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If you're into model railroading, you might have heard of Kato. If you have
not, most likely you are building a Christmas set, or just into the G scale, who
knows. Most of the N scale guys though are well aware of such a wonderful thing
as Kato Unitrack. Certainly, Kato not only
makes tracks and scenery, they also build cars, locomotives and ballast. All
this stuff looks great and such, but I'm not that comfortable talking about it.
Layouts have always been my passion.
The only intent of this website is to promote Unitrack-based layouts. Same
ideas may be applied to other brands and even scales, but we'd like to stick
with Kato.
For starters, the most natural thing is to purchase a K1 set (which also
comes with many of the Kato train sets), that includes an oval of track. It is
kind of boring watching your train running in circles (well, ovals) so we will
just reference it in here.
The K2 turnout set brings some limited amount of excitement into the
ordinary life. It includes two of the #6 switches (20-202 and 20-203), and a
bunch of track to create a basic loop. This is how it would look like (XTrkCad
software has been used) combined with the mentioned above K1:
Unfortunately the scale doesn't really allow us to display every single piece
in a greater detail.
Still boring. Well, now imagine an oval with a couple of K2s.
I really doubt that it gets any better.
This time we will use a wonderful 15 deg intersection piece (20-300):
Notice, that this layout is built from K1, two K2s and some extra
parts. Here's the list:
- 20-300 intersection
- two bumper tracks (there are three different kinds, choose the one you
want) - 20-034
- three 248mm straights (20-000)
- three 20-010 186mm pieces to even the turnouts out.
- 20-040 62mm piece
- Three 20-030 64mm pieces
- Four 20-100 45 deg curves
Tips
20-000 = 20-010 + 20-040
(continues...)
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