Plarail New Releases 2025 onwards (non-Thomas)

What is the R-17 F-far and what don't you like about it?

The new red bridges. I thought they might be quite useful myself, so I'm curious too.

   

 I wonder if this might be a repaint of an existing Plarail model (like the 5000) or something totally different?

Looks like a completely new mould to me.

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LOL...my over the hill brain assumed that R-17 referred to a train and I was looking all over for one. 🤔

Those red viaducts are actually a remake of the hard to obtain vintage bridges from the past. They are remade a little taller to fit the height of the modern risers and made so that they are self contained meaning they don't need a riser/pillar on each end to hold up the rails. I would be very interested in getting some of these if they had come in the grey color 😁. A coupe of years ago I worked with Nigels to recreate these with his 3D printers in grey with the same modifications that they used in this new release. He did a great job.

Thanks for setting me straight Dr Chris 👍

So I now assume that Plarail is no longer making these three way points that were only released in 2014. I still don't understand a reasoning or logic as to why Plarail/Tomy re-uses these numbers on new releases.

   

I can only assume they're reusing the catalog numbers to replace items that weren't selling well or replace items that were gonna get discontinued soon. To be fair, I don't see the 3 way switch get used very often.

I still don't understand a reasoning or logic as to why Plarail/Tomy re-uses these numbers on new releases.

As far as I can tell they've been doing it since 1995 (when the number J-13 was re-used). I doubt we're going to get an explanation now!

   

 I would be very interested in getting some of these if they had come in the grey color 😁.

On the other hand, I think that red bridges like this would look great on your only-gray-not-blue plastic tracks layout!

What would the right side of this illustration mean? Given the X, bridges cannot be stacked on top of each other, but a combination with risers is possible?

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As far as I can tell they've been doing it since 1995 (when the number J-13 was re-used). I doubt we're going to get an explanation now!

Oh I realize there will be no explanation now...I just don't see the logic in it as it becomes confusing when searching. I might accept it if it was because they are running out of letters and numbers but that isn't true. I am not smart enough to do the math in my head but there must be thousands of new combinations of letters with numbers so why continue to reuse them?

What would the right side of this illustration mean? Given the X, bridges cannot be stacked on top of each other, but a combination with risers is possible?

Thats a good question. If I were just to guess from the image...with that big 'X' I would assume that they can't be stacked at all in any configuration as I also would assume that there would be a green check mark next to the ones that could. Maybe a translation of what it says would clear it up for us?

What would the right side of this illustration mean? Given the X, bridges cannot be stacked on top of each other, but a combination with risers is possible?

Translation (as Super suspected):

' It is not possible to stack straight bridge rails on top of each other, nor is it possible to stack straight bridge rails and bridge block piers '

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Thanks Dr Chris 👍