New Year 2010 on Kato webpage

[CaptOblivious]

 

Seen on the front page of Kato's website. Could anyone here maybe explain this?

[to2leo]

Just in case it will be gone soon, I saved it below.

[westfalen]

I saw it too. Someone at Kato must have a sense of humor. Can anyone translate the caption?

[qwertyaardvark]

Translation:

 

謹賀新年2010

Kin'ga Shinen 2010

Happy New Year 2010

 

本年も変わらぬ愛顧を賜りますようにお願い申し上げます。

Hon'nen mo kawaranu aiko wo tamwarimasu you ni onegai moushiagemasu.

In this year too, we hope to be blessed by your unfaltering patronage.

 

株式会社カトー・株式会社関金属

Kabushuki Kato & Kabushiki Sekisui Kanzoku

Kato Ltd. & Kato Precision Railroad Models Ltd. (a.k.a. Sekisui Kanzoku Ltd.)

 

Edit: the really tiny print says "The pictured locomotive is NOT able to run on Unitram curved track"

 

/translation

 

interesting picture i must say... love the reference to uni qlo ^^;;

[to2leo]

Thanks for the translation, I wonder why this particular engine with this colour scheme?  And what is the engine pulling?  It looks like it is pulling something that is out of order which, IMHO, not a good way to promote once's product quality 

[westfalen]

Thanks for the translation, I wonder why this particular engine with this colour scheme?  And what is the engine pulling?  It looks like it is pulling something that is out of order which, IMHO, not a good way to promote once's product quality 

 

The paint scheme might be meant to represent maintenance of way or service equipment.

[bc6]

Thats an interesting paint job maybe a Dr. Yellow Zebra lol.

[Claude_Dreyfus]

I understand that an order has been placed for EF510s to cover off all the remaining electric locomotive-hauled passenger trains. Perhaps this is the new colour scheme...

[stevenh]

interesting picture i must say... love the reference to uni qlo ^^;;

 

Hah! I didn't see that until you pointed it out...

 

As for the colour scheme... the Chinese Calendar indicates it's the year of the Tiger and nearly everything over there (Japan) had something resembling these colours for the new year. (I'm back now though :) )

[CaptOblivious]

interesting picture i must say... love the reference to uni qlo ^^;;

 

Hah! I didn't see that until you pointed it out...

 

As for the colour scheme... the Chinese Calendar indicates it's the year of the Tiger and nearly everything over there (Japan) had something resembling these colours for the new year. (I'm back now though :) )

 

Ah, that explains it, then. I'm satisfied!

 

BTW, the new EF510-500s for JR East will be blue to match JR Hokkaido's "Hokutosei" liveried DD51s.