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@FRENCHTRAINS posted:

Tinplate accessories from JEP, stations are all original and have been produced during a long time from the end of the twenties for the small ones to the end of JEP in 1964; there is just some color variations.

My favorite one is the biggest and all the lead people are French manufactured from MDM. Unfortunately JEP has never made those accessories in comparison with Hornby France or Great Britain who have made a lot of them.

have a nice weekend,  Daniel

Sorry to jump back to an earlier contribution but I'm catching up on a week's worth of posts today. Thanks for sharing these photos Daniel. By a coincidence, earlier today I noticed this JEP 5343 for sale on the Bay.

Fatman:  what a great post. Now I know what I might be hunting for in the way of motive power. Yes I knew the roof was using but I just couldn’t pass up that lithography on the station house. Seller I purchased from had one with a roof but wanted 3x the price, too rich for this guy so I keep hunting.

Thank you for all the pictures and info

Best Regards

Don

@O Gauge Guy posted:

Sorry to jump back to an earlier contribution but I'm catching up on a week's worth of posts today. Thanks for sharing these photos Daniel. By a coincidence, earlier today I noticed this JEP 5343 for sale on the Bay.

It is a very nice model in great condition, with the die cast guards on the sides an a light yellow color it dates from the last years of JEP, 1960-64.   Not common and very sought after....

Daniel

Hi Don

Got my vaccines because I'll be 86 in April.  Massachusetts opened up shots for over 75 in early February.

pd  Good spotting. That cute station is the Dorfan 425 which was also produced by Fandor as the 2042. Completely restored. Wrong color.Replaced windows. Still think it looks great.  Trees are Hornby.

Lew

Hot freight moving through Lionelville this afternoon

@asmith1440 posted:

Hot freight moving through Lionelville this afternoon

Love it. What is the motive power? Is this recent production?

On a related note, I want to double head two prewar locos that don't respond to the same voltage. My 262E needs more voltage than my 252 to get moving at least. Will one be dragging the other or is this ok?

Thanks Lew. I'd never seen a Dorfan 425 before, a sharp little piece. Congrats on the vaccine, BTW.

PD

Bought this Rich Art Fire Station on the auction site a few weeks back.  Finally got its new home on the layout finished this weekend was able to get it installed.  Now I just need to find some firefighters to staff it.



Thanks,
Tom

@vettekid68 posted:

Bought this Rich Art Fire Station on the auction site a few weeks back.  Finally got its new home on the layout finished this weekend was able to get it installed.  Now I just need to find some firefighters to staff it.



Thanks,
Tom

Glad it got a new home. I do still have the rare figures that they sold at the same time.

Steve

Thank you for offering up for sale Steve, it is a really neat piece.  I wasn't even aware they made figures to go with it, I'll have to keep an eye out for those.

Thanks,
Tom

@vettekid68 posted:

Thank you for offering up for sale Steve, it is a really neat piece.  I wasn't even aware they made figures to go with it, I'll have to keep an eye out for those.

Thanks,
Tom

I'll have to dig them out and take pictures. There were two sets, one with firefighter figures and another with people holding a trampoline and a lady that jumped onto it.

Steve

@vettekid68 posted:

Bought this Rich Art Fire Station on the auction site a few weeks back.  Finally got its new home on the layout finished this weekend was able to get it installed.  Now I just need to find some firefighters to staff it.



Thanks,
Tom

Here are the figure sets.

Hey Fatman:

Just catching up on the threads and saw the one you posted on the 26th Feb about the Australian made tinplate/toy trains. I also live in Australia, but on the other side of our big brown country, on the Gold Coast in Queensland.

My father bought me a brand new Ferris electric train toward the end of the 1950's, to the best of my recollection. I was about 7 or 8 years old, and he bought it to add to my Swiss Buco train set he also bought brand new some years earlier. These are the trains of my childhood and I have kept them safe and well all of these years.

Here are a couple of photos of the Ferris loco and tender in their original box. The picture on the top of the box is a little worse for wear, but then again, so is its owner!!!

Here is the loco and the tender pulling a small Hornby freight/passenger consist on my Buco layout.

Some close-ups of the loco and the tender. It is one of the few sets Ferris made where the open-frame motor and E unit solenoid for switching between forward and reverse (there's no neutral) were built into the tender, to drive the tender wheels via a worm and transfer gears. The steam loco just "free-wheels" in front of the tender, and is coupled via a solid footplate (still the original footplate). I've had to replace the original rubber traction tyres on the drive wheels with "O" rings......they work a treat!!!!

I have replaced the original pick-up spoons with Buco spoons, as I needed to move the pick-up spacing further apart so the loco/tender would not stall going through my Buco switches/turn-outs. I have kept the original spoons, and stored them in a plastic bag in the loco box.

The loco and tender still run just great, and switch between forward and reverse every time. That open framed motor is incredibly strong and can pull a stump out, even after all of these years!!!

Hope you enjoy.

Peter......Buco Australia.

