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Driver’s eye view of ‘Enoshima’ part 2 26 Jun 2011 | 07:30 pm
As previously promised (http://jmtn.wordpress.com/2011/04/07/drivers-eye-view-of-enoshima/), here is the footage taken at the recent Epping exhibition … Video was taken with the original camera (this ...
Kato to release Tokyo subway train series 6 Jun 2011 | 11:05 pm
A poster from the recent 3rd Kyoto Rail Expo would seem to indicate that Kato will release a ‘series’ of models of all of Tokyo’s subway system trains !!! They seem to be doing it in order, so the fir...
Tomix’s Track & Wheel Cleaning Systems (updated again) 9 May 2011 | 02:34 am
I have decided to document the history of Tomix’s various products used for cleaning track & wheels … The first attempt was the 92007 193 series EC 2 car set. This unit has been in Tomix catalogs sinc...
Driver’s eye view of ‘Enoshima’ 7 Apr 2011 | 11:50 pm
Now I know what it looks like for the ‘drivers’ of my trains when they go round and round the layout … During last weekend’s Canberra exhibition, my work colleague and layout assistant Warwick produce...
New trains & buildings on ‘Enoshima’ 6 Apr 2011 | 01:00 am
Here are some photos of my latest acquisitions/changes on the layout from last weekend’s Canberra exhibition … TRAINS My colleague Edo ordered the new Kato E5 shinkansen, and it arrived 2 days before ...
Buying a limited release Bandai B-train Dr Yellow 5 Feb 2011 | 05:25 pm
In a Japanese train magazine recently, I saw advertising of a limited release of a Dr Yellow 923 T4 set. So of course I had to have one The big problem was that … it was a limited release made by Band...
Kato Diotown 23-433 & 23-434 building kitbashes 29 Jan 2011 | 05:22 pm
Here are some kitbashes I just completed on these 2 Kato city buildings … Both of them were taken off the ‘Enoshima‘ layout, and had been used as tall background buildings to fill in space. I wanted t...
Tomytec Ryokan ‘B’ 15 Jan 2011 | 02:36 pm
Recently Tomytec released 3 different Ryokan buildings with a ‘Hot Spring Resort’ theme … I bought all three of them, with the aim of replacing some of the older buildings on ”Enoshima’ before it’s de...
2010 in review 2 Jan 2011 | 06:37 pm
The stats helper monkeys at WordPress.com mulled over how this blog did in 2010, and here’s a high level summary of its overall blog health: Crunchy numbers About 3 million people visit the Taj Mahal ...
ONE train – FIVE names – SIX different colours ! 30 Dec 2010 | 12:49 am
Japan is well know for it’s variety of colourful trains, but in this case I think they have even outdone themselves … In 1988, JR Kyushu took delivery of the sole Kiha183-1000 4 car diesel set to be u...
