Tomix 90097 VS similar Kato product - DC51 Small Diesel starter for beginner review

#Tomix #Kato
A parcel from Japan just arrived. In it rough shape but always fun to open.
In this video, I will look at this beginner train set and compare it with a Kato / Gaugemaster entry level train set.
Video referenced in this review:
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- Kato CV1 compact oval set review: • Building myself an N s...
- Gaugemaster/Kato starter set review: • Kato / Gaugemaster GM2...
I hope you will have as much fun watching it as I had fun making it.
Music by Nesrality pixabay.com/users/nesrality-2...

[@gacheonlineliker]

this set is actually good for starting the model train.

[@leewaymodels]

That is correct. Pretty solid beginner set. Thanks for watching!

[@SeanLamb-I-Am]

That's a great looking starter set. I'm impressed with how smooth and slow-running the locomotive was right out of the box. In fact, I was so impressed that I hopped over to my favorite Japanese mail-order website and ordered two of the locomotives. They're on preorder and due to ship at the end of April, but at 7,740 yen (which included shipping to the US), I'm really happy with the price. I plan to use the locomotives on some small switching layouts and NTrak module private tracks.

[@leewaymodels]

That's great. So what you are saying is that these locomotives can be purchased separately? If so that explains why they are so nice. Some locomotives are so outdated that they cannot be purchased outside of their trainsets. If you have a link I might be interested.

[@railwaymechanicalengineer4587]

NOTE: This is a "kiddy" starter set, so the locomotive is an "imaginary" design based "loosely" on a couple of Japanese National Railway (JNR) diesel locomotive class designs. The wagons are real Japanese "Mini container" British style 4 wheel flat wagons. In Japan ISO containers are basically too large for the regular 3ft 6in gauge railway lines. So on both road & rail in Japan, and one or two other East Asian countries this "mini container" type is quite prevalent ! The coloured drawing on the packaging of a diesel loco is actually a DD51 Class NOT as written "DC". (DD meaning Diesel with four powered axles where A = 1, B = 2 etc). The DD51's full wheel arrangement is the rare Bo-2-Bo arrangement, where the centre bogie is unpowered, but includes a weight transference system to suit the various axle load limits of different routes ! JNR incidentally ceased to exist in 1987. When it was divided up into 6 separate Regional area passenger companies, and one Freight Company all under the general title of Japan Railways "JR". Most of these companies were returned to the private sector when they had moved into profit. There has also, always been a number of Private Railways, using various different Gauges, some big with hundreds of Miles of route. Some small with maybe just 10 Miles of route. These Private railways have existed almost from the beginning of Railways in Japan. The first railway in Japan being the Government Railway from Tokyo to Yokohama opening in September 1872, with the two British Engineers Richard & Robert Trevithick, grandsons of the man who built the Worlds first steam railway locomotive (also) Richard Trevithick, in Helston Cornwall UK, in 1805.

[@leewaymodels]

Very interresting information. Thank you! :)

[@MB-tp2hv]

What about a video on the first thing you got from japan that you showed? 😂

[@leewaymodels]

Yeah, I could do something about it. It's been heavily modded and is now far from the original it once was though.

[@Trainsaregreat365]

by the way tomix got a licence to sell in australia a few months ago

[@leewaymodels]

That's great! I guess we can expect English manuals to appear!

[@Trainsaregreat365]

@@leewaymodels we probably can

[@Trainsaregreat365]

I love the Japanese train videos you make In fact my favourite trains are Japanese n guage

[@leewaymodels]

They sure are nice. I have a few subscriber request queue up but once I am done with them, I have another Tomix trainset to show.

[@Trainsaregreat365]

​@@leewaymodelsI would love to see the tomix train set you will review sorry for replying late due to poor internet

[@leewaymodels]

I would love to do that video. Very busy in my life now... I should take a break and just film it. That brown delivery box is still sealed with the Tomix train inside...

[@Trainsaregreat365]

@@leewaymodels I think you should do it it will be very nice

[@WISDOMDUCK69]

Tomix is a model railway version of tomy

[@leewaymodels]

Thanks for the heads up, I searched in the company history and you are right. Tomy is a toy company (wasn't aware of it) and they have 2 divisions called Tomix & Tomytec for model trains . Tomix is the regular stock while the other one seems more for prototype / only one production run stuff.