TRAIN TIME: My Kraus-Fandor Train

So here's my Kraus-Fandor train. The cars are lettered for the "PENNSYLVANIA LINES", with one No. 903 Express Service Baggage, and two each No. 105 Coaches. Enjoy! Opa Fritz

TRAIN TIME: Kraus-Fandor Clockwork Engine

Here's the engine I bought to go along with the Kraus-Fandor Station and footbridge. It's generally a European-outline engine but has a removable cowcatcher for consumption in the American market. I have run it and it is a decent runner, but unfortunately haven't yet recorded a video and right now  EVERYTHING out in The Cave is inaccessible (long story) so it may be a while before I can get a decent video posted. Enjoy! Opa Fritz

TRAIN TIME: Kraus-Fandor Footbridge

Sooo, the story behind this series of posts I'll be doing is this: some years back I was getting kinda hot-&-heavy into wind-up/clockwork trains and started going nutso buying whatever suited my fancy. This was the same time I was building my Hornby 2-rail layout and I was experimenting with different brands and different looks. Some of my buys were cool and I liked them a lot. Others? Not so much. I bought a few things from Kraus-Fandor and overall was quite pleased with them, but just never got around to buying more than what you'll see in the next couple of posts. This footbridge is a lovely pre-war design - a little rough - but quite serviceable. I did manage to record the dimensions for this piece: 13 3/4" (34.92cm) W x 3" (7.62cm) D x 8 1/4" (20.95cm) H. I had a bit of a problem photographing this but the bridge is dark green with red bases. Enjoy! Opa Fritz

TRAIN TIME: Kraus-Fandor Railroad Station and a Quick COVID Update

Well, I went back to work this Monday but that damn COVID still has me by the cajones! I have a small but fairly persistent cough, a temerature that won't stabilize, some gastro-intestinal issue, and worst of all: fatigue. It seems I can't get up and do much at all without tiring easily. DAMN! Today I'm off of work for a different reason - sprained my ankle! LOL When it rains it pours!

So what the hell, I might as well start in again posting. This past week I was posting a lot of albums into one of my fb groups and along the way found out that I had a ton of photos I took but never edited! WTF? Really! Some of them were re-takes of toy photos taken years back and then I decided to do updates aretook a lot of photos. That works for me. For no other reason than it came to mind first, let's start with this nifty Kraus-Fandor Pre-war tin-litho station. Kraus-Fandor was a German company but this station was made for export as it clearly says "STATION" on the front vs. "BAHNHOFF". I never got around to taking down the dimension for this and right now the station is in a hard to access location out in The Cave. In any case - Enjoy! Opa Fritz