R208 Jouef Playcraft 'Decauville' 0 4 0

[@martindaredare]

Interesting video and a good repair, getting it running the right way

[@alanobiwala6822]

Great, another informative video which helps others and adds to your "Phoenix" locomotives collection. Keep up the good work 🙂👍

[@SoRTs6233]

Thanks Alan. Yes, another loco rides the rails!

[@radiator0]

Excellent upload Jim, Hope your keeping well. My Farish Mainline HST is still running fine cheers.... G..

[@SoRTs6233]

Hi Gary, great hearing from you again! Good news about your HST, I still like looking at the video to see it run. Haven't picked up one of my own, yet. Wife and I are both doing well, thanks fro asking. Hope all is well with you! Cheers, Jim L

[@CZ350tuner]

I have a 1970's Jouef dark blue #5 0-4-0T Eigerbahn H09 loco which also runs the opposite way o my other Lima N guage Plymouth 0-4-0 diesel shunter chassis based 009 steam tram loco. I just accept that it's down to the French being annoyingly awkward, as usual. After all, they call the North Atlantic Treaty Organisation OTAN and E-Mail "Le poste electronique". You can switch the direction by reverse magnetising the motor magnet.

[@SoRTs6233]

Thanks for the insight. I didn't know about the reverse magnetism. I'll give that a go sometimes. At the moment, I'm happy that the Decauville is running as it is. French syntax does reverse sentence order (nouns before adjectives, etc, but reversing locos?) Thanks for looking

[@CZ350tuner]

@@SoRTs6233 Jouef also made H09 / 009 set track for their narrow guage train set range. It turns up on E-Bay occasionally. I was given my Jouef Eigerbahn loco by a friend, in the early 2000's. He'd found it in a car boot sale. It was easy to fix, requiring me to fabricate new pick ups to replace the missing ones. I built a circular layout, with a siding and station platform, on one of those small round chipboard tables. Control is via a 1950's Triang RT-42 circuit controller powered by an old laptop switch mode power supply. The track & point is all Peco 009.