Joe Works - Flying Zoo brass locomotives and cars in HOn30

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6 жыл бұрын

After the ROCO Minitrains HOn30 (HOn2 1/2) (HOe) (HOn) became popular Joe Works of Japan started offering brass kits and later brass locomotives in HOn30.
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The kits were a blast to build!! Fun and generally easy, very easy as brass kits go. All photo etched with white metal castings, the finished models looked great! The locomotive kits were difficult to get to run well, mostly because the electrical pickup was a real challenge. So we left out the motors.
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Later they released ready to run brass shays and other geared locomotives which were amazing!!
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The scale-gauge was short lived, mostly dying off in the 1990s. Still modeled by some, it was sort of a fad in its time.

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@dirk4926 6 жыл бұрын

Very cool little locos

@ToyManTelevision 6 жыл бұрын

So fun to build

@realmagicjon 6 жыл бұрын

I come home form work feeling tired,but you two screwing around gives me a breath of fresh air.

@nathancorcoran5347 4 жыл бұрын

I’ve always love the Shay steam locomotives, along with the Heisler and the Climax.

@ToyManTelevision 4 жыл бұрын

Geared are fun!!

@officialpennsyjoe 6 жыл бұрын

Those are all really nice brass models.

@ToyManTelevision 6 жыл бұрын

Their fun to build!!

@Wandering1500 6 жыл бұрын

The UK and EU equivalents of HOn30, 009 and HOe respectively are still going strong.

@vincentcalvelli6452 6 жыл бұрын

Major coolness!

@kerridillon3120 6 жыл бұрын

You make even the smallest details interesting! Happy everything to you Dale & Karyn!

@ritaloy8338 6 жыл бұрын

What a great example of some of the past of what Toy Man does best, Screwing Around. You just have to love this. I know that I sure would. 😍

@ToyManTelevision 6 жыл бұрын

Sure love these little trains. Coments here say they are still popular in europe!

@ritaloy8338 6 жыл бұрын

Toy Man Television maybe we need to look to European model shops

@plasticbutcher 6 жыл бұрын

Those kits are Too cool, love the little Shay, which happens to be my favorite small steamer Rick B aka Plastic butcher

@ToyManTelevision 6 жыл бұрын

Love that little loco. Very popular! Still around, for about 550 now... As you can see I paid 150, which was the list price in the late 80's when it came out. Runs well. Wonder it I could figure out how to put DCC on board?

@powderriver2424 6 жыл бұрын

In the late 70’s early 80’s I remember wearing out the pages of the Walter catalogue. I was blessed to have a little hobby shop in my town growing up the owner took pity on me as I was his best customer, with no money, however when I did have some I spent like a drunken sailor.

@ToyManTelevision 6 жыл бұрын

We had several hobby shops and I was well know at all of them. From the time I could point and say TRAINS!!

@greguzar8233 6 жыл бұрын

"You are a better man than I.." I cannot begin to imagine what it was like working on this inky-dinky stuff. That would be a hoot to see run, sometime. Better you film it so we can actually see it. Fun stuff, you two. Greg and Jeanne

@Marshcreekmini 6 жыл бұрын

HOn30 is making a comeback. Minitrains.eu is offering some of the most fantastic running HOn30 locomotives you'll ever see. And they're dang cute. With the help of 3D printing and laser cutting some companies are offering really neat stuff in the Scale. The best part of HOn30 is you get the availability of HO scale structures and accessories, but you can fit it in N scale space.

@matthewlastrapes8104 6 жыл бұрын

Loved it

@ToyManTelevision 6 жыл бұрын

thanks!!

@scooby19784 6 жыл бұрын

Love your canada shirts

@ToyManTelevision 6 жыл бұрын

Just to remind out friends to the north, we love you!!! My roommate a few years ago was an illegal from Canada. One of our friends was illegal from Germany. Still very close friends. The canadian is now a citizen (got married) and the German was deported and we got it fixed after a year and about 20K in fees. He too got married, great asset to America. ANYWAY, we love Canada!!! And America!!

@PeachyFennec 4 жыл бұрын

I model HOn30 myself! its a real shame how rare it is in the states because its such a fun gauge!

@ToyManTelevision 4 жыл бұрын

Right? Odd it sort of went away in America. Popular everywhere else.

@iannarita9816 6 жыл бұрын

Thx again

@ToyManTelevision 6 жыл бұрын

You are very welcome!!

@shaygetz52 3 жыл бұрын

I still model HOn30...been looking for one of those Joe Works Shays for a long time...

