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Glorious November
Mr. Kozo Hiraoka driving Jack in A&B special open day who is a famous writer in Live Steam Magazine
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No.18 loco Ajax
No.18 loco Ajax under repetition of repair and test driving
The fittings of boiler are old and weak, so the exchange with new parts are necessary.
DB81 and Jack of new capital locos
No.19 loco Kubiki DB81 entering to Garage station, and running by the porch in west garden
No.19 loco DB81 and No.17 loco Jack are both big size and new capital leaders in A&B.
Jack running on stone pavement track in south garden, and through the forest in west garden
Goods from Mr. Teruo Inoue
Many goods arrived from Mr. Teruo Inoue were carried to the garage by AB10 train. The goods are a lot of old model engines.
Rare and treasure model such as gasoline, diesel, glow engines are in seven boxes. I think I can hold a show or open a museum !
Autumn open days
A&B open days are carried out some days in October and November. All days were fine with pleasant time
The many guests waiting to ride on the train in the porch, and going to little travel under bright autumn sunshine
Driving No.19 loco DB81 and No.9 loco Plymouth crossing over the brick arch bridge
AB20 & AB10 double header train with three passengers climbing on grade track
In AB10 train, a driver is rear and a passenger is front.
Plymouth with tippers running through the forest, and the president driving Jack train
It was very fine day according to hopes and good behaviors of all guests.
Improvement of driving trailer
Simple driving trailer before improvement, and my wife riding on it said that it was hard to operate.
The trailer after improvement (with water tank under seat), and Miss N riding on it to drive Jack.
The fifth special open day
The fifth special open day was carried out at Saturday of November 17th. My friend Mr. Kimio Hoshino driving Jack is a leader of this event.
Mr. Sato driving AB20 with his dog Eru, and Mr. Kiuch driving DB81 crossing over the timber trestle
Discussing about model engineering around the garden table, and Mr.Sudo on Jack passing by the table
Mr. Hoshino driving Jack with telephoning, and Mr. Sekine driving No.16 loco Baltic of vertical boiler
Mr. Sato driving Jack, and Mr. Sekine driving DB81 with passengers of Mr. Inoue and Mr. Kiuchi
New strange 5inch car named Looper by Mr. Inoue, and all members in the special open day
Here is a small movie of Looper running.
Steam tram Blanche
16mm scale steam tram ,reported in the previous A&B Report, named Blanche, before and after painting
Here is a small movie of Blanche running.
Pretty layout in bag
I got fortunately this pretty HOe layout in the bag. It was built by Mr. Akihiro Moroboshi who is a famous modeler in Japan
Fantastic detail can be seen in all over the layout.
It is real portable because the bag can be closed by folding all structures and rollingstocks within.
Live steam Shays
45mm gauge live steam Shays, three are by Accucraft, One is by Aster, and the other one is unknown.
Accucraft three cylinders Shay and two cylinders Shay running on endless track in west garden
Here are small movies of thee cylinders Shay running and two cylinders Shay running.
Reports from the others
Mr. Hoshino's vertical boilers and old clockwork tin toy locomotive in his hobby room
This is his newest project of 3.5inch gauge Netta.
In Mr. Kiuchi's workshop, 5inch T-boiler Shay was built. The photos shows smokestack, boiler cover, dome, bell, and dummy generator.
This is a variable gauge car built by Mr. Koike, what can be change the gauge automatically with running between 35mm and 45mm.
Appreciation
Mr. Inoue driving my No.16 loco Baltic in the special open day. I and my locomotives were very honor for Mr. Hiraoka and Mr. Inoue driving in my garden railway.
Thanks too, for the introduction of my garden railway in Mr. Trevor Heath's web site "Live Steaming"
See you next !
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