C4 ??

[domino]

Hey Guy`s

 

I have many times almost bought this small "switcher" , but was thinking, is this small loco really running in Japan, i have never seen photo of a real life C4 , have you ??

 

Brian

domino

[EWS60008]

Hi Brian,

 

To me. This looks more like a mining type of shunter than something that would be seen in the carriage sidings or working around in the freight yards. Though I am open to correction, but mining wagons would look authentic behind this.

[Bernard]

Who makes that "little guy"?

[marknewton]

The model is based on a Sakai-built loco that ran on the fabled Kiso Forest Railway. It's real, and it was mainline power.

 

http://tadayusaku.3.pro.tok2.com/kiso2.html

 

All the best,

 

Mark.

[domino]

Who makes that "little guy"?

 

Pro-hobby makes them , you can buy one at plaza Japan here

http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/Mini-Size-Motorized-Chassis-w-Body-Pro-Hobby-Ca-NB-2_W0QQitemZ360166690577QQcmdZViewItemQQptZModel_RR_Trains?hash=item53db9b8f11&_trksid=p4634.c0.m14.l1262&_trkparms=%7C293%3A20%7C294%3A30

 

domino

[domino]

The model is based on a Sakai-built loco that ran on the fabled Kiso Forest Railway. It's real, and it was mainline power.

 

http://tadayusaku.3.pro.tok2.com/kiso2.html

 

All the best,

 

Mark.

 

 

 

thanks

 

domino

[EWS60008]

The model is based on a Sakai-built loco that ran on the fabled Kiso Forest Railway. It's real, and it was mainline power.

 

http://tadayusaku.3.pro.tok2.com/kiso2.html

 

All the best,

 

Mark.

 

 

Tried to look at the link but my WOT toolbar warns me of that site having a poor reputation and blocks access to it (I'm a firefox user) . So I can't read it. Could someone post details about the actual prototype here in this thread as I would like to know more about these shunters without my browser throwing a fit! .

 

Cheers

Ash

[marknewton]

 

 

 

C4, 762mm gauge diesel loco built by Sakai Heavy Industry, developing 175 hp. As I noted earlier, these locos were not shunters, but mainline power on the Kiso forestry line after dieselisation.

 

All the best,

 

Mark.

[Guest ___]

It's similar to a cab-forward version of a Plymouth or Davenport industrial switcher. We have three at my little RR here.

[EWS60008]

Thanks for posting the pics of those and pardon my ignorance of me thinking it was a shunter in the first place . I noticed that the semaphore signals on the third photo down look intriguing similar to the remaining ones in the UK! .