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My Town Train Sets (2002)

First written June 6, 2024

In 2002, seemingly in part to replace the older First Try sets, a series of "My Town" (僕の街の電車セット) train sets featuring local trains and loops of track with switches to connect each set together into a larger map of Japan were released. The trains in these sets were either never released in any other form or only in alternate variants, making all of the trains set-exclusive or set-exclusive variants. The complete range of First Try set boxes can be seen in the Plarail Museum.

My Town Train Set Hokkaido (2002)

The My Town Train Set Hokkaido (僕の街の電車セット北海道) was released in 2002 and includes a C11 steam locomotive and passenger cars with an oval of track with figure-eight points. The side of the box shows the other trains on offer in the other sets, and the back shows how to connect the sets together to form a rough map of Japan.



Set contents
Quantity
Item
Photo
1 Hakodate Onuma (C11 and two passenger cars)
2 R-01 Straight Rail
6
R-03 Curve Rail
2 pieces R-12 Figure Eight Point Rail (one pair)


The C11 bears the running number 171, the real number of a C11 steam locomotive maintained by JR Hokkaido, and is one of the trains that operated the SL Hakodate Onuma service between 2001 and 2014. The side of the box says of the train: SL Hakodate Onuma. The SL Hakodate Onuma is a combination of a C11 steam locomotive and a passenger car and runs from Hakodate via Onuma Park. The passenger cars are painted a deep purple color called Kyoho-iro. It runs mainly on weekends and holidays from April to July. The locomotive and rear car have head and tail mark stickers.

The C11 is based on the new power C-12 Steam Locomotive, in particular the early 2000s version with new logo on the chassis that still uses a C battery.

Track in this set is new-for-2002 track with the large, squared-off Tomy logo molded into it.

The coaches are a very nice purple color. In 2008 another version of the C11 171 was sold in the C11 171 SL Hakodate-Onuma pack but this pack contains a single blue passenger car and an unpowered "banking" DE10 locomotive.

Set name My Town Train Set Hokkaido
僕の街の電車セット北海道
Release period 2002
Train rating Track rating
Accessory rating Overall
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