A new pseudo-British loco from Kato

[Bealman]

Let me fix that. I meant "manovourve."

[Newportnobby]

Let me fix that. I meant "manovourve."

@Bealman Your phone can't spell, either, George

Not really sure what Kato's game plan is with that apart from a supply of chassis which it seems have been available for some time. It's nothing UK prototype wise, just a strange looking monstrosity

[maridunian]

I'll shamelessly point out that some British outline swap-bodies are available...

https://www.ngaugeforum.co.uk/SMFN/index.php?topic=50566.msg659605#msg659605

https://www.ngaugeforum.co.uk/SMFN/index.php?topic=51128.msg669137#msg669137

Mike

[tutenkhamunsleeping]

Guess I'm just a "Rivet Counter" then, 'cos I reckon no amount of polishing can hide the fact that it's a turd

[RailGooner]

IMHO Kato are going to produce an 800 model that is designed for the internal Japanese market - i.e.: proprietary DCC solution - it's just coincidental that there's a small market to tap in the UK. This new model seems to be driven by Gaugemaster, so (again IMHO,) doesn't tell us anything about Kato's long term plans for or view of the UK market. I don't read this as good news or bad news, infact, barely is it news.

[Adam1701D]

That will go so well with my Lima V100 "Clayton"   

Some of Electra's top sellers are fictitious Class 350 livery packs to impersonate other EMU types, such as the Electrostar, so this is a real thumbs-up from me. A lot of people are happy to have something with the general feel of the original.

[msr]

And hopefully this will be somewhat easier to acquire than my lovely World Craft loco:


I repainted this to look like an ES1. It was originally built as a Joshin Electric Railway Siemens Gerhard Celtic Deki1 to which I fitted couplings, Fleetline loco buffers and painted the buffer beam red.

[Roy L S]

I think it looks kinda cute but a lot will depend on the price-point.

If this little loco is retailed at a suitably low entry level price, possibly as part of a Pocket Line set to attract modellers into British N then maybe it is not such a daft idea.

Roy

[Paul J]

The Pocket Line locos are cheap as chips, and it would fit into a plausible freelance scenario.

Why not do it?

[maridunian]

Lots more plausible as a 4-wheeled UK prototype I'd have thought, PO/industrial rather than BR:

http://www.emus.co.uk/spondon.htm

https://www.tramway.co.uk/trams/blackpool-corporation-no-717/

http://www.srpsmuseum.org.uk/10014.htm

https://ribblesteamrailway.wordpress.com/2016/01/29/english-electric-ee7881930-2/

https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:GEGB_English_Electric_Battery_Locomotive_Garratt_100_exhibition.jpg

https://www.philt.org.uk/Industrial/Ind-DE/i-nKcX55b

https://www.philt.org.uk/Industrial/Ind-DE/i-G2NvL8s

https://www.philt.org.uk/Industrial/Ind-DE/i-BsTS2ft/

Mike

[osborns]

I have been trying to find a suitable UK prototype for this chassis but to no avail so far. It represents a 14 foot wheelbase is also a scale 27 foot between  headstocks. If anyone has any ideas please do tell.
regards and Happy New Year

[Ian Morton]

£49.95 according to the GM website.

https://www.gaugemasterretail.com/magento/catalog/product/view/id/75252/s/gaugemaster-gm2260201

[Bob G]

Still waiting for the next run of class 73s from Gaugemaster. About two years now.
Would rather have them than a look alike loco that was relatively limited in operations (even compared to a 73!)

[Bingley Hall]

I've always said that Kato have no idea what they are doing

[Bealman]

Let me fix that. I meant "manovourve."

@Bealman Your phone can't spell, either, George

Not really sure what Kato's game plan is with that apart from a supply of chassis which it seems have been available for some time. It's nothing UK prototype wise, just a strange looking monstrosity

OK, then I'll try again: "manure" 

Triang had something similar in their Transcontinental range in the early sixties, by the way, with working pantograph: