouse last year, that was a nice museum though. They also have some more of the Arma models there, I'll have to look on my computer too see if I have more pictures. And recently a TGV Atlantique model was sold, but that was rather expensive.

 

Thanks for the list of websites.  Detail level of these kits is incredible!  Lucky stiffs that are able to get models of this quality.  Somebody must be building or these kits would not be produced - building here is rapidly becoming extinct.  Buying a model is NOT the same as building one.  I remember Bob Smith (Central Locomotive Works) telling me each kit built model will have a different personality even though the kits all started out the same.  What I miss most about the model meets these days is the lack of fellows who brought their models to show what they had built or were working on.  I always learned a lot at those shows.  Very inspirational for me.  Thanks again for sharing your post!

Wow, great photos, thanks for posting them.

Like most US train fans, I am mostly interested in American prototypes, but I spent some time in Europe (mostly the Netherlands) when I was much younger so I have a keen interest in EU railroads as well. I'd love to see a show of this type someday.

there were many builders there in France, but not when compared to the show I visited in the UK. That's the nice thing here, you can just drive to France, UK, Germany, Switzerland or Czech Republic for a weekend   . I've never ridden with the TGV, but there's a station where they have 4 adjacent tracks where you can stand on the platform and TGV's race past at full speed on the middle tracks. That was a nice place for trainspotting, although mostly you're standing on an empty platform and then a couple of seconds of a train passing by.

 The name is the Dutch variant of Michael, always difficult with English speakers   

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