2015/12/18閉鎖される鉄道模型のサイト 'Train^2' から移植した記事です.
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Tragedy! Caboose Lost in the Air Attack. ネットオークションで古い貨車を安く買えたのはよかったのですが, 予想もしない災難により一度も走ることなく失われることに... It was lucky that I got a cheap freight car on an internet auction. But the vehicle was unfortunately lost without running even once, by a calamity unexpected...
昨年前半にネットオークションで N ゲージのワフ28000を手に入れました(画像1: 連結器が捩じれてるのが残念). トミックスのブランドで恐らく1970-80年代に英領香港で作られた古い模型でした. ワフ28000はハンドブレーキと狭い車掌室を持つ有蓋車で, 第二次大戦中から1946年まで製造され, 1968年までに全て廃車されています.
In the first half of the last year I bought a 1/150 "N-gauge" model of type Wafu-28000 freight car of former Japan National Rail (see photo 1, though it's a pity that one of its couplers is bent), on an internet auction. It was a very old toy vehicle made in British Hong Kong, probably in 1970s or 80s, with a trade mark of Tomix. Wafu-28000 was a boxcar with a hand brake and a tiny section for the train conductor. The production was begun during the WWII and continued up to 1946. All the cars of this type has already been scrapped until 1968.
僕はこれを, このブログの舞台である架空モノレール会社, 新日本飛行鉄道が路面鉄道線で使う緩急車として買いました. 相鉄が1994年まで使っていたトフ400をイメージしたことは言うまでもありませんが, 黒一色だった相鉄トフとは異なり, 同部門の他の車両と同じオリーヴ色に塗り替えようと思いました.
I bought it in order to use as a caboose for the tramway department of New Japan Sky Railway Company, the fictional monorail business which is a stage of this weblog. Needless to say, I imagined the existence of this vehicle, based on Tofu-400 which had been used by Sotetsu Railways until 1994. But different from Sotetsu's Tofus, all of which were black, I wanted to redecorate the freight car in olive as same as other vehicles of my fictional tramway business.
おととし夏に身内で不幸があり, 幼い姪たちが一緒に暮らすようになったため, 模型いじり, 特に化学物質を使う塗装や塗膜剥離は困難になりました. 僕は IPA 槽を冷蔵庫にしまい込んでいました.
Because my sister in law has suddenly passed away in the summer of 2012, now I live with my young nieces in ages 5 and 8. It makes me difficult to enjoy tinkering a model train. Especially the processes applying some chemicals, for example colouring the car body with acrylic paint, or bleaching it with isopropyl alcohol (IPA), have become more difficult than they were before. I have locked up my IPA tank in the refrigerator for long time.
正月休みは長かったので, ようやく時間ができ, 鉄コレ2両を久しぶりで塗装しましたが上手くいきませんでした(画像2). そこで IPA に浸すことにし, ワフも一緒に入れました. 低温にも関わらず IPA はよく働き, 塗料は綺麗に落ちたので, ぬるま湯で濯いだ車体をバルコニーに干して, 姪たちと昼食のため外出しました.
Because this New Year vacation was long, I got enough time to paint a model train at last. I tried to colour two vehicles from "Tetsudo Collection" which is a series of cheap model train, in a combination of cream yellow and deep olive. But after a long blank I couldn't finish it successfully (see photo 2). So I decided to dip them into IPA tank, and did not forget the Wafu freight car which I bought many months ago to be put with them. In spite of cold weather IPA acted well and paints and markings were cleanly removed from the three cars. I washed the car bodies with lukewarm water and allowed them to dry on a balcony. Then I went out to take a lunch with my nieces.
約2時間後に帰宅してバルコニーのドアを開けると, 60 cm ほど移動した小田急1600形のボディ以外なくなっていました. 2両が行方不明. 風に吹き飛ばされた? 範囲を広げた捜索の結果, 小田急1600形の尾部を移植した大井川312形の車体が約4 m 下の地上で発見されましたが, ワフはついに見つかりませんでした.
After about two hours we came home. I opened the door to a balcony to recover the three vehicles of model train, and was surprised to find that there was nothing there except one body of Odakyu's 1600 type train. It was located about two feet south from its original place. And two vehicle bodies were disappeared. Wind blew them? As a result of a wide-range search, the body of Oigawa Railway's model 312, the tail section of which was transplanted from Odakyu 1600 type by me, was found on the ground, about 12 feet below. However the freight car Wafu could finally not been found.
何てことだ! 昨日の風でそんなに遠くへ行く筈ありません. 何らかの空軍力に急襲され, 拿捕されたのです. 僕の思うところ, それはからすに違いありません!
Jesus! As strong wind didn't blow yesterday, it could not bring the vehicle for such a long distance. The body of freight car Wafu-28000 must have been attacked and seized by some kind of air power. And this is my personal idea but it must have been a crow!
ようやく 丸の内線キットに着手 
