Too much track!

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Thank you Dr Chris 👍

More on the yellow bridge sides...

The first appearance of this bridge appears to be in the 1988 Suburban Train (Blue Line) DX Rail Road Set, where it is moulded in white.

近郊電車(ブルーライン) DXレールロードセット

It represents the Great Seto Bridge, which connects the Japanese islands of Honshu and Shikoku, and also opened in 1988.

When the parts were re-used in the Motor Tomica Loop Road set 7416, they came with additional yellow spacers which made them to fit onto the white road piers better, as you can see in the box-front picture in my earlier post. These have the additional benefit that they raise the bridge sufficiently that a train can pass beneath it. These spacers do not appear in the equivalent B/O Tomica Loop Bridge Set, and as far as I know are unique to TW7416.

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Thanks for the information Dr Chris 😃

Just checking in. Life has got.in the way the past month or so but we did get into more of this lot last weekend. Washed most of the double track there are approx 140 pieces of curved track but interestingly only 6 double straight. Made this silly little loop for 4 trains:



All the track boxed up nicely still another 40 of the pieces we need to clean.



Did another Day out with Thomas this month too. I helped collect patches from ebay to make jackets for the kids. I even got a little thomas on one of my jackets for the day.

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The Lot you bought just seems to get more amazing the more you unpack it.

That Day Out with Thomas Donald engine looks great. Was Thomas there too?

Great idea of collecting patches and sewing them on the kids jackets 😃

Yep we got a photo with Thomas. Toby was out of order but have been on him as a regular rail motor and in character before.




Also getting the plarail engines from Amazon singapore I ordered on Saturday. They have been sitting at an aunts house for over a month just 45 min drive from us!

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Looks like you had a beautiful day too Rich. I can see a very strong family resemblance in your first picture.