Thanks Peter @Buco  I hadn't seen the tender drive version up close and personal  ... but it makes excellent sense as it is really a variation of their electric Suburban-type locomotives .... with a bogie drive rather than messing about with conventional locomotive configurations ... Its definately a showpiece you have there and , as we say in Australia  " Built like a brick shytehouse "  ( well not exactly that word , but it might get past the filter LOL! )

There are photos of the same drive used in their F53 Diesels in the ink below at Binns rd  and from memory the Interurban versions were the same bogie drive ... very swish for the time!

https://www.binnsroad.co.uk/ra...ys/ferris/index.html

big thumbs up from the bloke down south !

Hello Peter @ Buco:  As much as I love seeing tinplate trains and buildings;  I must ask, where did you find those wooden houses?  Did you make these?  Look great. Can you post a few pictures of these or any other you might have.  Thanks so much.

Hi waynew:

Thanks for the kind words about the timber railway stations on my layout. These wooden buildings are from the 1950's, and were made by the same Swiss company (Bucherer) that made my Buco tinplate trains, to replicate train stations in Switzerland.

There are several types of these buildings, and they were available as ready-built and painted structures, or you could order them in kit form, and glue and nail them together, and then paint them yourself.

I have 6 different ready-built structures on my layout, however the various Buco catalogs list 13 different wooden buildings to collect. All I know is when they come up for sale on either E-bay or on the Ricardo (Swiss) auction sites, they demand BIG money ($500.00 Aus +).

I will take the camera out to the garage later today and get you some photos.

Peter......Buco Australia.

Hey Fatman:

Thanks for the additional info on the various Ferris trains you could get back in the 1950's. I didn't know about the freight wagons, that was a real surprise!!!!, and the track and points as well!!!!

I have a R/H set of these same manual points in my collection. My father got them for me (second-hand) about the same time he bought the new Ferris train set. Didn't know who made them until just now!!! Thank you.

I also had, at one stage a couple of years ago, the suburban rail car set - one powered carriage that had the same bogie drive gears as on my tender, and one non-powered carriage that just had the free-wheeling trucks found at the back of the tender. Good use of parts by Ferris to keep the costs down.

I sold the set to an avid Ferris train collector here in Queensland.......I was happy and he was happy.

I also bought another Ferris loco off E-bay. This one had the same electric motor and E-unit, but they were fitted inside the body of the loco by Ferris. The motor drove the loco wheels via idler gears .....it was a "basket case" and not working. I was able to restore it back to full operation by re-wiring it, and installing a replacement Ferris E-unit. I have a bag full of these E-units I picked-up many years ago, just to keep for spare parts in case.

The small "domed bump" on the L/H side of my loco's body is there to cover a hole in the boiler for the screw cap of the brush mount of the motor. The motor was installed vertically (on its side) in this particular version of the loco, with the top brush screw cap protruding through the side of the boiler. This tinplate "dome" wasn't installed on this model, so as to provide access to the brush screw cap. Once again, a great way to keep manufacturing costs down, just use the same tooling for both variants.

Thanks again Fatman for the reference doc's.

By the way.......I thought you lived in Western Australia??????

Peter....Buco Australia.

Nah Pete @Buco  I am on the Vic/NSW border area about 25 k's south of the Murray in a little town no-one has ever heard of ( lol ) .. Population ... 8 ! ... we officially have more dogs than people! And as I like dogs more than most people it is very fortuitous to be here LOL!

Morning waynew:

Here are some photos of the timber buildings on my Buco layout I promised you.

These are two of the major railway stations produced by Buco. I have placed them side-by-side on my layout to give an extended platform area.

The first station is named "Neuchatel"

The second station is named "Brienz". Both stations have internal lighting that is connected to the external stand-alone Buco lamp stands at each end and in front of the platform (photo 1).

Small isolated "Island Platform" with simple "V" shaped roof.

Small points/switch operators hut. The "deluxe" version had a small signal bell stand on the front L/H corner.

The "Maggi Mill" with the wooden paddle wheel that actually turns via the pulley at the front. A spring belt connects it to a small electric motor that is mounted under the bench-top.

In all instances, the roofs hinge or lift off to access the internal lighting.

The slewing crane for freight loads that actually works. It has a rope brake attached to the winding crank handle to stop the heavy loads just dropping to the floor when the crank handle is released.

Finally, the Buco billboard (plastic). This is a modern release manufactured by the new Buco Spur O GmbH company in 2019. I purchased 2 of these billboards, and they stand at each end of the double station.

Hope you enjoy, and let me know if there is anything else you would like to know about my Buco O gauge collection/layout.

Peter  (Buco Australia)

@Buco posted:

Morning waynew:

Here are some photos of the timber buildings on my Buco layout I promised you.

These are two of the major railway stations produced by Buco. I have placed them side-by-side on my layout to give an extended platform area.

Peter  (Buco Australia)

Those items all look great!! I never heard of Buco before.   Did they also make the track? - I never saw O gauge tinplate rails quite like what you are showing here.  Also, what can you tell us about those flat cars with lumber loads?