Japanese Model Train Shows

[bill937ca]

The weather outside sucks today (snow, ice pellets, freezing rain and then later more snow   ), so I decided to kill some time on the internet.  I went looking in Models Imon link section for some nine gauge train links. This will help kill the time.  Back to work at 4:30AM tomorrow.    

 

This is a personal web page with photos on various Japanese train shows as far back as 2002 and running association reports. Lots interesting photos.

 

http://okirakuoyaji.hp.infoseek.co.jp/sonota.html

 

This is the translated version with Japanese Excite.

 

http://www.excite-webtl.jp/world/english/web/?wb_url=http%3A%2F%2Fokirakuoyaji.hp.infoseek.co.jp%2Fsonota.html&wb_lp=JAEN&wb_dis=2

 

And just for anyone who's looking for a really big layout, this is Hachioji N Plaza.

 

http://www.excite-webtl.jp/world/english/web/?wb_url=http%3A%2F%2Fokirakuoyaji.hp.infoseek.co.jp%2Fsoukoukai03.html&wb_lp=JAEN&wb_dis=2

[Bernard]

Bill - Those are some swap meets they have! I don't know how you would keep track of a train on the Hachioji N Plaza layout plus how can you possibly reach anything in the middle, but it surely is a big layout. :icon_cyclops_ani:

[bc6]

Bill - Those are some swap meets they have! I don't know how you would keep track of a train on the Hachioji N Plaza layout plus how can you possibly reach anything in the middle, but it surely is a big layout. :icon_cyclops_ani:

 

Bernard they just showed the interesting pictures. what you didn't see is a little kid from the rafters on a pulley, thats how they fix derailments.

 

What I find interesting is why are peoples faces blurred out so you cant see them.

[westfalen]

The weather outside sucks today (snow, ice pellets, freezing rain and then later more snow   )

That weather sounds nice, it's been hovering around 100 degrees here for the last couple of weeks, and the worst of summer is yet to come.

 

I like the long straights on the Hachioji layout's elevated line to give your Shinkansen a workout.

[to2leo]

The weather outside sucks today (snow, ice pellets, freezing rain and then later more snow   )

That weather sounds nice, it's been hovering around 100 degrees here for the last couple of weeks, and the worst of summer is yet to come.

 

I like the long straights on the Hachioji layout's elevated line to give your Shinkansen a workout.

 

Well...you know what, at least we have White Christmas!  :icon_santa:

 

Joking aside, that big layout is purely for operation purposes so it does not really interest me at all.

[Bernard]

 

Bernard they just showed the interesting pictures. what you didn't see is a little kid from the rafters on a pulley, thats how they fix derailments.

 

 

LOL - I wonder what he did to get that honor..... :angel13:

[scott]

What I find interesting is why are peoples faces blurred out so you cant see them.

 

Come on--you wouldn't want people to be able to look on the internet and associate you with *toy trains,* would you?!? That'd be a disaster! Think what people would say!

 

 

Anybody seen my paper bag?

[bill937ca]

 

 

What I find interesting is why are peoples faces blurred out so you cant see them.

 

I understand this is required by Japanese law, in essence a privacy measure.

[to2leo]

Japanese blurred out a lot of other things too...  Sorry just can't help myself.