A former supervisor of the Tokyo Metropolitan Government’s Bureau of Transportation has been arrested for forging train passes in order to accumulate cash to by model railroad equipment.

“I needed money to buy a model railroad and repay loans to consumer finance groups,” he was quoted as telling police.

Police suspect that the man was able to steal as much as six million yen over an eight-month period, and only became suspicious when it was found that a number of train passes with his name on them had been turned in for cash.