Hi dear Patrick a beautiful French train Loco is superb and coaches are really nice, a big like my friend have a nice week alberto 🚂🚂🚂🚂🚂🚂😊😊😊😊😊😊😊😊👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍
I converted my early 1970's Hornby Black 5 from tender to loco drive, back in the 1980's. I removed the blanking weight, on the loco's chassis and installed an Airfix 5 pole motor. I also had to fit a worm cog onto the rear axle. The powered tender was removed and replaced with an early 1960's British Railways lined black R.32 tender, from an R.50 Princess. When I first ran it, at my local model railway club, it received some astonished looks when it was seen to wheel spin. The loco is still used on my layout and was last run last week, hauling a freight train.
I've seen that tender driven Jouef loco you put in the link, it is noisy indeed and seems to run with some problems. It is nothing to understand in such a flaw of design like a dummy loco without even some pickups - it is a bad design and that's it. I do not have such a tender driven locomotive, but as far as I've read and seen on the forums, Piko or Roco are better in design in this aspect. I don't know, maybe such products should be avoided or, at least, sold at very low prices...
I have, fortunately, only one French loco (1-4-0 SNCF sound) from Jouef, with weak sounds and little variety.... The Roco 2-3-1 SNCF sound has something more but costs almost €600 and in my opinion it is not worth it (the right price would be around €364). REE Modeles makes both locomotives (231 and 141) with sound and dynamic smoke (the smoke comes out of both the double smokestack and the cylinders) at a slightly higher cost than the Roco but with a much better effect (including the volume of the sound and its Variety). To have the same characteristics you have to go for the Roco DB10 (same cost) or the American BLI and MTH. So, finally, the Jouef sound version has a disproportionate cost for what it offers!
@@Tripper714 contemporary locomotives are very interesting, but way above my price range. I paid this 1960s 231C60 €35.00, but I only run vintage stock, being interested in the fascinating diversity of the mechanisms adopted by each manufacturer. If I were to venture into the world of contemporary products and DCC, I'd definitely try and invest my money well, maybe on an Italian FS steam locomotive. But I'm content with old-school model trains.
I have a good collection of the vintage Jouef models including diesels and rolling stock. Some of the drivebelt mechanisms can be a bit fiddly to get running. Other than that, the rest are easy to maintain. The tyres need to fit snuggly in the wheels of the models that employ them. I think that is where most problems arise. Tightly fitting drivebelts will cause the motors to cook, so finding replacement belts can be tricky.
@@stevenpeaketrainsandstuff3682 I've got two drive belt Jouef steam locos, I replaced the decayed belts with new ones in clear silicone rubber that I bought on eBay. I like Jouef locos and stock
Hi dear Patrick
a beautiful French train
Loco is superb and coaches are really nice, a big like my friend
have a nice week alberto 🚂🚂🚂🚂🚂🚂😊😊😊😊😊😊😊😊👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍
I converted my early 1970's Hornby Black 5 from tender to loco drive, back in the 1980's. I removed the blanking weight, on the loco's chassis and installed an Airfix 5 pole motor. I also had to fit a worm cog onto the rear axle. The powered tender was removed and replaced with an early 1960's British Railways lined black R.32 tender, from an R.50 Princess. When I first ran it, at my local model railway club, it received some astonished looks when it was seen to wheel spin. The loco is still used on my layout and was last run last week, hauling a freight train.
@@CZ350tuner that's something I'd like to try!
I've seen that tender driven Jouef loco you put in the link, it is noisy indeed and seems to run with some problems. It is nothing to understand in such a flaw of design like a dummy loco without even some pickups - it is a bad design and that's it. I do not have such a tender driven locomotive, but as far as I've read and seen on the forums, Piko or Roco are better in design in this aspect. I don't know, maybe such products should be avoided or, at least, sold at very low prices...
I have, fortunately, only one French loco (1-4-0 SNCF sound) from Jouef, with weak sounds and little variety.... The Roco 2-3-1 SNCF sound has something more but costs almost €600 and in my opinion it is not worth it (the right price would be around €364). REE Modeles makes both locomotives (231 and 141) with sound and dynamic smoke (the smoke comes out of both the double smokestack and the cylinders) at a slightly higher cost than the Roco but with a much better effect (including the volume of the sound and its Variety). To have the same characteristics you have to go for the Roco DB10 (same cost) or the American BLI and MTH. So, finally, the Jouef sound version has a disproportionate cost for what it offers!
@@Tripper714 contemporary locomotives are very interesting, but way above my price range. I paid this 1960s 231C60 €35.00, but I only run vintage stock, being interested in the fascinating diversity of the mechanisms adopted by each manufacturer. If I were to venture into the world of contemporary products and DCC, I'd definitely try and invest my money well, maybe on an Italian FS steam locomotive. But I'm content with old-school model trains.
I have a good collection of the vintage Jouef models including diesels and rolling stock. Some of the drivebelt mechanisms can be a bit fiddly to get running. Other than that, the rest are easy to maintain. The tyres need to fit snuggly in the wheels of the models that employ them. I think that is where most problems arise. Tightly fitting drivebelts will cause the motors to cook, so finding replacement belts can be tricky.
@@stevenpeaketrainsandstuff3682 I've got two drive belt Jouef steam locos, I replaced the decayed belts with new ones in clear silicone rubber that I bought on eBay. I like Jouef locos and stock
@@patricksmodels I would be interested know the supplier of the silicone bands you are using thanks Patrick.