Taiju Christmas steam train in Kinugawa, Tochigi

[katoftw]

 

[marknewton]

Great video, thanks for posting it. Everything about it says class - the immaculate C11 and cars, the black Xmas tree and Santa, the decorations and the games for the kids. Kudos to Tobu for putting on such a good show. 

 

I'm assuming that the turntable that appeared briefly was installed specifically for this service? That's another nice touch, since the C11 should happily run at line speed bunker first.

 

Cheers,

 

Mark.

 

 

[westfalen]

Both turntables were procured from JR West. I have a photo I took of a poster with details of where various things came from but uploading it fails at the moment.

 

The loco remains coupled to the brake van at all times and is turned at each end of the run.

 

I noticed on my last trip that the Oigawa now also turn the tank locos at Senzu (can't have Thomas running backwards I suppose).