Tinplate photos 📸 and videos 📽

Hey Fatman & Don:

Saw your post and just had to "chime in".

Buco forever!!! Best 3 rail tinplate in the world!!!!

And still going strong some 70 years on.....here is a link to the Buco company in Switzerland that continues to manufacture pure tinplate Buco loco's, passenger cars, and rolling stock. https://buco-gmbh.ch/

I have also attached photos of some of my own personal "Buco creations" I have made using original Buco tinplate wagons and passenger cars, cutting them, and joining two together, to make a longer bogie wheeled car or wagon. These are the wagons Buco never made, but should have!!!

I have also turned one of the original bogie wheeled passenger carriage into a motorized "rail car". I used the original Buco body and chassis, removed both end access compartments off, added the standard Buco clockwork loco front and rear panels, installed LED headlights to both ends, and powered the whole thing using two diesel MTH motors, pick-ups and wheel trucks. Added an electronic E-unit board and bridge rectifier from JV Digital Engineering, and away it goes in forward or reverse.....smooth as silk!!!

My latest project.....taking the original Buco "drop-link" couplers off, and installing "Kadee" couplers.

Only done the conversion to a couple of selected loco's and some rolling stock at this stage.....don't want to "dilute the breed". They work at treat, look awesome, and I don't have to have "the hand of God" couple or uncouple my trains any more.

Hope you enjoy my tinplate fantasies.....stay well, and keep safe. Our Premier in Queensland has indicated we can "leave home" and come back again without any hotel quarantining come December 17, so look out Fatman, we will be on the move south, and you are on our radar!!!

Peter.....(Buco Australia) on the fabulous Gold Coast in sunny Queensland, Australia.