I've been using Kato unitrack for years without a single problem, including switches, viaducts and bridges. All on my living room carpet 😊. I even ran the full California Zephyr ( 4 locomotives, 11 cars with lighting) for all of four minutes before the controller cut out. I guess it was drawing too much current.
If anyone finds it helpful, the dimensions of the bigger oval are given on the manufacturer's box as 1,337mm by 677mm -- that's about 140cm by 70cm or 4-and-a-half feet by 2-and-a-half feet.
Nice video... thinking I'm going to start with the M1 set and the V? that makes the "inner oval" , and then some #4 turnouts.... I've planned an HO layout for quite some time, but havent actually started building anything permanent, so i have decided to buy a hollow core door on which to start a portable N scale layout. I THINK I'm eventually going to modify the scenic ridge track plan to add some switching industries and interchange...but for now I need to get some track and a DCC locomotive and some boxcars... Thanks for the video, cheers.
You sure can do a lot in N scale on a door. 00 or H0 would limit you with just a very basic layout in the same space. My OO stuff is mostly DCC. I found out that on N scale, manufacturers have made it much more convenient to stay in DC only. There is a lot of accessories that cannot be found in OO or HO scale to support regular DC operations. Before switching to DCC in that scale, I highly recommend that you give them a look.
- There is an adapter kit that exist - you can either keep the analog control or use special decoders and motors - if you keep the analog controls, you can provide power to them either with one of those power supply. Alternatively there is another accessory that you can use to power kato switch controls.
I've been using Kato unitrack for years without a single problem, including switches, viaducts and bridges. All on my living room carpet 😊.
I even ran the full California Zephyr ( 4 locomotives, 11 cars with lighting) for all of four minutes before the controller cut out.
I guess it was drawing too much current.
If anyone finds it helpful, the dimensions of the bigger oval are given on the manufacturer's box as 1,337mm by 677mm -- that's about 140cm by 70cm or 4-and-a-half feet by 2-and-a-half feet.
Thanks for the information!
Yes, thank you for this info! I looked everywhere!
Thanks, Liked the video, it can always take a little fiddling to get a train running when first setting up.
Happy you liked it. If there is anything you would like see, let me know and I'll see if I can do a little something about it. Thank you for watching
This was nice to watch
Thanks Lucky Swordsmen! I really appreciate it!
Nice video... thinking I'm going to start with the M1 set and the V? that makes the "inner oval" , and then some #4 turnouts.... I've planned an HO layout for quite some time, but havent actually started building anything permanent, so i have decided to buy a hollow core door on which to start a portable N scale layout. I THINK I'm eventually going to modify the scenic ridge track plan to add some switching industries and interchange...but for now I need to get some track and a DCC locomotive and some boxcars...
Thanks for the video, cheers.
You sure can do a lot in N scale on a door. 00 or H0 would limit you with just a very basic layout in the same space. My OO stuff is mostly DCC. I found out that on N scale, manufacturers have made it much more convenient to stay in DC only. There is a lot of accessories that cannot be found in OO or HO scale to support regular DC operations. Before switching to DCC in that scale, I highly recommend that you give them a look.
Great video!
Thanks!
Your accent is fine. I live in northern NY lots of CF in Plattsburg.
Thank you, I really appreciate it!
I enjoyed box opening and demo. One question. What size is the large oval footprint size? Thanks for sharing.
Thanks! Happy you liked it. For the size, That would be around 140cm by 70cm roughly.
that was excellent! Thank you.
Glad I could help! Thanks for watching.
if you want to switch to DCC how do the track switches get power? and switched? do you still need this kato power supply to power the switches?
- There is an adapter kit that exist
- you can either keep the analog control or use special decoders and motors
- if you keep the analog controls, you can provide power to them either with one of those power supply. Alternatively there is another accessory that you can use to power kato switch controls.
a cuestion can I do run a dcc in this track ?
Thank you for asking. If you change the controller and have a decoder in each locomotive, yes.
What's the price sir?
I just looked it up, it is between 140 and 160 US$ at this time.
Good video apart from the bloody annoying music......😮
Thank you for your comment. I tried that without music... I was told that it was empty and dull... I guess it depends on each person.