Good Evening, Kapinozuka here.
We’ve obtained info. of the 10 Plastic Rail items to be discontinued as of this year, at the Miyazawa Model Exhibition yesterday, so here is the flash news on them.
The 10 items listed below are to be discontinued for the purposes of either the release of their renewal version, or to make space for new products. Therefore, the sales of these items will end once the remaining stock runs out, as
restocking them will be very difficult.
We hope for your understanding if the items go out of stock.
★Plastic Rail Cars: 3-Car Formation
•Nagoya Municipal Subway Higashiyama Line Type N1000 with Headlight
The headlights of this item lights up, a luxurious function for a Plastic Rail series.
This is the car of Higashiyama Line that runs on the main street of Nagoya.
•Osaka Municipal Subway Midosuji Line Series 21 With Light
This one is also one of the luxurious items with the lighting headlight.
The Midosuji Line can’t be missed when talking about the Osaka subways.
•S-13 Series Kiha183 Okhotsk
The classic diesel limited express of Hokkaido, Series Kiha183.
This item will be revised as the
S-13 Series Kiha183 Asahiyama Zoo.
•S-41 Cassiopeia *Type EF81
The Luxury Limited Express Sleeper Car Cassiopeia that competes for the top of Japan.
This item is to be revised as the
S-41Limited Express Sleeper Car Cassiopeia (Renewal, EF510).
•S-56 Tsukuba Express *Series TX-1000
The train that has been running from the beginning of operation of Tsukuba Express, which links Akihabara with Tsukuba.
This item will be revised as the
S-56 Tsukuba Express (Series TX-2000).
★Plastic Rail Cars: Single Cars
•K-04 EF58-61
The No.61 Car that was used for the towing of Imperial Trains. Something they call the "Royal Engine".
It retired in 2008, with much disappointment from the fans.
•K-07 DE10-1577
This is the No.1577 Car that belongs in Hiroshima, and is permanently stationed at the Iwakuni Station. As this car had been customized as a switcher, it is unable to run on the main rail.
Although this may be a very minor car, it seems that it had been a regular in the Plastic Rail series.
•K-08 EF66-12
Belonging to the Suita Engine Depot, this No.12 Car was unfortunately retired/dismantled this year.
By the way, the car before it, No.11 car had been collected by a Railway Museum.
•F-02 Type Wamu80000
The Type Wamu8000 that was the regular as the boxcar for transporting pulps ant pallets etc.
There were over 26000 cars produced, and were seen all over Japan, but the numbers has gone down to around 400 cars at present.
•F-04 Taki5450 (Tank)
The tank car that looks great with the yellow body.
The actual car is used for transporting liquid chlorine.
Do you have anything that you wanted, yet forgotten to get?
If you do have something you want in the list above, I recommend you get them quick.
By Kapinozuka.