IR Ishikawa, Kanazawa, and Ainokaze Recommendations

[Ayn]

Does anyone have recommendations on equipment indigenous to the Kanazawa area (Ishikawa Prefecture, Honshu).

 

Wants include a 03 Series for the Hokuriku Railway's Asanogawa Line -- I'm currently using a KATO 10-1773 [313 Series] pair as a stand-in since it has an orange stripe -- and a pair of red and white striped 521 Series for the Nanao Line (which currently has a KATO 10-1395 blue and white striped pair as a stand-in).

 

Currently services are provided over 9.75 meters of main line between staging yards, 金沢駅 Kanazawa-eki, and 東金沢駅, Higashi-Kanazawa-eki, with the Kanazawa JR-Freight depot and yards in-between.

 

Passenger equipment is a 4-unit JR-West 223 (KATO 10-537); aforementioned 10-1773; paired 521s of the IR Ishikawa (KATO 10-1507, and 10-1508); the Ainokaze Liner, a 521s of the Ainokaze-Toyama (KATO 10-1453); the aforementioned 10-1395; and a "lost" Echico Tokimeki 129 pair (KATO 10-1516) whose sea-green wave fits right in.

 

Ayn

 

Edited January 13 by Ayn

[DenshaTen]

I have no suggestions but would love to see your layout 🙂

[disturbman]

My recommendation is that you look into the Tomytec Railway Collection trains. Tomytec released a few Hokuriku Railway trains. They release a Type 8000 in 2022 that is surely still available around. For the Type 7100 and 7200 I recommend to hunt them down on Yahoo Japan Auctions.

An alternative would be to see if GreenMax doesn't sell unpainted kits of the ex-Tokyu trains. You could also reused a MicroAce Keio 3000 to make a 7700.

You can hunt these down by copy-pasting the Japanese names from Wiki, https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/北陸鉄道.

And, for reference, https://www.1999.co.jp/eng/search?typ1_c=104&cat=rail&target=Organization&sortid=6&searchkey=Hokuriku+Railroad+(Hokutetsu)&spage=1&Make=Tomytec

Edited January 14 by disturbman

[Ayn]

14 hours ago, disturbman said:

My recommendation is that you look into the Tomytec Railway Collection trains. Tomytec released a few Hokuriku Railway trains. They release a Type 8000 in 2022 that is surely still available around. For the Type 7100 and 7200 I recommend to hunt them down on Yahoo Japan Auctions.

An alternative would be to see if GreenMax doesn't sell unpainted kits of the ex-Tokyu trains. You could also reused a MicroAce Keio 3000 to make a 7700.

You can hunt these down by copy-pasting the Japanese names from Wiki, https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/北陸鉄道.

And, for reference, https://www.1999.co.jp/eng/search?typ1_c=104&cat=rail&target=Organization&sortid=6&searchkey=Hokuriku+Railroad+(Hokutetsu)&spage=1&Make=Tomytec

Thanks for the suggestions.