Faller Model Trains
Beverly Zielonko
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FALLER GmbH is BIG IN SMALL THINGS. The company has been manufacturing building kits and matching accessories suited to scale modeling for 75 years now. A model railway layout does not only consist of tracks, trains and railway stations but is just as versatile as reality itself. Therefore, FALLER offers everything you need to build a perfect layout.
Brands we stock are Marklin Marklin trains Marklin locomotives Marklin train sets Marklin track and accessories; Trix in HO and N gauges Trix trains and Minitrix trains; Fleischmann trains and accessories in HO and N gauge; Bachmann trains in HO; Kato in N gauge and HO; Roco trains, Walthers Proto-2000, steam locomotives diesel locomotives electric locomotives in HO and N gauge; accessories for layouts dioramas and train setups including lamps street lights buildings trees and electronics from Viessmann; Preiser figures hand painted and unpainted Preiser accessories, cars, wagons and kits for scales HO, N, 1, G and Z gauge; special Brands such as Faller, Kibri and Vollmer including a complete line of structures, bridges, buildings, houses and many other elements for your diorama or layout in scales HO and Z. Now NOCH full line of figures and material for your layout.
In the static World, Tamiya number 1 Worldwide with its sports cars, motorcycles, military 1/35 series now increased to 1/48 scale and the ready made collection MASTERWORKS, war ships, war airplanes, paints and accessories plus REVELL, Hasegawa, Trumpeter and special items from Revell Germany, Italeri, AMT and many others is only a small part on what is available in our Store.
Wood ships made by Ocio Creativo, Artesania Latina , Constructo and Model Shipways, the best quality wood kits and the perfect reproduction of long gone tall ships that crossed the seas in battles such as Trafalgar and many others, persecuting pirates and defending their flags, plus merchant ships that were the beginning of the actual merchant fleet and the most renowned Military school ships and flagships for USA and other European Countries.
The store stocks over 23.000 items which are hard to list here in their entirety, so we invite you to browse our Categories or Brands and check what you are looking for. If it is not there, just e-mail us at roc...@rocousa.com and we will take care of your request.
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I have been thinking as I planned the unfinished side of my Farland layout, it would be grand to have some other movement besides the trains. A Faller road as it turns out is fairly easy to design and to test your road design they suggest you use adhesive tape to hold the wire down as a test of your road design.
Hi Al
I really liked the Video sent in by Rob, it looks really easy, its a great pity that the Faller system is not available in 1:43 scale (O gauge)
I like all of the modeling stories, keep up the great work of bringing them all under one roof.
People moving would be great. Especially on waiting platform. Have the crowd on the platform when the train arrives then board. Mover could be like pulling them under the platform and when the train leaves, their gone., etc.
Can you tell me if the car(s) and set up come in O scale? Everything I have found does not show O scale. My layout is O scale and I would love to add movable
car(s) to my layout. Thanks for any and all help you can give me.
Hi All
Great to see some Faller on line i have been working with it for about 2 years and have 10 lorries and cars + i fire engine with DCC lights and sirens The tool to make the groove on road is called GROOVE CUTTER AND IS ITEM NO 161669 I may be able to answer any questions you have It gets great looks at show people now want to see everything moving
The brothers also started making model trees from green dyed sawdust that was applied on wires.
Dealing with this sawdust gave the brothers the idea to produce different litter material for model train hobbyists. The sawdust material was delivered by a sawmill and divided with sieves in different sizes. For 20 cents per hour the sieving and coloring was taken over by local schoolboys, whose hands turned green and brown for many days after the job. This scattering material turned out to be a real hit. In order to increase the production the brothers built a vibrating machine, but still the capacity of the drying oven was not enough to meet the demand. So the production was extended to households in and around Gutenbach. Plates with high edges were used and scattered material was distributed for drying in the domestic kitchen stoves.
By the Early 1950s, Faller was the first manufacturer with moving models, like a water mill with a rotating wheel and a windmill whose blades rotated. The special brush motor that was designed by Hermann Faller, fitted directly into the model and was elegantly hidden from view.
In 1953 the Faller company asked Fritz Schmalz for assistance with Polystyrene plastic injection moulding technology. Fritz was an old friend of Hermann Faller and had previously worked as a mechanic at a plastics manufacturing company in Lahr. Due to his help in processing plastic, Faller started producing plastic parts for the cardboard models, like plastic doors, windows and chimneys. Soon Faller also succeeded in making models completely out of plastic parts. In 1954 the Kiosk No. 212 and the Windmill No. 227 were the first fully plastic models and many other plastic models would follow.
In 1963 Faller launched their AMS (Auto-Motor-Sport) slot cars in 1:87 scale for use specifically with H0 model railroads and supported this release with lots of accessories, like railway crossings and traffic lights.
The toy market changed in the 1980s. Many products that were invented, developed and manufactured in Germany, were copied in the Far East in low wage countries. This also was the case for the Faller toy innovations. The goal of the expansion of the Faller toy range was to diversify the business risks, but the toy business had become particularly risky in the 1980s. It was clear to Faller that these fundamental changes in the toy market were irreversible. For the Faller company it was therefore economically wise to abandon the toy area and focus on its traditional model making. The Faller catalogue 1985 was therefore the last catalogue with a extensive range of toys.
Hi Barry ,
We very well could be related . My grandfather was the first of 5 children , and his mother insisted that he be born in the Fatherland When they moved back here they lived in south boston , in Roslindale and later in West Roxbury .He was one of about 35 cousins and I know that a few emigated to the US or Canada. My father grew up in Roslindale , and is currently living in a nursing home in Woburn .
My sister , Thais Gloor , lives in Burlington , and if you are able to contact her , she may be able to figure out if Helena Faller is tied in with our group
My grandfather William faller came from Germany with his father in the 1800,s lived in the black forest region and was relatives of toy manufacture Co. Would love to be able for someone to show our family tree
Hi all you folks with family links to Fallers in Gutenbach. I am great grandson of Frederick Faller b1866 and related to Edwin and Hermann. He emigrated to the UK in the 1880s along with relatives that settled in Ireland all were master watch and clock makers. Help confirming links between all these people who left the Black Forest in the late nineteenth century, would be very welcome.
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