Japan to build park with miniature railway

[John Ashworth]

East Japan city, model railroad maker to build park featuring running locomotives

The city of Tsurugashima, north of Tokyo, is teaming up with a famed model railroad maker to build a park boasting a mini-railroad that will ferry passengers around its green expanses on special days... will feature 620 meters of narrow-gauge railway tracks carrying small passenger trains several times a year... already collected locomotives and passenger cars for the park railway line, including a Belgian steam locomotive that was used in sugarcane fields in Taiwan, and a diesel locomotive that was used by a steel manufacturer in Kanagawa Prefecture, south of Tokyo...