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(Portion one of four) Occur observe this distinctive video of Lewis Polk’s (President of Aristo-Craft Trains) Saturday afternoon discuss at the 2011 East Coast Huge Scale Train Show. Come find out about all the 1st that Aristo has launched to the Big Scale Garden Train Market. Also discover about breaking news about new on-board sound and new plastic track that will transform the way Big Scale Trains work. (Contains inset of PowerPoint Slides)
Video Rating: five / 5

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Go to www.EggHaulers.com to indication up for far more information. Every person loves Aristo-CraftTM Eggliners. There are a wonderful way to get the focus of individuals when you are operating your trains on your Large Scale Garden Railroad. Of course the only difficulty has been there is no rolling stock that are made particularly to compliment your Eggliner collection. Well your remedy is acquiring some EggHaulersTM to “haul” behind your little locomotive. The EggHaulersTM are the very same scale as your one:29 Aristo-CraftTM Eggliner. The oval of the base is the identical dimension as the oval of your Aristo-CraftTM Eggliner. So it actually is a match created in heaven. EggHaulersTM are produced of long lasting plastic and have the facts you like that are usually identified on far more expensive rolling stock. To preserve you funds these units arrive as a kit and are simple to assemble. Just snap on the prime, the two facet carriages and set up the plastic wheels. We contain a pair of 906 Kadee couplers so that your EggHaulersTM will have the best look possible and great compatibility with your Aristo-CraftTM Eggliner or what ever you want to use to haul them.
Video clip Rating: 4 / 5

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Video footage from Ken and Saralyn Sargeant’s November 21st FCMTS Demonstrate & Swap Meet. For more, check out: www.fcmts.org Following Present: Saturday, April 30th, 2011 Appreciate! -Kurt

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This is my second most favored product train, following the Swiss Alpine Express (see other video clip). It includes all the feasible Aristocraft Southern Railway “Crescent Limited” rolling stock from the Heavyweight era. All twelve pieces of rolling stock are painted in the magnificent green and gold scheme created by (as I realize it) president Samuel Spencer. One particular of the Pacifics can be observed in the Countrywide Museum of American Historical past of the Smithsonian Institution, in Washington (my employer before I retired). There are 2 sets of product or service 21405 which incorporates the Pacific locomotive and lengthy tender. There is a single extra sound tender, product 21805. Following is the buy of the coaches. 31605 Heavyweight two-axle RPO 31655 Heavyweight three-axle Baggage 31705 Heavyweight three-axle Combine “William Moultrie” 31805 Heavyweight 3-axle Coach “William Davidson” 31505 Heavyweight 3-axle Dining Vehicle 31305 Heavyweight 2-axle Coach “William Rufus King” 31405 Heavyweight 3-axle Observation Car “Patrick Henry” Thanks for seeing my video clip. Please visit my website of Swiss photos, with an emphasis on transport, at www.Gruetzi.com.
Video Rating: five / 5

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Come see how easy it is to set up seated people inside your Aristo-Craft PCC Trolley. Making use of 1/29 scale Aristo-Craft figures we will show you how to install them in this one/29 scale model. They are just the appropriate size and with a number of easy mods appear fantastic. It is simple to do and will take you much less than 30 minutes to make your Trolley search like it is open for business

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Chronology

Prehistory

In 1941 the Imperial Japanese Army occupied the Philippines, where they obtained a Bantam Mk II, and promptly brought it to Japan. The Japanese military authorities commanded Toyota to make a similar vehicle but to not model the appearance on the American Jeep. The prototype was called the Model AK and was formally adopted by The Japanese Imperial Army as the Yon-Shiki Kogata Kamotsu-Sha ( The Imperial era 2604th model compact cargo-truck ).

Later in 1941 the Japanese government asked Toyota to produce a light truck for the Japan military campaign. Toyota developed a 1/2 ton prototype called the AK10 in 1942. The AK10 was built using reverse-engineering from the Bantam GP. There are no known surviving photographs of the AK10. The only known pictorial representations are some rough sketches. The truck featured an upright front grille, flat front wheel arches that angled down and back like the FJ40, headlights mounted above the wheel arches on either side of the radiator and a folding windshield.

The AK10 used the 2259 cc, 4-cylinder Type C engine from the Toyota Model AE sedan with a three-speed manual transmission and two-speed transfer gearbox connected to it. There is no mechanical relationship between the AK10 and the postwar Toyota “Jeep” BJ. Most of the AK10′s were not actively used (unlike the U.S. Jeep) and there are almost no photographs of it in the battlefield.

