Egger bahn Joueff Railcar

[Tony Clarke]

Please can anyone tell me how to separate the motor chassis from the body.  My railcar was not running very well  and I managed to remove the motor and clean it up with the chassis still in the body but reassembly was difficult and would be so much easier if I could have removed the whole chassis. It now runs quite well.
From Brian Meldon's article in August 2014 009 News I have concluded that my model  was manufactured by Joueff between 1968 and 1972 as the wheels on the trailing bogie have grey plastic insulators. The EB on the cab side is moulded but not gold painted and the front headlamp is silver. I hope this helps to pinpoint the model I have.

[B.Meldon]

The chassis is secured with the screw located between the wheels on the underside of the chassis.

However please note that this screw also holds the lower keeper plate in place so the axles, the magnet yoke and the small gears can easily fall out when you undo it.

It is not uncommon for the screw hole in the body to get damaged so it no longer holds the chassis in place. When this happens I have known people to fit a nut on the screw (it is an M2 thread) and then glue the chassis in place in the body.

You are lucky to find one of these 1968-1972 Jouef made chassis that runs ok, most are not great, also please note that they do ware out quite quickly with use.

Try not to loose the small gears as they are quite expensive to replace.

[Tony Clarke]

Thank you for the information and the warning.

[Elmgate]

The original chassis can be replaced by the Minitrains Gmeinder or Contractors loco chassis - or with a bit more work the Koppell/Krauss one. I described this in October 2014 009 News. Hope this helps!

Tim Sanderson

[B.Meldon]

Yes and no. The distance between the back of the motor to the rear wheels is longer on the Minitrains chassis than it is on the original Egger chassis. The result is the wheels will be further away from the front end of the railcar and this will make it look a bit odd compaired to the original wheel spacing. This is the same problem with using the Minitrains chassis in any of the Egger locos, it can be made to fit but it looks a bit odd.