September news from Train Trax UK - Announcements from Kato USA and Japan.

A belated email from TrainTrax this month. We have been tied-up planning, going and coming back from our attendance at The International N Gauge Show (TINGS). As always with shows it was great to meet so many existing customers in person. It was particularly lovely to see Keith, previous owner of Train Trax, as well as catch up a little with Hiroshi, President of KATO. We also had our Hex TRAK demo which attracted a lot of interest.

Now we've caught up with most of the admin and emails, we can open pre-orders for the most recent announcements from Kato, both North American and Japanese. There's just a few this time, probably to allow manufacturing to get back on schedule after some recent delays.

The 'posters' are above, but to help you out there are the following new items in the Japanese range: Tokyu Railways 5050 series 4000 series (in 'Shinkansen' style wrapping),  Tokyo Metro Chiyoda Line 16000 series,  (HO) EF58 (with icicle cut, brown),  381 series "Yutaka Yakumo",  and the E231 series 500 series from the Chuo-Sobu local line. From KatoUSA there's a long overdue re-run of the SD80MAC - available in Conrail and NS liveries for those of you pulling coal. See below for pre-order links.

Over the late summer we have had various arrivals. Take a look at the 'Just Arrived' page to find out what's now in stock. There's some large deliveries due next week with more DCC Sound fitted KatoUSA locos and more.

You might know that Train Trax is one part of what Model Railway Magic does. We also trade all brands and scales of used model railway equipment on our eBay store. In the next month or so we're planning to branch out into something else by taking over another small online brand from the modelling world. We think there's lots of potential for it to 'grow' and we hope some of our Train Trax customers will also find it useful. More news on this soon.

Happy modelling

Ian Miller

on behalf of Model Railway Magic/Train Trax UK