Well the first of my much awaited wins arrived today, a batch of Takara PlaRail locomotives and rolling stock. There is a mixture, some Shinkansens, Suburban Passengers, Passenger Express, and just for Super we have some Goods trains - these are actually pretty cool - the level of detail is stunning bearing in mind their age and the fact they are smaller than Tomy PlaRail.

Anyway onto the pictures, I'll start with the Goods trains (2 of) and rolling stock;

First EF81 + 5 goods wagons, 3 with removable loads;

Now the DD51 with two rolling stock, this loco (as well as being a Super favourite) is particularly detailed, well chuffed with this one for sure 🙂 ;

Next up we have the suburban passenger trains - 3 different models, each is 3 cars long as per Tomy PlaRail;

Now we have a passenger express with an EF66 loco and two passenger cars;

Now we are onto the Shinkansen's, there are 4 different types;

Firstly the 'East i';

Now the '500'. there were 2 of these in the package, 1 currently a non-runner;

Not sure what one this is, it has 'Max' on the side, but I don't know which model, although I don't believe its the E3 as I already have one of those;

Finally we have this one, there were 4! of these in the package, 1 currently a non-runner, the other 3 fine runners;

So in total there are 14 trains, 12 of which are runners out of the package, the other 2 I reckon I'll be able to fix when I get time to dismantle them and check them out. The nice thing is in all 14 the battery terminals are pristine so the faults on the 2 non-runners is likely to be wiring related based on the prior shinkansen I fixed 🙂

The goods trains and the passenger express with the EF & DD class loco's were quite an eye-opener, the level of detail on these is stunning, including grills, individually painted window frames etc... Interesting that Takara was doing this back in 2001 and the newer PlaRail on the market doesn't exhibit this level of detail. Sometimes progress doesn't result in superior product.

Anyway I'll keep adding to this thread as new goodies arrive, if the Royal Mail keep to their promise my next package (bigger than this one) will arrive tomorrow 😃😃