Japanese Grand Scale thread

[bill937ca]

Time for a little bit of Japanese Grand Scale with a track gauge of 5  inches,  7 1/4 inches or larger.

 

The SAKURADANI light railway 381mm

 

I believe all the equipment is home made.  The line originally ran around his house.

 

http://www.nakanoke.com/sakuradani/kidousen/index.html

 

http://www.geocities.com/sakuradani_railway/

 

http://www.geocities.com/sakuradani_railway/layout.html

 

 

Romney Railway   381mm

 

http://torokko.mining-jp.com/15in/niji_no_sato/

 

Cygnus Woodland Railway 381mm

 

http://torokko.mining-jp.com/15in/cygnus/

[bill937ca]

More big stuff

 

Jun's @ Gauge 1

 

http://www5a.biglobe.ne.jp/~popi/gauge1/index.htm

 

Senro Company  127mm or 381mm supplier

 

http://senro.na.coocan.jp/

 

127mm steam railway club

 

http://signal-a.com/

 

Dorinsha

 

Offers JNR steam locomotive and car itrems.

 

http://www.dorinsha.com/

 

http://www.dorinsha.com/kitseihin.htm

 

http://www.dorinsha.com/C562.htm

 

Yagi Lightweight Railway

 

http://homepage3.nifty.com/YKR/index.htm

[bill937ca]

A private five inch gauge railway in Japan.

 

http://www.ne.jp/asahi/beat/non/loco/loco0e.html

[bill937ca]

A couple of vendors of Japanese live steam engines

 

Accurate C62

 

http://www.accurate-inc.co.jp/index2.htm

 

Astor Hobby

 

http://www.asterhobby.co.jp/

[bill937ca]

More big stuff

 

Yagi Lightweight Railway

 

http://homepage3.nifty.com/YKR/index.htm

 

Check out the second floor hallway railway.

 

http://homepage3.nifty.com/YKR/rosen04.htm

 

Who says they don't have enough space?

 

http://homepage3.nifty.com/YKR/2F-UP01.htm

 

http://homepage3.nifty.com/YKR/2F-UP02-01.htm

 

Christmas 2002

 

http://homepage3.nifty.com/YKR/Santa2002-01.htm

 

New Years

 

http://homepage3.nifty.com/YKR/Toshikoshi02-03.htm

[Bernard]

let me guess....it runs from the kids bedroom to the bathroom?  I would hate to get up in the middle of the night and get run over by a train.

[bill937ca]

let me guess....it runs from the kids bedroom to the bathroom?   I would hate to get up in the middle of the night and get run over by a train.

 

Japanese houses aren't that simple.  The tiolet and the bathroom are usually separated.  It's a Shinto based belief that the clean should be separated from the unclean...  Oh and you take a shower before you get into the bathtub to soak.    No soap scum!!  8)

[Bernard]

Alright Bill, you brought up the Japanese bathrooms so now I can add this. When we were in Nagano, the toilets had remote control seat lifts and were heated plus it flushed two way, powerful and not powerful. This was to conserve the amount of water used.

Boy is my post way off trains! ::)

[Guest ___]

let me guess....it runs from the kids bedroom to the bathroom?   I would hate to get up in the middle of the night and get run over by a train.

 

..again.

[stevenh]

Was searching for an EF58 in Tsubame scheme (mainly to see the headboard location) and came across this site... check out the construction shots of the EF58... gigantic.

 

http://uaoki.nobody.jp/2003_2004_seisaku.html

[marknewton]

Was searching for an EF58 in Tsubame scheme (mainly to see the headboard location) and came across this site... check out the construction shots of the EF58... gigantic.

That EF58 is very impressive, but the little Mie Kotsu and Chosi Dentetsu steeplecabs were the models that really caught my eye!

Thanks for posting this, Steven.

 

All the best,

 

Mark.