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It was worth the 12 weeks wait - Fatso - 01-13-2009
:hey: Two of my kato europwan high speed traind arrived today the british eurostar and a french one heres a few pics
Re: It was worth the 12 weeks wait - Tom - 01-13-2009
Those are COOL. I wonder if something similar is what the State of California here has in mind for the "High Speed Rail" route they want to build?
I once saw someone paint a TGV model into a Silver and Orange Sacramento Northern scheme since it was an interurban back in the day. Pretty neat actually.
Re: It was worth the 12 weeks wait - Sarge - 01-13-2009
Those are pretty cool
Re: It was worth the 12 weeks wait - Biased turkey - 01-14-2009
Very impressive.
I envy you because I'll never be able to run such nice TGVs on my 23" X 36" oval layout with 9" 3/4 radius curves.
Jacques
Re: It was worth the 12 weeks wait - Cannonball - 01-14-2009
Careful! You'll poke an eye out with those things! :mrgreen:
Sharp looking trains, man.
I'd like to see those babies running.
Re: It was worth the 12 weeks wait - Jesso - 01-14-2009
Jacques,
Kato makes their stuff to run on fairly tight curves, my SD70m's run without a problem on 9 3/4, I think Herc has run SD90's on 9 3/4.
Plus I bet they launch off of tight curves really nice at really high speeds
.
Re: It was worth the 12 weeks wait - scubadude - 01-14-2009
Mike,
Nice stuff, I'm sure it was worth the wait. Do you and your son still have the website?? I forgot the address.
Re: It was worth the 12 weeks wait - tetters - 01-14-2009
Oooo...those are slick!
Re: It was worth the 12 weeks wait - Herc Driver - 01-14-2009
Those are beautiful! Wow, they really look good. If they'd run on 9.75 inch curves - I'd seriously consider getting them too just 'cuz they look so good. (And yes....Kato makes even the SD90's run on 9.75 curves so maybe there's a slim chance these passenger trains would too. Granted, there's a pronounced overhang that's not prototypical, but oh well, I can live with it.)
Re: It was worth the 12 weeks wait - Wiredup - 01-14-2009
damn those are dead sexy!
I want some for my own layout (how unprototypical would that be? Euro high speeds traveling in the mountains alongside Canadian steamers...)
Re: It was worth the 12 weeks wait - Fatso - 01-15-2009
Hi new website coming soon new track plan will more of a german feel to it as i have bonn station built with 5 line coming into it to hold the 5 main european high speed train also have nice kibri castle built and karlsbebege station with 6 lines going in and outplus ice 3 german high speed loco al in N SCALE
