Tomy PLARAIL - New Releases, July 2008

S-38 C56 Model 160 SL Kita-Biwako

In July, the SL Kita-Biwako makes its PLARAIL debut. During certain seasons, this train travels along a route in northern Shiga Prefecture , running an hour-long route between the cities of Maibara and Kinomoto. The SL stands for Steam Locomotive. Pictures of the actual train can be found here.

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New Designs: The Olympics

After staring at all our turns and slopes over the past few months, we decided to do something with an Olympics theme, and what better symbol than the five rings. After a few trials and errors (mostly errors) we came up with what we think is a pretty passable design. Because of the amount of bridge legs crossing over each other, we weren't able to overlap the lower two circles.

Still, it's better than what we originally had.

The final design includes the following sets:

2x R-18 Sloping Turn Rails
1x J-15 Mini Bridge Legs
8x J-14 Bridge Legs
9x R-03 Inner Turns
2x R-01 Straight Rails

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