Tomix Cleaning Car History

TOMIX makes the BEST track-cleaning car around and wanted to share a page of the history of TOMIX cleaning cars. 

https://jmtn.wordpress.com/2011/05/09/tomixs-cleaning-sytems/

This is my TOMIX 6422 track cleaning car.

My latest additions to the Koki collection, are KATO 10-1418+1419 M250 Super rail Cargo and TOMIX 10000 Koki.

A few things from RG showed up today.

Casco 11 car bookcase.

Kato Rail Cargo set.

Kofu Paper Rail Transporter.

JR103 Magazine.

GM Motor Unit.

TOMYTEC JR145

And a ton of assorted bogies couplers, kits, resistors etc.

DZ126T and Lok-Sound Micro 5 Decoder in KIYA97

There is no room in the cab of the KIYA97 so I went looking for alternative locations. The only other area was the underbody of the KIYA97. I had to Dremel away a small portion of a detail but that was it now comes the routing of the wires stay tuned. I also added magnets to the cab and the body of the KIYA97 to secure the cab.

Update on the Super Rail Cargo set

Today I proxy bid on the Kato Super Rail Cargo sets 10-1418 & 10-1419 through RG-ROKKO and won. It's a great deal, I'm embarrassed to say how much I paid for it although it's used even these sets can command a high fee. I have this and some other nice goodies hopefully showing up next week. Below are some updated pics from the shop owner.

Free Papercraft structures and trains

A link was posted on JNS for free papercraft structures and model trains. The structures are buildings and large temples and shrines, There are also paper models of Shinkansen's 

https://online.brother.co.jp/ot/dl/purifure/mokei/train/train-05/
https://creativepark.canon/en/categories/CAT-ST01-0090/index.html
https://online.brother.co.jp/ot/dl/purifure/mokei/train/

New JR Railway Logo

I originally wanted the old Japan Railway Freight logo on my non-logo EH200 from Kato.  After doing more research I found out that Japan Railways is trying to unify its brand and make it more recognizable. They have been using an older logo to unify the brand. I printed out some JR logos on laser waterslide paper, which came out great. I made two sizes and the smaller size is the one that worked best, I put the new logo in the same position as the old one. I think it looks great and may do more in this fantasy scheme what do you think.