Kominato Railway

We had to pick up someone from JR Goi station station just south of Chiba yesterday. It's the junction too for the Kominato Railway, an almost ridiculously pittoresque private line that heads west into rural Kazusa and links up with another private line that will take you down in a bumpy railcar to Ohara on the Pacific Coast.

The Kominato workshops are at Goi - untidy old timber buildings full of lathes and the like out of the ark and dedicated to keeping their vintage railcars moving. It all dates back to the 1920's when the line was built - or at least looks like it. An absolute gem, worth a trip to Japan just to ride this one I would say.

And next to the workshop is this wonderful tin shed sheltering three veterans from the rain. I wonder if any of them could be restored to working order now, I'm sure that in the UK someone would leap at the chance. There are two Baldwin 2-6-2T's (Nos. 1 and 2) built in the USA in May 1924 (Works nos. 57776 and 57777)And next to them is a Japanese Imperial Railways B10 4-4-2T (yes - an 'Atlantic' tank!) No. B104.

Does anyone know if the Baldwin drawings from that era are in an archive somewhere? I'd love to build a 7mm model of one of these.