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Spring 2012
The trains and we work every day even in snow or cold Bontenzaka garden.
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You can see large ones by click on the photos in this page
Snow land
The powder snow is like as smooth surface as cream or soap bubbles.
Stationmaster and Assistant stationmaster are in snow house.
The forest turned to all white, and the small bulldozer acted to remove the snow on garden path.
Rotary snowplow
5inch gauge rotary snowplow worked on Bontenzaka line for the winter service of Akubi L.R.
The rotor is driven by motor supplied from generator, and the car is propelled by locomotive AB10.
As it is hard work because the snow is heavy and locomotive wheels slips, so the double-header with AB20 acted in the second.
Stationmaster walks on the track after snowplow works.
In order to more propel power, all wheels are converted to drivers by using power truck units from OS.
The movie of rotary snowplow 1
*MOVIE in YouTube*
The movie of rotary snowplow 2
*MOVIE in YouTube*
Running in the snow garden
No.7 loco Kato 7ton running in the snow garden. It is four cycle gasoline engine locomotive.
Just after snowplow works, both sides of track are snow wall.
Assistant stationmaster can walk on the snow by jumping step.
Driving Kato 7ton in snow garden
*MOVIE in YouTube*
Assistant stationmaster and Kato 7ton
*MOVIE in YouTube*
No.10 loco Rail bus running in the snow garden. It is by radio controlled and the driver in warm room can look the image from camera in car.
No.19 loco DB81 running with coaches and AB10 & AB20 double-header running with works car in snow garden.
Driving DB81 in snow garden
*MOVIE in YouTube*
Driving AB10 and AB20 double-header around the snow garden
*MOVIE in YouTube*
5inch gauge Judith M
5inch Hunslet Judith M was inspected in the garage pit.
Second photo is her exhaust pipe from valve chest. I knew that this was Balanced slid valve.
After checking Judith M ran well as shown in three photos above, and the last one is Hunslet Jack without saddle tank.
Small live steams
The first photo shows saddle tank Dragonfly, 16mm scale 32mm gauge meths fired model based on Mamod.
The second is side tank Bertie, 16mm scale 32mm gauge gas fired model based on Mamod.
The third is open cab Green dragon, 16mm scale 32mm gauge gas fired model based on Accucraft Edrig.
The last is open cab saddle tank Palmerston, 16mm scale 45mm gauge gas fired model based on Accucraft Ruby.
Movie of Dragonfly
*MOVIE in YouTube*
Movie of Bertie
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Movie of Green Dragon
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Movie of Palmerston
*MOVIE in YouTube*
The first photo shows coal fired Casper, 16mm scale 45mm gauge model by Modelbouw in Holland.
The second is Saxonian IIIK, G scale 45mm gauge model with Klose type linkage rod (dummy) made by Accucraft.
The third is War department Baldwin, G scale 45mm gauge by Accucraft.
Coal fired Casper driving
*MOVIE in YouTube*
Saxonian IIIK running
*MOVIE in YouTube*
War department Baldwin running
*MOVIE in YouTube*
Assistant stationmaster and Baldwin
*MOVIE in YouTube*
The first photo shows Cheddar's steam tram, 16mm scale 32mm gauge gas fired radio controlled model.
The second is Archangel's Brick, 16mm scale 32mm gauge meths fired single cylinder model.
The third is Iolanthe, 16mm scale 32mm gauge gas fired model based on Regner Lumber Jack.
The last is Single driver Sindbat, G scale 45mm gauge meths fired scratchbuilt model used with Mamod's boiler.
Cheddar steam tram running
*MOVIE in YouTube*
Small locomotives and tram
The first and second photos show Essel Engineering's models, both are battery locomotives.
The third is Hamburger tram, old scratchbuilt model with wood and metal, G scale 32mm gauge.
Hamburger tram running
*MOVIE in YouTube*
5inch Baldwin B1 rear tank
Kiso Logging Railway Baldwin 0-4-2 rear tank is being scratchbuilt In the warm workshop of Akubi L.R.
After air test in January, the detail parts were built mainly, such as smoke room door, smokestack, and cabin.
Using the boiler made by OS Locomotive, steam pipe linkage and exhaust pipe were made.
The first photo above shows the rod linkage for mechanical lubricator from the crank of the second driver.
Cabin was assembled with laser cut steel plates and brass angles. 786 dummy rivets on cabin surface were constructed.
The first photo is milling machine, and the steam dome saddle on the table.
The second photo shows the steam dome saddle under lathe work.
The third is it under milling works and the last photo is completed dome saddles.
The first is safety valve stand in the steam dome, and the second is the dummy generator made of aluminum bar by lathe.
The last photo shows the tentative assembly of cabin and detail parts.
Stationmaster and Assistant stationmaster
Stationmaster Pascal and Assistant stationmaster Hecto like the snow and cold day very much.
Especially it was the first snow and first winter for Assistant stationmaster, because he was just one year old in this February.
Snow morning stroll
*MOVIE in YouTube*
Assistant stationmaster running in the snow
*MOVIE in YouTube*
Stationmaster walking in the snow
*MOVIE in YouTube*
Stationmaster on sled
*MOVIE in YouTube*
Stationmaster and Assistant stationmaster posed in sunroom.
In the middle of April, they got the long-awaited water play in the garden just after pipe thawing.
Static and dynamic
*MOVIE in YouTube*
The first water play in this year
*MOVIE in YouTube*
The spring is yet young
AB10 and AB20 double-header train waiting in Bontenzaka station, and the lighthouse in the snow garden.
The beautiful blue and high sky over the white garden.
Next A&B report would be in July. Bontenzaka garden will be green.
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