Steam-electric?

[velotrain]

 

 

I've heard of diesel-electric, but steam-electric?

 

From the Kamioka Railway, which is also the source of the below image.

 

 

 

 

This would be an awesome scene to model, if you had the skill (and patience) to pull it off.

 

Let's see . . . you could narrow the Tomix truss bridge to single track and repaint it.

 

However, keitaro tells me those wagons are hard to find these days . . .

[katoftw]

The Botchan is a diesel.  The pantagraphs are just to power the passenger cars.

 

Edited May 2, 2015 by katoftw

[kvp]

Actuallly the passenger cars are part of a 2 section tram (they even have a plug in walkaround controller for shunting) and the diesel engine can be turned off so the whole train functions as a catenary diesel electric hybrid. The original locomotive is displayed statically at one of the stops. Kato makes a good enough replica in its pocket line that can be upgraded a bit to look better.

 

The bridge on the photo is afaik sold by Greenmax in a glue together kit. The hard part imho is the vegetation and the water.

 

Real steam electrics of both kind:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Electric-steam_locomotive

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heilmann_locomotive

[velotrain]

Thanks for the info guys.

 

A diesel with a sound system?

 

It says a lot about the city that they are willing to support something like that to reflect tradition.

 

I like the "in track" turntable, and the 0-5-0 moving the coaches.

 

It was confusing on the return trip, as they kept changing between the two short coaches and one longer one.  Apparently shot at different times and edited.  Also very attractive white wooden station.

 

I'm impressed by the large paving stones on the street track - reminds me of the tram yard at Kochi.

 

 

 

 

[Nick_Burman]

The Botchan is a diesel.  The pantagraphs are just to power the passenger cars.

 

 

I suspect that they are there to trigger the OHW contacts which power the signal/switch motors at junctions.

 

Cheers NB