Making a layout #30 Figure vol.3 :Snowball fight

My model train layout making is still going on and on and on. I guess perhaps I am making some scenery, structures, figures and a tram track from now on.


Kids who does snowball fight.


Put them in the crosscountry skiing trail next to the tracks. Nothing but a snowman can stand up by themselves. That's why I have to use some rubber bonds?

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Hannover tram

A Hannover tram car has arrived! Some of actual cars seem still active in Hiroshima Japan!!!! This is an increasing train cars for me after a long interval.



I thought even tram cars have 2 boggies but actually this one has only 1 boggie. Memories often dont go good :(

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Rubber bond

Bond bases on rubber. Didn't have this kind of bond, so I went to a "home center" (DIY shop) to get one.

The guide explanation note says I put this bond both A and B when I want to glue them. And have to wait for 5-10 minutes to get them half dried. Then have to connect them. Errrr I might try to do something else for the 5-10 minutes if I have a lot of things to do but then I am not sure if I remember I have something to connect and have to do that AFTER the 5-10 minuetes BEFORE this bond gets completly dried. But nowadays I think I'm getting older and older as well as my memory, sometimes easily forget anything. Probably I guess I had better be patient to wait for the 5-10 minutes doing nothing else, otherwise I will get some extra work to take the dried bond off of the objects to try it again :(

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Ticket for an express train "Kitakami 3" from Sendai to Aomori '79

Found a memory of one of my past trip to Hokkaido. It's a JNR (The forner Japan National Railways ) green car ( 1st class passenger car ) reserved ticket for an express train "Kitakami 3" from Sendai to Aomori. It says I seemed to buy it at Kooriyama station.

Now I think it just takes a little bit more than 2 hours from Sendai to Aomori by Shinkansen to Hachinohe then change train there for Aomori. But at that time, it took 4 and half an hours if I remember right even by a limited express train "Hatsukari" from Sendai to Aomori which most people took in that case. But I thought it was not interesting to do that, so I decided to choose something else and took that train that went to Aomori along a detour for Aomori. This ticket says that "Kitakami 3" left Sendai at 14:11. If I remember right, that train reached Aomori around 22:00 by running on the Tohoku main line to Kitakami then took its route on the Kitakami line to Yokote, then all the way to Aomori on the Oou line.
After I reached Aomori, I got in a ferry to Hakodate to take an express train "Niseko" to Sapporo. Took trains to reach Obihiro , Kushiro direction through Karikachi summit.

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Rerailer

It was not so hard to put locomotive, passenger cars whatever on rails, but I'm getting old, my eyes have difficulties to see anything closer!! lol...
Finally can't help buying this stuff.


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Front in spring

After the Japanese narcissus finished their blooming, some other flowers are displayed in our front. How many flowers below do you know?


The pink one at the upper left : cyclamen
In front of cyclamen : one kind of ivy (I think ) Hedera
The yellow flowers left side of hedera : Freesia
The yellow and dark blue flowers : Primula
The thin leaves left side of Primula : Crocus
The yellow flowers at the deep right : Kalanchoe

Freesia smells the strongest of them, but even then it's not stronger than Japanese narcissus.



I hang some "Hoozuki (Japanese lantern)" at the left side of a blackboard. The roots of Hoozuki really widespread in the ground, so you'd better have some in a pot, not in a flowerbed. If you put them in flowerbeds, probably other plants can not grow good.


Zooming up to a pot of hedera. Iveys do survive even if they don't get enough sunshine. For example at the north side of a house, inside of a house. But they don't seem they like cold temperture, their leaves get redder if it's 5C or colder. So I always get them inside of my house when it's getting colder and colder before they get red.


I put rosemaries also inside of the house to avoid snowfall. But as we use them for cooking, they are losing leaves little by little lol..... They like sunshine pretty much, not like ivey. So when it's sunny, I try to put them outside to get sunshine on them. It's not impossible to have some fresh flowers and herbs even in winter in this snowy places if you try.

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Can motor?

At the moment, I have 4 JNR express train diesel cars in my collection.


Kiha 65 with a motor and Kiro 28 without a motor.


Kiha 58 with a motor.


This is probably what we call "can motor". If correct, only car with a can motor in my collection.

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