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Hi Guys, Thank you for the welcome and i'm happy to be able to participate with all of you. Wanting to be able to fit decoders more easily to Tomix, locos, diesel cars and electrics, I've been trying to work out how many different lighting PCBs Tomix use accross the range and make a data-base to share. Currently, I'm mucking around with the 0726 board from an earlier DD51 loco and I know this fits the 2213, 14, 15, 16, 17, 18, 19, and 21. So, this big questions is, what other single-piece PCB lighboards are shared between Tomix model numbers? Thanks Guys, Damo.

Growing up in Monterey many fond memories of big creek railroad rides through the big redwoods! Always fun. Glad to see it’s active again after wildfires that hit it hard at various times. jeff

If I remember correctly, Santa Fe essentially rebuilt a bunch of EMD F-unit "covered wagon" locomotives with a customized, more utilitarian body design. Some 233 units were converted, a good number are still in service on short lines and tourist lines (like the one shown in the video).

New Episode! #148 Must-see Railway News: The First Half of 2024 Railway news from the first half of 2024. See the railway lines restored after the Noto Peninsula earthquake, various new trains, railway events and more. Broadcast on July 26, 2024 https://www3.nhk.or.jp/nhkworld/en/shows/2049147/

Hi @Damo Jr. welcome to the forum!

Nice Joe! what’s the frame made of? 3d print painted black or metal based. Seems like an etch might work with the inset frame etched out and figures all the way thru. Then backing piece same half etched frames for led space. Or frame layer and then backing piece and sandwich then all up. You are right it looks like it’s really fiddly bit to do! Kudos! jeff

Welcome Damien, glad you found us. we have a DCC forum specifically for what you want! Lots of it is about non drop in installs. Root around in there and then start asking questions, there is an active dcc crowd here. cheers jeff

Well That Wasn't Fun! I managed to get this right on the 5th attempt. Walk: Don't walk: It was a fiddly little bugger, here is what it looks like inside: All I need to do now is paint the case 😀 Oh and make 3 more 😒

Looks like Cathy Cat is back:

I appreciate such help and detailed information and where it originates, I deeply thank to mr. 200 too for the historical background of the train. I bestow all of my gratitude.

Luckily they didn’t go after tracks that could have been disastrous. Arsonists attack French high-speed rail system hours before opening ceremonies of the Paris Olympics https://apnews.com/article/74c9727d33ac86bfc126f98e45cb874f France train attacks: What we know about sabotage before Olympics https://www.reuters.com/world/europe/what-do-we-know-about-pre-olympic-attacks-frances-railways-2024-07-26/ jeff

This Forum never ceases to amaze me.

My order from Suruga-Ya arrived yesterday. My Shikoku Shinkansen and some other bits and pieces including some Shikoku buses and scenery items. The stone wall from TGW was a slight mistake - turns out it is 1/80 scale - but it was cheap enough - only a few dollars and maybe I can use it as paving for a garden scene or something similar. This is likely to be the only Shinkansen set I buy! And now I guess I must go to Shikoku - usually I buy trains after I have ridden them though this seemed like a fun purchase and maybe I can ride it on a future trip. Ciao, Tony

