An interesting Train Set

[aussierail]

Found this while doing my usual cruise around Japanese model railway sites, thought it may be a good one to share.

http://www.xs4all.nl/%7Eraicho/model.../sony/sony.htm

Regards
David.

[swisstrains]

Thanks for that David.
I have been an N-scale modeller for many years and I didn't know that Sony were once in the model railway business.
The models are crude by modern standards but some OO/HO stuff wasn't much better in the 1960's. In fact, some European N-scale models weren't any better in the 1990's

[Shed Cat]

I do like the ingenious solution for the bogies of the locomotive. By fixing
the innermost wheels you can mount a single motor in the locomotive body and power the wheels very simply.

I dont know if this solution is used elsewhere in N guage - I have only ever has 00 stuff myself where the whole bogie floats, like the full size loco, and has room to carry its own motor

[swisstrains]

Originally Posted by Shed Cat

...................I dont know if this solution is used elsewhere in N guage - I have only ever has 00 stuff myself where the whole bogie floats, like the full size loco, and has room to carry its own motor

I have never seen the Sony method used before. All current N-scale models have fully functioning bogies.
On some of the earlier Graham Farish N-Scale DMU's self-contained motor bogies were used but generally a single centrally-mounted motor drives both bogies through flexible driveshafts and gears.

[clive]

Lima did an n-gauge model about 30 years ago loosely based on a clayton (class 17) using the same chassis techniques, pretty basic but it still goes