The Japanese Imperial train and Odakyu Romancecar in O-scale anyone? :grin

[Nozomi4ever]

Hello there.. I have found an Imperial train model and an Odakyu Romancecar in O-scale! It 's the same manufacturer again. Kumata that manufactures the JR 500 . Well here the links...

Odakyu Romancecar NSE: http://www.kmt.co.jp/newproducts/kmt/cars/odakyu3100nse_01/

Japanese Imperial train: http://www.kmt.co.jp/newproducts/kmt/cars/imperialtrain_03/

The prices are Ouch again... 

Imperial train full set(5 cars) 975,000Yen (But the model is really beautiful)

Odakyu Romancecar NSE(Full set)(11 cars) 1,118,250Yen

 

Well hope you enjoy the link!   :

[railzilla]

Nice and for 0 Scale the price is very reasonable.

Just think of having a nice garden with a Koi Pond and a romance car running around. 

[stevenh]

Awwww.... I was expecting an E655 and a hole in my credit card.... no such luck :)

[Martijn Meerts]

The European 0-scale models form non-mass-production-companies (basically all of them except Lenz, which is semi-mass-production) easily cost 3000 euro for a steam locomotive. So the prices aren't bad at all... An 11-car romance train in 0-scale would require quite a bit of space though =)

[Nozomi4ever]

Awwww.... I was expecting an E655 and a whole in my credit card.... no such luck :)

 

Lol.. Try to convince that manufacturer with a huge sum of money and they will commission it for you !  

[JSJNR]

Beautiful models. Must be noted however, that Japanese O Scale is not the same as European or US O Scale. The scale is 1:45 but the gauge is 24mm not 32mm like standard European O Scale. This due to the fact that all of JNR run on 1067mm (Kapgauge) only the Shinkansen uses 1435mm standard gauge. We run a set on our Layout. Here's a link to a YouTube clip

[miyakoji]

Around 3:50, are the fans in the DD51 spinning?  Where do you get that scale-correct 1067mm track?  Do you make it?  Fantastic layout and models.

[JSJNR]

The Tracks and turnouts (switches) are availble from Shinohara in Japan. The wide curved turnouts are custom built by Weichen Walter in Germany.

 

Here's some background on Kap or 1037 gauge

There are a wide varity of gauges worldwide.

Standard gauge is 4 ft 8 ¹⁄₂ in (1,435 mm)

Narrow gauge:

Scotch 4 ft 6 in (1,372 mm)

Kap or Cape 3 ft 6 in (1,067 mm)

Meter 1,000 mm (3 ft 3 3/8 in)

Italian meter gauge 950 mm (3ft 1 3/8 in)

Three foot 3 ft (914 mm)

Bosinian 760 mm (2 ft 5 7/8 in)

Italian narrow gauge 700 mm (2 ft 3 9/16 in)

 

 

Cape gauge is a track gauge of 1,067 mm (3 ft 6 in) between the inside of the rail heads, and thus is classified as a narrow gauge. It has installations of around 112,000 kilometres (70,000 mi).

The gauge 1,067 mm (3 ft 6 in) was first used by Norwegian engineer Carl Abraham Pihl and the first line was opened in 1862.

Carl Abraham Pihl (16 January 1825 – 14 September 1897) was a Norwegian civil engineer and director of the Norwegian State Railways (NSB) from 1865 until his death. Pihl was one of the main architects of the use of narrow gauge railways in Norway.

All of JNR (except the Shinkansen), most of Asia and Africa have Cape / Kap gauge tracks.

This accounts for the differnent scales or tracks for Japanses models compared to Europe and the US.

for example:

O                          32mm scale 1:33

OJ                        24mm scale 1:45

HO                       16.5mm scale 1:80

HO1067 or HOJ  12mm scale 1:87

N                            9mm scale 1:150 except Shinkansen 1:160

[JSJNR]

The Fans in the DD51 are spinning. The Model is from Musashi Hobby House. It has a 2 ZIMO DCC decoders installed. 1 Sound decoder and 1 function decoder making the fans, cab lights, head lights, shunting lights and red back lights inidivually switchable. The other Models are from Kumata, Sette and KTM. All with engines equiped with ZIMO or ESU sound decoders and all passenger cars with ZIMO function decoders with large 6800uf buffer capacitors for the interior lights. Layout controll by a ZIMO MX1.

[JR 500系]

Wow now that's something I've never seen before! A model with a million dollar price tag!

 

Looks really cool, but one would need HUGE space to let them run, not for a empty-pocket shoe-box dweller like me... Really cool stuff, with lights and sounds and even figures and all ¬¬

[JSJNR]

Hi JR500. If you are referring to the 975,000Yen for the 5 car imperial train set, as a million dollar price tag, these are Japanese Yen equivalent to about 9'545 U$ or 6'898€.

[JR 500系]

Hi JR500. If you are referring to the 975,000Yen for the 5 car imperial train set, as a million dollar price tag, these are Japanese Yen equivalent to about 9'545 U$ or 6'898€.

 

Oh my.... Actually I was referring to the Odakyu set NSE at 1,118,250 yen... Yap I know it's kinda quite alright for its scale and its detail and being 11 cars in all, but I still can't phantom myself spending so much on a model. The Mrs will KILL me for sure... Besides, I think the train will find a HUGE problem trying to make just a simple circle around my shoe-box apartment without the end cars kissing each other ¬¬  :)