Hakubanomori miniture Steam Locomotives

Someone newbie in our area complteted to build a train track for steam locomotives in his garden. He informed us to show them, so I went there to see them on 25th September 2004.

A forceful scene of a steam loco which exhausts smoke. How amazing it is that locomotives there are driven by real coal which is produced in England and Indonesia, not in Japan because they say Japanese coal exhausts a lot more smoke so that it would be hard for them to maintain stuff. A 5 inches(127mm) gauge.

Zoom in a bit!

Type plate which says C63 the 7th.

Switching track. People get on and off the miniture train here.

A locomotive pulls a boggie on which approximately 3 people can get.

I also own some miniture model train which is much smaller than them ( HO gauge - 16.5 milimeters gauge ). I need to provide some electricity at the rails to drive them so it's impossible for me to build a track outdoor like that because rain and snow can make the rails get rusty. I asked this point to the man and he replied that locomotives there are driven by

coal, so he doesn't need to provide any electricity at the rails so it's no problem for locomotives even if the rails get rusty. His dream and goal is like to drive a snowremoving locomotives in a snowy day in winter! What a fun! I sometimes may be there this coming winter to see how it looks when a snowremoving locomotives run! - webmaster