Blue Plastic Tracks

But most of these white viaducts don't turn all the way yellow until you can't differentiate a cream coloured viaduct from the white viaduct, same with the Red White Hikari-Go where colour change hardly ever happens due to the materials they are made of. The cream coloured viaduct has several mold differences too, so that is the main advantage.

Not yellow just a dingy white. Yours is so pure.

Does your viaduct discolour to dingy white? I'd like to know because the materials used are not so prone to discolouring in my experience.

Well it isn't as pure as yours thats for sure.

幻のプラレール - ちょうとっきゅうひかりごうニューセット、二代目赤白超特急ひかり号 || Phantom Gem of Plarail - Super Express Hikari New Set

A mysterious set that includes Made In Thailand signals, error (?) old slope rails, and curved rails of different designs. I think it is a set that will make a child cry of disappointment, but I did some maintenance yesterday so everything is functioning in top condition.

I can see why these boxes would be hard to find as the covers cardboard is so thin and flimsy. Nice set though, good find Vio

Every time I had received slope rails this old style the plastic was so brittle that the male end connectors broke and I have also had them where the female ends also broke.

Piers are needed on the upper end on these if one wants to span longer distances with straight rails so the built in risers don't help over the modern ones except eliminating one pier when connecting 2 slopes together. Always wished they would have had built in nubs to support a straight rail without adding any piers.

Since the laboratory and other team mates had no more space to store all the bulky sets, I was assigned to store it on the 3rd day of the auction, much to my surprise. I don't normally store stuff for the team though.

The plastic is much harder than the current slope rails today or the ones made in Thailand. And of course not easy to find in this condition. The ideal piers are the orange piers shown above due to the claws that interfere with the downward curve. It is not the best design, but the positioning of the in-built piers are placed in such a way to allow 1 track to be placed underneath. The idea of built in nubs are always appreciated though, but never was commercialised.

I just got back from the research trip.
Now, C58 Steam Locomotive which is manufactured for only 1 year in 1972, information is very scarce on the internet. I heard some people say 4 years from 1972 and 1 year from 1970, so information is fluctuating to a certain degree. However the C58 appeared in only 1 box, in the Merry-Go-Round mark era and the logo was discontinued in 1973. The G-nn number on the box is G-21 so it is definitely 1972. Welcome the C58 into the ever confused category of D51 body, where it shares similar mold with the early D51 and the C62汽笛入り.




Next is Electric Train (Yellow) from the 3rd generation box. The body looks like the first generation mold, but the chassis clip holders are different. It's cool that TOMY still decided to reuse the old mold from the 1964 in 1973.

Wow, those are old, that yellow commuter is in awesome condition for its age. Thanks for the videos Vio

Beautiful old yellow commuter!! 

It's interesting how the intermediate car and the tail car have also something like clip holders at the bottom of the middle doors...