Kato #4 turnout mis-labeled!

[Ultratram]

Has anyone ever seen this before?! .......

 

I was having a heck of a time setting up a simple bypass siding and couldn't figure out why my trains on the main line and the bypass were still getting power. I operate in DC so I use the power routing feature to isolate track with the turn outs.

 

In this case I had a real head scratcher, played around with the routing settings, did some guest work with insulated joiners, read the internet. Couldn't find anything until I decided to replace the turnout and discovered something interesting. You can see that the two #4s are labeled differently.

 

The only other difference between the two is the small cutout at the base of the turnout.

 

Well.... frustration over at least.

 

[Densha]

That is a pretty unfortunate mistake. The labels are correct in Japanese in either case. It is just the English translation that is messed up on one of them.

[kvp]

The older one is the bad one. The one with pat.p (patent pending). The newer ones are correct and the patent has also been granted.