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Location / Name:
Isesaki City, Gunma Prefecture
What's Here:
TWO small gauge railroads, 5 inch and 24"?
Data:
GPS Coordinates: 36.33945, 139.15025
Phone A/C: --
ZIP: --
Access by train/transit:
None
Geography:
Flat
The Scoop:
Any of you who are on FACEBOOK may have seen the short videos posted by whomever owns this short line in Japan.
I have to believe the owner of this railroad is a railfan, and he has spared no expense in stuffing as much railroadiana on this property as he could! Bar none.
Signals, signs, crossing gates.... you name it!
The larger of the two lines looks like it probably uses a former mining battery powered locomotive, maybe 24" gauge. I used this close-up from one of the videos to estimate the larger tracks gauge. It could be a mm gauge track, as I'm not familiar with non-American small gauges.
The smaller track is widely advertised as 5 inch gauge, and most search results will make note of this track instead of the larger 24" line. In looking at the two maps from OPENSTREETMAP and OPENRAILWAYMAP, it looks like the 5" gauge track makes a circle around a building, maybe where he lives?
Acknowledgements:
Google Maps
Open Railway Map
Open Street Map
Wikipedia
Websites and other additional information sources of interest for the area:
None for now.....
You're on your own :-)
These all come from the Facebook videos.....
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