A & B Report

Her name is Popinjay


A&B new locomotive No.14 Popinjay on the north deck line



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Service in June


No.9 loco Plymouth with tippers running on west garden line by the porch


Plymouth train over the timber trestle in the west garden and on the crossing in brick path


Rail truck on the sidetrack in the west garden and No.10 rail bus running on the crossing


Rail bus through the gate of Garage station


New locomotive


The new locomotive that is electric powered SL under construction, and its handy controller


The body is covered by plastic board and implanting rivets


Lady Madcap recovered


In the sixth steam-up the injector of Lady Madcap finally worked and became to be able to long run.


So, Lady madcap was adopted to formal No.13 loco of A&B


Those photogragh are Hunslet loco Alice of Bala Lake Railway in UK. (Red in the past and black at present)


45mm gauge line


Green tender loco Fowler running on the endless track in the west garden

Here is a small movie of running Fowler train.


Goose and saddle tank that are electric locomotives


Report from UK by Mr. Hoshino


Double fairlie locomotive in Ffestiniog Railway and 12.25 inch gauge loco in Fairbourne & Barmouth Railway


5 inch gauge Sentinel 0-4-0T and the prototype in National Railway Museum York


Reports from the others


Mr. Watanabe steam-upping his freelance 3.5 inch locomotive William, and Mr. Sato driving on his 7.5 inch Rocket


Mr. Shigiya's 7.5 inch Koppel and Mr. Sato's 5 inch motor car on Shigiya Light Railway


Painting and etching


New locomotive's body under painting with gray surfacer and bluegray color


After dry of paint, some parts were assembled. Name plate of Popinjay set on the side.


The name plate was made by etching, No.13 plate set on the side of Lady Madcap


Retrospective locomotive models


Hornby's O gauge clockwork locomotive on the turntable by the water tower


O gauge live steam models of Bing's single driver in1906 and Marklin's in 1912


Popinjay completed


The linkage of valve setting (dummy) and the head light of Popinjay


The name and number plates set on side, and test running on the main line


No.14 locomotive Popinjay running on stone pavement track in the south garden

Here is a small movie of running Popinjay with sound.


Dual gauge track


The 45mm LGB track was replaced with the 32&45mm dual gauge track by Tenmille


Mamod red train running on 32mm and Darjeeling on 45mm gauge in steam-up


Report from the other work shops


The front bogie of 5 inch 4-4-0 locomotive under construction by Mr. Sato, and the very small rail bike by Mr.Inoue


The 5 inch wagon and the bogie of Shay locomotive under construction in Mr.Kiuchi's work shop


Report from UK by Mr. Trenor


The inside view of steam tram Flower of the Forest in Ravenglass & Eskdale Railway


The specialised mowing locomotive with works car in R&E R.


G scale structure


G scale structure of the shed with water tank under construction on my work bench


Stationmaster Pascal


A&B Stationmaster Pascal lying down on the brick pavement for cooling his body


Pascal and Popinjay on the wood deck


Garden railway in early summer


Popinjay with wagon and short caboose working in the morning


Popinjay train over the brick arch bridge and on the north deck line


Here is a small movie of running Popinjay train.

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