@cbgadget4740 6 жыл бұрын

Very nice, love your videos 👍👍😎😎🚂🚂🚀🚀

@ToyManTelevision 6 жыл бұрын

thanks!!!

@keithstamper3648 6 жыл бұрын

Love your shirts...........

@ToyManTelevision 6 жыл бұрын

Friends always.

@railfanx4903 6 жыл бұрын

Awesome video guys! I forgot how tiny those trains were! Love the loft. Keep up the great work. I love your videos. Very entertaining and informative and I look up to you when it comes to creating videos. Have a great week!

@ToyManTelevision 6 жыл бұрын

Thanks. We need a little layout for these little guys!!!

@railfanx4903 6 жыл бұрын

Toy Man Television definitely! A small display layout will look neat. Of course you will need an N Scale layout too!

@ToyManTelevision 6 жыл бұрын

TRUE. But I was thinking of something in an old suitcase. Layout for the traveling salesman...

@railfanx4903 6 жыл бұрын

Toy Man Television yes that will work and you can promote the scale and the products. Plus show hobbyists you don't need a large space

@smalllocoguy770 6 жыл бұрын

i do alot of HOn30 or 009 as its called in the UK ive done a few brass kits and some white metal this gauge has made a comback with minitrains starting up again and roco also doing locomotives and bachmann have done a model of a WD baldwin 10-12D its DCC ready and can have sound fitted ive also made locomotives out of scrap bits and im now starting to make new locomotives for are model clubs layout oh and those kits you have look amazing you realy need to bulid a small HOn30/009 layout👍

@Brianrockrailfan 6 жыл бұрын

very neat toy man television :)

@ToyManTelevision 6 жыл бұрын

These things are a hoot!! (toot?) Anyway, fun...

@lescobrandon3047 6 жыл бұрын

The best.

@bartholomewsorrentino9013 6 жыл бұрын

Interesting that you should blow the dust off the little passenger car. How do you dust and keep clean everything in garagemahol? Do you have some sort of circulating air filtering system?

@ToyManTelevision 6 жыл бұрын

Yes. High tec. Me blowing off dust! Mostly stuff in in cases and boxes and that helps. Air compressor and nozzle for the big jobs!!

@hornhospital 6 жыл бұрын

Just looked on eBay....that Shay is available, for a mere $575. Holy cow!

@ryanwest4599 4 жыл бұрын

Does HOn3 run on n scale track? I'm looking into getting a brass K-27 in HOn3, but i want to make sure it will run on n scale track before i buy it.

@ToyManTelevision 4 жыл бұрын

Hi. And NO. HOn3 is a bit wider. N gauge works out to HOn 2 1/2 also known as HOe and HOn 30. It different by 6 scale inches. Which in HO isn’t much. But it won’t work.

@ryanwest4599 4 жыл бұрын

@@ToyManTelevision Thank you for this information. Im probably going to purchase the model and start a HOn3 layout.

@ToyManTelevision 4 жыл бұрын

It’s a great scale gauge. Early models hard to get to run smoothly but the modern blackstone models are amazing

@timothyboles6457 2 жыл бұрын

I have the Mich-Cal version of the Flying Zoo series. And not long ago I acquired a Mason Bogie. Already built up and painted. Then I also acquired one of the new reproductions of the small Forney and a passenger car. The reproduction equipment ran well But has disappeared from the market. Not sure what happened

@shayengineer10 5 жыл бұрын

How about N scale running on Z scale track?

@ToyManTelevision 5 жыл бұрын

yup! They make that. Nn3. Not much out there but look it up WOW!!!

@pbyfr 6 жыл бұрын

I remember these ads for Joe Works in the French magazines at that time. I still must have somewhere an A4 ad with several Joe Works locomotive and stuff on it. As I was just starting to do narrow gauge, the American typed models made it less attractive to me than the ready to run Roco. I don't think that Joe Works still exists, but like Tenshodo, the many other narrow gauge Japanese maker are now doing a lot of Japanese prototype, no more American. I bought (and build) two On30 Aru Model kit, but they have even more choice in HOn30: arumo.a.la9.jp/arf1.htm On30: arumo.a.la9.jp/arf2.htm As like build kits, N scale may not be so attractive to me, but these Japanese N scale kit are tempting: arumo.a.la9.jp/rnf0001.htm

@ToyManTelevision 6 жыл бұрын

I heard the guy (and his wife) I met back in 1984 at the narrow gauge convention that started Joe Works has died... Geeee. He was so young. Geee so was I.... Geeeeee that was 35 years ago....