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Sorry for the technical hiccups. Can you see these pics? Ah, the sun was up and I had a bit of time outside in the garden, so here are a few pics of the line. The track was laid last year, in August. Enjoying my first spring with the railway I realize how satisfying it is to see different plants spilling over here and overhanging there. I suppose the thyme is doing the best job of lineside bushes and bramble. [img]http://www.freewebs.com/mjhfoster/2367248380048759466TjJcRu%5Fph.jpg[/img] Here my Decauville inspired 0-4-0 'Sage' pulls a small goods train along the side of the shed. I got an IP Engineering deluxe chassis from my wife for Christmas which is the basis for this loco. The boiler is from a deodorant can with main panels of styrene (plasticard). [img]http://i75.photobucket.com/albums/i310/mjhfoster/2985798690048759466ICZJCs_ph.jpg[/img] Having traversed the endless wobbly straight, the driver begins to 'give it some welly' due to the slight incline here. [img]http://www.freewebs.com/mjhfoster/2472732860048759466PjUbGw%5Fph.jpg[/img] The back end of a train, a small planked wagon and the guards van pass 'Gunma Village Station' (just a halt really). Both rolling stock are scratch built. The wheels are really for use as rollers on Japanese sliding doors, but do the job well for 30cents a pair. You can just make out my wife and daughter having a heart to heart in the background. Hey girls, you should be watching the train! [img]http://www.freewebs.com/mjhfoster/2568833130048759466MDnmxv%5Fph.jpg[/img] Here is my railcar and carriage. These were the first things I built, based on actual 1920/30s railcars. The motor unit runs on a Tamiya simple gearbox with 2 AA cells. [img]http://image42.webshots.com/42/3/80/54/2489380540048759466GrDuGa_ph.jpg[/img] Just a small pic to show the front radiator. [img]http://www.freewebs.com/mjhfoster/2352705310048759466tskMAg%5Fph.jpg[/img] Bugger! I thought I'd got most of the weeds. Ah, well. This is the first water tower, made from a sweetcorn can, bamboo and wood. [img]http://www.freewebs.com/mjhfoster/2301821980048759466rRwZms%5Fph.jpg[/img] The guard hasn't noticed 'Kumi' the cow. She loves to see what's trundling along. As many do, I make my people from clay and paint with acrylic paints. By the way, recent talk about couplers and buffers - I use many things, here you can see a jeans fastener as the guards van buffer. [img]http://www.freewebs.com/mjhfoster/2002972250048759466YzFpHf%5Fph.jpg[/img] The signal was inspired by the recent article in the US GRMag, and no, I couldn't make just one. [img]http://www.freewebs.com/mjhfoster/2552184840048759466rLyShB%5Fph.jpg[/img] You can see the loco's name is written in 'katakana' (one of the three Japanese alphabets, this one mainly for foreign words). I got this idea from the Welsh locos, which had the Welsh name on one side and the English on 'tother (I think). Well that's it from the 'Takasaki Light Railway'. Looking forward to seeing more pics. Thanks for putting up with the increasing amount of 'what I don't know about computers'. Funny, on my home pc I have no problem viewing, but at work I could see...no, no I couldn't see! Matthew [bow][bow]
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