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The stainless steel coaches indeed ran with a CIWL restaurant and Pullman car with a 241P; this was the Mistral day-train from Paris to the Cote dÁzur. The Kitmaster stainless steel coach would be a nice combination with the Revell coaches, I think. The should however have the Mistral lettering like this LS Models version: Revell made a restaurant car and a Pullman (saloon) car, not a sleeper. The restaurant car kit includes interior and CIWL decals. The original CIWL number on the decals is 2975. This number is also used by Jouef for their restaurant car. This Revell kit and the Jouef WR seems to be based on the same moulds. Regards Fred

Hello Paul, Are you looking for 2-rail or 3-rail track (many modern ACE locomotives are switchable)? And do you want tinplate style track or more modern track with a plastic base? If you are looking for 3-rail tinplate track Merkur is a good choice. These can be bought from https://www.blik-en-speelgoed.nl/ in the Netherlands (I see you are in Belgium). I can recommend an LGB Jumbo transformer, but that might be a bit expensive solution. Regards Fred

Two more shiny ones, Sir Dinadan and LNER tank: Regards Fred

A small correction if I am allowed. Both KB as well as KBN are trademarks used by Karl Bub Nurnberg. GBN (for Gebrüder Bing Nurnberg) is the trademark Bing used. Regards Fred

There is a French (small) book in a series by Jean-Paul Lepage about the Type F CIWL sleepers (Les Voitures Lits Type F de la CIWL). I do not have this booklet, but a couple of the others in these series and they have drawing and lots of information. Further you might take a look at the LS Models models of these cars. They are, like all LS Models products, very good representations (but of course to a scale of 1:87): Regards Fred

I do also collect brass models (American and European (only steam outline locomotives)), but I also do like and do collect models and toys of other material. Recently some of the older brass models can be got at a bargain price; recent brass is still very expensive in my view. I have made a video presenting some of my American brass models: https://youtu.be/QI-mpwhtpw0 Regards Fred

I noticed this pointer to the e-book (.pdf) I made on CIWL cars, including the F(erry) type sleeping cars. The newest version of this book can always be seen and/or downloaded (for free, i.e. at no cost of course!) from my website (http://sncf231e.nl/) or directly: http://sncf231e.nl/ciwl-carriages-by-fredsmall/. Another interesting book (I think) is a book on models of Non-CIWL luxury trains, which includes a couple of British luxury trains, some of them in 00 gauge (and some of these again by Hornby). It can be seen here: http://sncf231e.nl/non-ciwl-luxury-trainssmall-2/ There are more e-books I made on my website; one on models of LNER Pacifics might also be of interest: http://sncf231e.nl/lner-pacifics-and-nyc-hudsons/ Regards Fred

Here is a picture of an M0 next to an M1: And here are M1's running in my garden: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y1OCkY8ca9w And M0: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TFQm0pFqTy0 Regards Fred

The person who had done this to the 0-4-0 on the video still also has some clockwork locos (he has lots of Hornby). He is a member of the DutchHRCA: http://www.dutchhrca.nl/collnk.htm Regards Fred

Most AC motors run on DC as well, however changing the polarity will not change the running direction. I run most of my Hornby and JEP with a LGB power supply. Regards Fred

Is this the one? http://www.ngdr.net/Manifold/Clockwork/ClockworkARM1G/index.html And here the video of it: https://youtu.be/FqrEiEOE-VQ Regards Fred

The first loco in the clip has the body of a Hornby postwar 0-4-0 tank-locomotive but it has the mechanism of an electric 0-4-0 (it is not one of my locos). I do have the clockwork version, also in LNER and LMS, and they still run: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=87wHKiADgxA Regards Fred

Yes, I oiled the engine, but did not use the oil from the set. I left the Triang oil bottle unopened. Regards Fred

Recently at a swap-meet I found this new old stock Triang train set RS29 from 1963 with B12 4-6-0 locomotive and 2 coaches. I made a video presentation of it: https://youtu.be/YR5Oplr9CjE Regards Fred

This weekend I spent 2 days with the Dutch HRCA group at the yearly Eurospoor exhibition in Utrecht. Besides Hornby we also ran trains of the current coarse scale world like ACE and Darstaed. A couple of years ago I brought among some electric tinplate trains a clockwork Hornby loco with some coaches to Eurospoor and had a couple of runs. It was clear to me that my DHRCA colleagues and the public were not interested. This weekend one of the newer members also brought some clockwork trains to run and it looked like he and I were the only interested in clockwork. So I appreciate your thought but I am afraid there is not much market for it. Here a video I made of the trains running on Friday; at the end a clockwork one! "https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=StuLhlpfRNM" Regards Fred

I think it is the 040TA but without is rear axle (bottom of the 2 pictures): Regards Fred

You need that kind of power when you run a couple of larger Lionel locomotives with a lighted train; I have a 400W MTH controller that delivers 10 amps to each of the two circuits you can control (and two fixed voltage 3 amps outputs for trackside accessories). Regards Fred

I use normal 60W bulbs as can be seen here: https://youtu.be/NEr-9xrJDMw Regards Fred

I do not have a Hornby High voltage loco but do have a Märklin High voltage (Starkstrom). I tried it with the lamp controller and directly with a variac. It needed about 50 Volts from the Variac. With the lamp controller: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MAzrdx_uFgI With the Variac: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Uk7_c_kNDr8 Regards Fred

American Flyer 0 gauge and S gauge had in general 4 positions reverse units; later cheaper S gauge locomotives had 2 positions reverse units. Regards Fred

Dave, In the US Lionel and MTH still make locomotives with sequence reversers; of course it is all electronic now (no mechanical relay) but thousands of Americans are used to it. Regards Fred