Fobbi

In 1980, Jacques Barret, a former sales manager for Jouef,  founded the Tredi company, which produced toy trains under the 'Fobbi' mark. The new firm aimed at the primary end of the toy train market that Jouef and even Lima had then seemed to have given up. 

The first Fobbi range included only one diesel loco BB67007, some shortened Corail coaches and some goods wagons. It was extended gradually, until it became a serious competitor for Jouef, in particular the TGV, which managed to rack up a large number of sales.

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67007 The BB67007 was similar to Jouef's old BB67001
  The BB22200 model had poor detail and a plastic pantograph
BB15000 The BB15000 minus pantograph

The irony of all this was that in 1985 when the CEJI group went under, Jouef were saved by Jacques Barret. The rescue plan, which returned all the production equipment to the Champagnole site, lead to the creation of a new company 'Jouef Industries'.

Here are a selection of goods wagons

2 x wagons Open and Interfrigo 4 x wagons 4 boxed wagons
4 x wagons Four more wagons 6 x wagons A selection of six
Kronenbourg Kronenbourg van Interfrigo

Interfrigo van

Explosifs An explosives wagon Danzas

Danzas van

The toy-like models which Fobbi produced  in the early 1980's used the same bogie for all the models e.g. BB67007, BB22000, BB20011, BB15000 and even the TGV. There was no extra detail on the roofs, only one plastic pantograph and no lights. The models had one motor fixed on the bogie with a ballast weight .

Some train sets were also produced.

Europ Transports

The Europ Transports set Passenger set A passenger set with BB22000

Corail set

The Corail set with BB67007 TGV set The TGV set

Grands Reseaux

The Grands Reseaux set  

More information will be added in time

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