oigawa thomas b-train shorty

sunhuntin · sunhuntin 08-28-2015, 09:57 PM out of the game

not sure how new of a release this is, but here you go

thomas and coaches
http://www.1999.co.jp/eng/10324603

and rolling stock add on 2 pack
http://www.1999.co.jp/eng/10324608

these are listed as unpowered and n scale. ive no experience with this range, but im going to buy anyway. as it happens i have a second tomix thomas coming from jauce, so may be able to cobble something together to make this run.

**Super** · **Super** 08-28-2015, 11:03 PM Track Engineer

These must be the snap together model sets that I see Suzukawa put together. Quite small, maybe "N" scale? There must be a whole line of them I guess. She does have other videos about this type of models.

plarnold · plarnold 08-28-2015, 11:18 PM Senior Member

B-Train Shorty by Bandai.

N scale except for the length which is exactly half.

Most train sets you buy are static. You must buy the motor car that you must swap out of the models to run them on N scale tracks.

-plarnold

**Super** · **Super** 08-28-2015, 11:20 PM Track Engineer

So you can get some of these snap together kits that are motorized?

sunhuntin · sunhuntin 08-29-2015, 02:00 AM out of the game

thanks for the video, super. someone on facebook said he has used kato chassis to power these before, so hopefully the tomix chassis will work just as well.

plarnold, thanks for that. will have a look on jauce and see about this powered car. worst comes to worst, i can always mod one with one of the thomas coaches i guess? will have to have a look.

plarnold · plarnold 08-29-2015, 02:13 AM Senior Member

Bandai sells the motorised chassis that you can swap out easily.

Lots of people have also used standard N scale chasses on B-train shorty train sets.

-plarnold

**Super** · **Super** 08-29-2015, 02:19 AM Track Engineer

That is so cool, thanks Plarnold.

Nigels · Nigels 08-29-2015, 08:46 AM Posting Freak

I wonder if you could convert one of these to run on a Plarail advance drive unit? I doubt somehow the carriages would be long enough, but its an interesting thought.

Alternatively maybe one of the Tomytec moving buses chassis could fit, may have to have a think about this.

Incidentally I recently got the normal scale Tomy Plarail version of this train, highly recommended as the loco is quite a bit nicer than the standard tomy Thomas Smile

plarnold · plarnold 08-29-2015, 12:18 PM Senior Member

Plarail Advance is between N scale and B-train Shorty scale. It will be too long for the B-train shorty trains.

-plarnold