I'm not familiar with the Nomura, so my dictionary description is:
[Nomura Toys] Toy manufacturer founded after the WW2 (?). The company is known for its work on tin and plastic products, and for broadcasting TV commercials in Japan on a large scale. It was acquired by Hasbro of the United States in 1992, became its Japanese subsidiary, and survived until 1998. Check out a Japanese fan site, a US fan site, and Wikipedia-Japanese. The HO gauge battery-powered American train sets were introduced in Japanese "Train" magazine November 2017 issue p109 (by E. Nukina). The product was sold under the "TN Nomura" brand in the United States (?).
Given the fact that the products you mention have not been made for decades now and were clearly designed for the cheap toy sector, I agree to say it´s unusual. And maybe the wrong forum.
Happy times!
Ulrich (aka The Tin Man)
"You´re never too old for a happy childhood!"
Hello, I've been rather fascinated with TN Nomura and Rosko Battery Electric Trains for some time, I never found about that bizzare DB Locomotive they produced but i'm interested in other Engines that they made that ran on HO Track, I'm not sure if someone has a History book on TN Nomuras Trains buy if someone could provide a Timeline or diffrent sets they produced for the US Market that would be appriciated, I have a plastic injection moulded 2-6-2 that is being converted over to a 4-6-2 Pacific based on the Tin Plate Locomotive version they made. Cobbled together from the TN 0-6-2 Train Set, I know Rosko Had a 2-8-0 Consolidation Supplied to the US Market I'm still looking out for that engine. Marklin has seem to have taken the tooling for the my world Farming set and only seems to avaliable through them right now