Your model appears to represent KuMoHa 41850, one of two KuMoHa 41 type cars to receive lowered roofs allowing them to be used on the Minobu line, it was part of what is sometimes collectively known as the 40 series cars, though that in itself is somewhat of an unofficial classification, which encompasses the MoHa 40 type, MoHa 41 type, KuHa 55 type, SaRoHa 56 type, SaHa 57 type and KuHaNi 67 type cars (as built), while also including modified/reclassified cars introduced during and after the war. The MoHa 40 type/40 series cars were the most numerous of the prewar/wartime old fashioned electric cars to be built for the Ministry of Railways (sometimes referred to as kyūgata kokuden in Japan) with a total of 425 cars being built between 1932 and 1943. They were originally built as commuter cars for use on commuting services on the newly electrified Katamachi and Jōtō line (now part of the Ōsaka loop line), though part of the second order would also be used on the Keihin line (the Keihin part of the current Keihin Tōhoku line), which was the only electrified line in the Kantō area capable of handling 20m class cars at that time. Cars built from that point onward would be built for both the Kantō and Keihanshin areas, and with the electrification of the Sōbu mainline in 1935 following the construction of the elevated section between Ochanomizu and Ryōgoku a large number of new cars would be built for use in the Kantō area. The prototype for your car was originally built as the first car of the first batch of the Shōwa 9 (1935) order of MoHa 40 type cars, recognizable by the enlarged cabs (though I'm not sure this is represented in your model) and the original, flat, front (starting from the Shōwa 10 order, a semi-streamlined front would be used instead) and she was originally delivered as MoHa 40128, though this was changed to 40048 in April of 1936. As she was built as a MoHa 40 type car, she was originally fitted with corner cabs at both ends of the car. During the war 40048 would be one of 22 MoHa 40 type cars scheduled to be converted into single cab cars, with the corner cabs being replaced by a single full width cab on one end of the car, while the aft cab was removed to allow for the passenger compartment to be extended. This would also see the cars being classified as MoHa 41 type, which was the existing classification for the single cab variant of the MoHa 40 type, with MoHa 40048 being reclassified as MoHa 41095 in 1943. MoHa 41095 would be reclassified as KuMoHa 41095 as part of the amended 1959 vehicle classification regulations, and would be transferred to the Minobu line in 1963 as the influx of new-performance cars being introduced by the National Railway at that point in time saw the 20m class old fashioned electric cars slowly being transferred to electrified (DC) local lines during this period, where they themselves would be replacing older 17m class cars. For use on the Minobu line motor cars had the roof section where the pantograph was mounted lowered, in order to maintain enough space between the base of the pantograph and the contact shoe when traversing the narrow tunnels on the line (similar modifications were also performed for equipment used on the Chūō-Higashi line for example), which for KuMoHa 41095 was completed in May of 1963. Cars which received the low roof modification would be reclassified as 800 sub-type cars, which saw KuMoHa 41095 being reclassified as KuMoHa 41850 following after being completed. She would be scrapped on August 22nd, 1981. http://kokuden.net/mc53/sub.htm/sub40/sub40-41/sub40-41.htm https://yasuo-ssi.hatenablog.com/entry/2022/02/20/233000 -> 8mm Footage of the Minobu line shot in 1975. Though KuMoHa 41850 isn't part of any of the trains being shown, as far as I can determine, it does show the similarly modified KuMoHa 60 type 800 sub-type cars in action. (credit: eh500douga) -> And in 1982. A similar situation to the footage shown above, with KuMoHa 41850 having of course already having been scrapped by this point in time. (credit: Shigeru Igarashi)

It looks like a J.N.R. Electric Car Type KUHA55 Control Car or a J.N.R. Electric Car Type KUMOHA41 Control Motor Car. https://www.1999.co.jp/eng/10007399 About 55 Kuha form 20m of syngeneic class control car are manufactured at the same time as Kumoha 41. 41 is an intensive system in the Kansai area originally Has been turned on, and become like, which are also used in the Tokyo area after, corresponding to the long months of organization https://www.1999.co.jp/eng/10007398 As the first 20m class electric car of JNR (accompanying car / control car has already changed from 32 series for ska line to 20m), the format that appeared in 1952. The 17m class standard electric vehicle Moha 33 (→ Kumoha 11 300 has an additional door window, and was initially introduced on the Joto and Katamachi lines in Osaka. The criteria I used are; -3 doors -1-5-5-2 windows Not many trains fit that criteria. Many versions had 4 doors and fewer windows. If you have a modern layout perhaps you could add a railway museum or place the car on a piece of track with a railfans "restoring" it.

Thanks, Thats toi be determined 😁

Perfect for a steam age local line. When's the layout starting?

Yokohama, looking north from near the Landmark Tower. This one looks great in HDR, but my monitor only has a kind of fake HDR, and I don't have any means to calibrate it either.

Nagatsuta Station. Somehow this one turned out well and actually looks like it's nearing dusk.

Goi again.

Goi station in Chiba.

Hello! I'm a bit need of a help identifying this greenmax economy kit old JNR commuter train, it's been passed down by a friend of mine as a gift. I assume it's a moha,kumoha,ki,kiha type car But it's still and doesn't seem match for my recent investigation... I appreciate such help

Overseas visitors to Kansai and Japan-based forum members may want to check out the model railway show now being held at the Hankyu Umeda Department Store (9F), through August 5. This year's theme is "stations" so there are a few quite interesting prototype based layouts/dioramas depicting stations in the Kansai area. *I am especially taken by the representation of the short (2.2km length) Hankyu Kouyou Line ( starting at 1:16, in HO scale, modular). official site: https://website.hankyu-dept.co.jp/honten/h/train_mokei/index.html#guide

Thanks all. Agreed, pretty dodgy for sure when its all put together, which is why I asked. Unfortunately they seem have the Google search algorithms figured out though as they seem to come up high, at least in my searches.

Greetings All, My name is Damien, I'm in Australia and have modeled trains on and off since teens and mostly collect these days. When I experienced the Japanese rail system in 2019 and saw what rail did for Japan, I understood the local fascination and started collecting. Totally fascinated by the home-grown tourist trains and wrappings of 3rd-sector lines I'm here because the lack of DCC in Tomix is bugging me and I want to do something about it! If you guys are ok with it, I'll be posting threads in different forums and seeking to pick your brains about stuff I can't seem to get answers on. Warm Regards, Damo.