Help with coaches required

[Lawrence]

Guys, I recently picked up a set of Kato coaches (510-1 thru 514-1), they are brown and one has a blue stripe, one a white stripe and observation platform and one part baggage car and perhaps a restaurant car?

 

I am having difficulty identifying them so any help would be great and also what type of loco would pull such a rake of coaches.

 

Having got all 5 for £15 including postage I went a bit bargain blind  but I don't think they have ever been used, there also appears to be a little packet in each case with copper strips in them, might these be pickups for future lighting?

 

Any help would be much appreciated

[bikkuri bahn]

Those are coaches used on express and limited express services immediately after WW2 such as Tsubame, mainly on the Tokaido Line before the introduction of ltd. express emu's.  A likely locomotive would be the EF58, or the C62.

[Lawrence]

Thank you BB, I take it I really should use the Brown coloured EF58 (the early one)

 

Does anyone know what the little copper contacts are for?  I will try and get a picture this weekend

[westfalen]

The copper strips you describe do sound like the contact strips for the Kato lighting kits.