25/28mm Train (Europe)

[thebinmann]

Hi

I just picked up the Western Express train set with 12 bonus tracks for a hypermarket in France (Auchan) for €17.00 EUR

I also saw a 1829 Steam Train which could be jus the "ticket" for Victorian, Pulp and Old West Scientist (Mad Profs from Deadlands)

I'm happy with my trains!
 

[cdtK]

Nice idea.

Have you picture of this?

[Lupus]

Damn was in France 3 week's ago..

[thebinmann]

the pack look like this:

http://www.toydistributor.com/goldlok/9668E.htm

for the 1829 its got similar coachs but the train is a "Rocket" style and yellow - so both need some painting!

http://www.hktdc.com/dir_en_manufacturer/Hong_Kong_1829_Locomotive_Suppliers.htm

[Geudens]

Hi

I just picked up the Western Express train set with 12 bonus tracks for a hypermarket in France (Auchan) for €17.00 EUR

I also saw a 1829 Steam Train which could be jus the "ticket" for Victorian, Pulp and Old West Scientist (Mad Profs from Deadlands)

I'm happy with my trains!
 

Nice!  She-who-must-not-know-what-I-spend  has been trying to make me drive to an Auchan.  I'll gladly give in now... 

Rudi

[WillieB]

Nice!  She-who-must-not-know-what-I-spend  has been trying to make me drive to an Auchan.  I'll gladly give in now... 

Rudi

I give her daily reports...

[Geudens]

Had to be near the French border in the Courtrai area today, so I did spend the extra 15 minutes to get to Auchan (Ronq) and bought the Rocket (ref 9688, see link below) model train.  The engine is indeed too large, but will make a great VSF project; but the tracks and carriages I'll use with the 2 "Green Line Express" trains (9684) I bought there at 9.99 Euros a piece.  There were 2 other sets available at the same price ("Continental Express" (9674) and "Western Express" 9669) ), but these I didn't buy since I already have similar stuff on the shelf.
If this would not have been the case, I would have bought them since they are so much 28mm scale!

Go to:
http://www.goldloktoys.com.hk/GL/
select:
Category "train play set"
Brand "train set"



I'm very happy with my purchase: one of the Green Line engines will be "armoured", the other just repainted (truly superb for VBCW/WWII games).

Rudi

[Big Martin]

They're great. Almost worth a trip to France to get them. Might have to see if I can spare a long weekend in the New Year.

[Geudens]

They're great. Almost worth a trip to France to get them. Might have to see if I can spare a long weekend in the New Year.

As far as Ronq is concerned, I'm afraid you can spare yourself the trip. I went down there yesterday with her-who-doesn't-know-I've-been-there-without-taking-her-along-to-buy-trains (how's that for a name?  ) and the shelf space taken previously by the trains was already filled with other stuff.  Appearantly this was not a "permanent" item, otherwise  - the reason why I looked there again - I would have offered here to buy some for those who were interested.  Sad thing.

Rudi

[Skrapwelder]

I managed to get a Green Line Express from E-bay and took a few pictures to show scale.


Engine and coal tender.

Room enough in the cab for a figure

I like the passenger cars.

I'm going to do a little work on it with something like this for a goal

[thebinmann]

Hi

Is it rude to ask how much the train was?

Binmann

[Geudens]

Hi

Is it rude to ask how much the train was?

Binmann

I paid  € 9.99 for mine at the Auchan store.

rudi

[Skrapwelder]

If I recall correctly it about $9 and then about the same for shipping.

[Lupus]

Thats not a bad price..

All i need to do is find one myself now

I hate hunting ebay for say trains i never know what to do to cut down on the thousands of bits you get in return.

[former user]

I can tell You....
You almost have to do research before You know what to buy

you will basically need 0 or S gauge, which is 32 and 22 mm respectively (the gauge of the track)
On30 is HO gauge (16,5 mm) in 0 scale (1/43-48)

try childrens' toys, not railway modelling and don't forget to ask for measurements before You buy.
waggons should be 5-6 cm wide to accomodate artillery with sandbags or vehicle loading. Also keep in mind when judging doors that train doors are usually a bit narrower because they had to accomodate for space restrictions. The main outlines for rolling stock were basically set when they started building tunnels on a large scale in the late 19C. this means that very old locos will have a small boiler and a high funnel. As boilers grew in size, the design had to be altered for length. Efficiency came later with double expansion, oil firing and steam turbines (but this is something you will notice on the models only if You know). Even with pivoting traction trucks, Locos can't exceed a certain length, and that'd be the end of the story (Big Boy and the like).
As a general guide, passenger locos will have very big traction wheels for speed but weaker pull, while goods locos will have small traction wheels for strong pull. There are also medium sized multi purpose ones for shorter distances.

and so on...