June 25, 2009

Ive been working on the Railroad

Ive been working really hard trying to finalize a trackplan and keep being drawn back to this from Kato's website for some reason. Id like to have a city inside and outside of both loops and maybe a Tram line from one town to the other town. They'll be roads to and from both towns


120-841Double Track Plate Set {Red Shaded}
220-001248mm (9 3/4") Double Track Plate Straight {Green Shaded}
420-112282mm (11") + 315mm (12 3/8") Radius 45ยบ Double Track Plate Curve Track {Yellow Shaded}
320-435~438248mm (9 3/4") Double Track Truss Bridge {Blue Shaded}
123-126Suburban Station for Double Track Plate {Orange Shaded}
123-127Suburban Platform Set for Double Track Plate {Gray Shaded}

Conflict raises it's ugly head?

Well after I got my Viaduct set I really wasn't too happy with it, Im not sure if it was because I didn't have the space needed for the shops add-on or what.

I went on eBay and ordered a V11 - Double Track Set 20-870, I plan to run that set under the Viaduct set so conceivably I could have 4 trains running at the same time.

Ideally Id like to have an up and down section, maybe with the V11 & V13 sets I could do something like that.

Kato Viaduct Set 20-840 arrives

I got my Viaduct set today, it was a used set but in great condition. I got 16 straight sections and 6 curved sections. I also got the Japanese shops and the expansion set as well.


I ordered 2 curved sections to make up for the missing sections, boy what an adventure that was. The confusion starts when I found out the set I got was discontinued from Kato so I had to look up part #'s.

The reason Kato discontinued the 20-840 I think is so they could bring out the Super elevated Viaduct set 20-872. Of course they're new part numbers for the curved section let alone a new number for the set itself.

I ordered a pack of the #KAT-20-541 Double Track Viaduct Curve Track from www.zscalemonster.com , hopefully this should be the right #