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Reverberant December
Signal bridge in Garage station was built not for function but only as a adornment.
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Working AB20
AB20 industrial train carrying concrete blocks and dust bag of fallen leaves
Here is a small movie of working AB20 train.
Little live steamers
Aileen with wagons on new 45mm gauge line, and Charles on dual gauge track in the west garden
New loco has come! It is Roundhouse Silver Lady 0-6-0, a good proportion narrow gauge locomotive.
This loco can switch the exhaust to smokestack or drain cock under the cylinder by RC servomotor.
Here are small movies of running Silver Lady in 1, 2 and 3 .
Setting name plates and changing the gauge from 32mm to 45mm, Silver Lady running on new line by the porch
No.8 loco Sapphire
Driving Sapphire with Wales coal on the north wood deck line and stone pavement track in the south garden
The way of Ajax
New and old water gauges, and setting new one on back plate.
And new pressure gauge set, and steam-up test again
After nice running, a drain cock broke by touching the rail because of little clearance
Repairing the drain cock, and trying steam-up again next day
Ajax ran very good giving me a feeling of first satisfaction.
Here is a small movie of driving Ajax.
Building shed
In the back of the turntable in Garage station, the construction of new structure started.
After building the frame and the roof, the paint work was carried out in the porch, and setting the site.
Sapphire in the new shed, and setting green doors and name plate on the front beam
The view from high window of the garage
The Railway Museum
Visiting to the Railway Museum in Saitama city, which has opened in this year
Old locomotives and tram cars and coaches in big hall, and a model of old type snowplow most interested me
Reports from the others
Mr. Hoshino's tram car running and Mr. Sekine's Shay on the turntable in Mr. Hirose's garden layout in Ibaraki
Mr. Sudo's new project to scratch build a 56mm gauge Decauville, and Mr. Sato's work of regulator parts for his 5inch 4-4-0
Aluminium signal
New signal wings were built with aluminium for exchanging an old wooden ones
Completed signal wings after painting, and setting the signal pole in the site
Signal bridge
More four signal wings were built with aluminium for signal bridge in Garage station
Completed signal bridge after painting, and AB20 train in No.1 line under the bridge
Stationmaster
Stationmaster Pascal inspecting the shed construction, and a trial project of Stationmaster figure of piggy bank as one of the A&B goods
In the end of 2007
I think that 2007 was a very good year for my garden railway, and hope next year too.
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