I find it very interesting how they went through so many different wheel arrangements. The two regular cars have proper, if very unusually made, wheel trucks; the caboose has two fixed axles and makes no effort to hide it; but the locomotive is clearly trying to look like a proper bo-bo despite being a 2-4-2. The wheel strangeness combined with the coupler design makes it very reminiscent of some of the Marx train sets, but at reduced scale.
I can see this being compatible with certain UK brands to an extent… Triang trains all had very bulky flanges, and as a result had bulky track to match, so with any luck it’d run half decently on a Triang layout, need I mention the couplers are also identical to Rosebud Kitmaster’s? (A brand of lovely plastic kits which I shan’t delve into here, but they’re definitely worth reading up on) albeit much bigger compared to RK’s
“West Germany?” I never knew it was stamp with. My stepdad was stationed in the U.S. Army Berlin (not exact sure) sometimes in the 1960’s at the time he was served in. So it kinda makes it sense, seemingly.
oh my goodness thank you. Ive got two of these (the red and black and the caboose) and never knew the manufacture thank you so Mutch for the information.
There's also a relation to a Japanese company named Nomura Toys, which used a lot of the same tooling, notably the Santa Fe set at 0:51. Don't know if Nomura was another name they used or they bought the tooling: ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-B8Pr0zuVre8.htmlfeature=shared
