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Winter 2012
The new Bontenzaka station house in autumn and winter garden.
A Happy New Year !
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Station house
Bontenzaka station house was built in October. It is a playhouse kit for children.
The first photo shows the completed house with stationmaster and assistant stationmaster.
Usual service
No.7 loco Kato 7ton is the capital locomotive in Bontenzaka Line, This gasoline engine locomotive can work immediately without battery charge or steam up.
No.19 loco DB81 works with passenger train for the guests. the third photo shows Henry the Rail Star.
The movie of Henry the Rail Star ;
*MOVIE in YouTube*
New loco Judith M
The new locomotive has come in Bontenzaka Line, her name is Judith M. She is the fourth Hunslet locomotive in Akubi L.R.
The movie of driving Judith M ;
*MOVIE in YouTube*
Judith M running and whistling ;
*MOVIE in YouTube*
Visitors
The photos above show Mr. Sato on his Kyosan, Mr. Sekine's four truck Shay, Mr. Kiuchi's Mich-Cal Shay, and Mr. Inoue's one truck Shays.
The photos above show Mr. Sugiura's Whitcomb, Mr. Kiuchi's Goose, Mr. Wada's Burlington Zephyrs, and Mr. Koike's 45mm gauge automatic layout.
Mr. Wada and his Burlington Zephyr ;
*MOVIE in YouTube*
Mr. Inoue's decapod running ;
*MOVIE in YouTube*
Small live steams
The first photo is strange scratchbuilt saddle tank of 45mm gauge with oscillating engines and meths fired boiler.
The second and third photos are British style lovely locos that were converted from Regner Easy Line locos.
The movie of saddle tank ;
*MOVIE in YouTube*
The movie of Aurora running ;
*MOVIE in YouTube*
The movie of Iolanthe running ;
*MOVIE in YouTube*
The first photo shows the steam tram built by covering a Mamod locomotive. It is meths fired.
The second is old Merlin Major. It is gas fired, and radio controlled in regulator, running direction and whistle.
The third is red Darjeeling of Himalayan Railway of Roundhouse with Busy Bodies figures.
The last photo shows 7/8inch scale Double Fairlie built by using two Mamod locomotive chassis. The boiler, the meths burner, and body were scratchbuilt.
Steam tram running ;
*MOVIE in YouTube*
Merlin Major running ;
*MOVIE in YouTube*
Red Darjeeling running ;
*MOVIE in YouTube*
Double Fairlie running ;
*MOVIE in YouTube*
Other small trams and locos
The first photo shows Tama-den paper craft kit, and the second is its completed after painting.
The third is Lisbon tram built from wooden kit by OcCre.
Tama-den and Lisbon tram runngig ;
*MOVIE in YouTube*
I got the Burlington Zephyr from Mr. Wada. The first photo above shows its inside mechanism of OS 10 engine and fuel tank.
The second is live air locomotive that run by single oscillating engine with electric compressor that was in a junk sphygmomanometer.
The last photo shows scratchbuilt DL with many freight cars.
Burlington Zephyr running ;
*MOVIE in YouTube*
Live air locomotive running ;
*MOVIE in YouTube*
DL running with many freight cars ;
*MOVIE in YouTube*
Blower car and rotary snowplow
The blower car was built in order to clear the track covered with fallen leaves. It consists of electric blower, gasoline engine generator, and driving locomotive.
Test of blower car ;
*MOVIE in YouTube*
Blower car working ;
*MOVIE in YouTube*
Blower car running ;
*MOVIE in YouTube*
This is new Rotary Snowplow, exchanging the blower unit to the snowplow one. It will work in this winter.
Gyro car
Very rare old tin toy of Gyro car by Lehmann. It is not Gyro monorail because can not run on the rail. It stand up and running by gyro.
In order to run on single rail, it is called monorail car, there are two methods. One is monowheeler such as Mr. Inoue's model, and another is gyro
monorail with balancing system by servo motor or axis friction.
Construction of the yard
The track construction in the yard area carried out in December.
One sidetrack was added and the new ash pit was built near the garage line. The last photo shows the transmitter for switching the turnouts.
5inch Baldwin B1 rear tank
5inch gauge Kiso Logging Railway Baldwin 0-4-2 rear tank is being built in Akubi Workshop.
The first and second photos show the Stephenson valve gear and eccentric for feed pump in second driver axis.
The third is the crosshead on slide bar and the engine.
For accuracy boring of crank shaft on the driver wheel, setting apparatus is built and was held on the lathe.
The photos above show the intake and exhaust for cylinders, the driver axis quartering by Loctite, and slide valve under alignment.
The first air test movie ;
*MOVIE in YouTube*
Stationmaster and Assistant stationmaster
Assistant stationmaster Hecto will be one year old soon. He has become larger but light weight than Stationmaster Pascal.
Hecto and Pascal in the room, in the new station house, and white garden.
They were playing with water in the garden everyday but now can not because of water freeze in the winter
Snow garden
The snow day in Bontenzaka garden shows the beautiful white scenery like a cream cake.
White forest
White forest under the blue sky can be looked every morning.
Next A&B report would be in April but spring will not come yet.
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