BJ and FJ

BJ and FJ

Production

1951-1955

Assembly

ARACO

Yoshiwara, Aichi, Japan

Body style(s)

2-door Softtop

Layout

FR layout

Engine(s)

3.4 L I6 B petrol

3.9 L I6 F petrol

Wheelbase

2,650 mm (104.3 in)

1950 – The Korean War created demand for a military light utility vehicle. The war put a Jeep on Japan’s doorstep. The United States government ordered 100 vehicles with the new Willys specs and Toyota was asked to build them.

1951 – The Toyota “Jeep” BJ prototype was developed in January 1951. This came from the demand for military-type utility vehicles, much like the British Land Rover Series 1 that appeared in 1948. The Jeep BJ was larger than the original U.S. Jeep and more powerful thanks to its Type B 3.4-liter six-cylinder OHV Gasoline engine which generated 85 hp (63 kW) at 3600 rpm and 215 Nm (159 lbft) torque at 1600 rpm. It had a part-time four-wheel drive system like the Jeep. Unlike the Jeep, however, the Jeep BJ had no low-range transfer case.

1951 – In July 1951, Toyota’s test driver Ichiro Taira drove the next generation of the Jeep BJ prototype up to the sixth stage of Mount Fuji, the first vehicle to climb that high. The test was overseen by the National Police Agency (NPA). Impressed by this feat, the NPA quickly placed an order for 289 of these offroad vehicles, making the Jeep BJ their official patrol car.

1953 – Regular production of the “Toyota Jeep BJ” began at Toyota Honsya Plant (Rolling chassis assembly), and body assembly and painting was done at Arakawa Bankin Kogyo KK, later known as ARACO (now an affiliate of Toyota Auto Body Co.). The “Toyota Jeep BJ” Series was introduced alongside the following:

BJ-T (Touring),

BJ-R (Radio),

BJ-J (Cowl-chassis for a fire-engine).

1954 – The name “Land Cruiser” was created by the technical director Hanji Umehara. “In England we had another competitor – Land Rover. I had to come up with a name for our car that would not sound less dignified than those of our competitors. That is why I decided to call it ‘Land Cruiser’,” he recalls.

1954 – The 125 hp, 3.9-liter Type F gasoline engine added for the fire-engine chassis. Models are renamed as:

BJ-T (Touring),

BJ-R (Radio),

BJ-J (Cowl-chassis for a fire-engine),

FJ-J (Cowl-chassis for a fire-engine).

20 Series

20 Series

Production

1955-1960

Assembly

ARACO

Yoshiwara, Aichi, Japan

Body style(s)

2-door Softtop

2-door Hardtop

2-door pickup truck

4-door Station wagon

Layout

FR layout

Engine(s)

3.9 L I6 F petrol

Wheelbase

2,710 mm (106.7 in)

1955 – The Second generation, 20 Series was introduced. It was designed to have more civilian appeal than the BJ for export reasons. It also had more stylish bodywork and a better ride thanks to longer four-plate leaf springs which had been adapted from the Toyota Light Truck. It had a more powerful 3.9-liter six-cylinder Type F gasoline engine. The interior of the vehicles were made more comfortable by moving the engine 120 mm (4.7 in) forward. The 20 Series still had no low range, but it had synchromesh on the third and fourth gears.

1958 – The first Station wagon Land Cruiser was introduced with an even longer 2,650 mm (104.3 in) wheelbase (the FJ35V; wagon and van). The FJ25 production started in Brazil being the first Toyota vehicle

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Aristo-Craft Class66 Locomotive. Sold outside the USA this is a unique engine for Aristo.

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This is my new live steam locomotive. I have already begun the process to re-paint and very slightly kitbash it into a Canadian National loco using dry transfer lettering. I will also lightly weather this loco. The video was taken at my very first steam-up. I was so into it that I forgot to close the coal load lid over the burtane tank in the first number of shots. I painted the rather ugly electrical connection between loco and tender flat black, removed the long spring that gave too much tension to the butane line (forcing the tender flanges hard against the rails), painted the brass butane burner black and also the unsightly LEDs and lettering on the tender control panel. I have the manual to show me the buttons and with so few they are easy to memorize. The LEDS now look black and blend in but the lit ones still show through to tell you what state the loco is in. With these simple cosmetic alterations things look great! The manual left something to be desired. The instructions surrounding setting the loco to neutral seemed off and worse there was no mention on how to set the code for the transmitter. I am not familiar with this type so I spent a frustrating hour until, I figured it out on my own. For a complete newbie that would probably mean a desperate call to Aristo-Craft. Curiously, the manual did not say how to slide and clip the coal load into place. A minor point, and I figured it out on my own, but with a loco of this complexity there is no such thing as too …

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