A couple of years ago, a north Florida ebay seller had a run of about 30 or so BAUR beer wagons on auction over two or three weeks. I managed to snag four at dear prices and wish I had done better.

The ones I got were new in the box and originally for sale by Rolling Stock Exchange (appartently defunct) in Miami for about $22. The box is blue with white labels. No date is shown. Info on the box lists 'steel bearing axles with no leaking during storage'. ROCO coupler part number and ROCO AC and DC wheelset part numbewr are provided. Claims most modern printing methods, exact (precision) printing, and higher color count.

These have highly detailed graphics, mostly very colorful and roll really well. I'll buy any more that I see if I can find any and I am not even a beer wagon fanatic.

I found a mention on a board where someone was looking for info on the company. The company was Lutz Baur in Bad Waldsee, W. Germany and is also apparently defunct. A successor company Wörner Modellbahnen was mentioned but remnants of web pages are mostly defunct as well.

Not entirely clear but it seems they may have sourced the wagons from ROCO and specialized in the highly detailed graphics. May have done work with other companies as well, based on forum comments.

That's all I know.

Mike

Only 46 to collect in the series...

That should keep you busy Sancho..

Haha! Thanks mate!

I saw one on eBay and it looked pretty cool so I thought I'd try and gather a little more info about what they were

Thanks guys!