Great shipping time. Legit product very happy customer

Kato has the best bang for the buck in switch and track systems, aside from maybe Tomix, which is a little harder to find, unless you order direct from Japan.The road bed looks very nice with its speckled gravel appearance (people don't seem to look at real tracks and their gravel beds), and the switch motor is already built in under the track in the bed, so no need to add an external drive for extra money!These remote controllables cost the same as many other brands charge just for manual types!Power routing can be selected for always on (in case you prefer that for a DCC operation), or the selected left/right track.Unlike some other turnouts, the frogs are conducting as well (important for short models, like European yard switchers), but they can also be selected on or off, if you have operational and running gear worries.BEWARE though, that Kato is not using a selective 3-wire system like most other drives, but a polarised two wire system, so you either need the Kato toggle controls (electric switches) and their rectifier accessory (if not using a Kato power pack), or build your own switch that reverses polarity for the needed direction!Kato #4 turnouts (switches) have an undeservedly bad reputation for derailments in many forums, but all my German Minitrix, Fleischmann, Roco, Liliput, and Piko locos and wagons, Most old Arnold German models, and new Kato and Tomix Japanese models run through my 5 track fully branching station yard with #4 turnouts with flying colours!I did a torture test, to make sure the expense for going all Kato and ditching my old tracks and switches would be worth it on a permanent, no going back layout.Some of my Minitrix and Arnold models are as old as late 70s designs and manufacture! Most are ok, except those steam engines with one lead axle, like the old Arnold BR41 and even the 70s design Minitrix BR52, that was reissued in the early 2000s with a condensation tender. Those 2 are a bummer not being able to run, but 2 out of way over 100 is a small price for having an excellent track system. Kato tracks play very nice with most of my models, which I cannot say about the now defunct Arnold track system, which gave me much more grief with more derailments!After extensive testing over the last week with dozens of models in my collection from vintage 80s to current running gear, I now know, that this derailment reputation of #4 turnouts is mostly entirely due to eighties US maker contracted running gear. My old pre-millenium US models are almost the only ones having a bad time on my Kato #4 switches! Since they also look like cheap toys compared to my also vintage German made models, which have no problems, I will be eliminating that old stock from my collection!After trying my other equipment (bulk of over 120 trains is all German and a few Austrian models, all made in Germany, and some Kato and Tomix Japanese models made in Japan) on the same layout in construction, I am happy to say, that Kato has a fine track system to go along with their Japan made models, new German, new US, AND even most genuine German made models from 70s/80s vintage!The unjustly in some online forums badly bashed #4 turnouts are the only real option for a compact layout under 10 feet (about 3 meters) long, because the longer #6 just eats too much space and cause higher track spacing, and the #4s work just dandy, as long as you don't have a lot of vintage US running stock from the last century!

very good point for the cost , works well.. still working now

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Die bekannte Qualität des KATO-Gleissystems in Optik und Funktion setzt sich bei den Weichen fort. Ich entschied mich für die Verwendung der Weichen Nr.4 und nicht Nr.6. Die Weichen Nr.4 sich kürzer und passen so besser zu meinen beengten Platzverhältnissen auf der Anlage. Obwohl sie im Vergleich zu den Weichen Nr.6 teurer sind, beinhaltet die Verpackung alle erforderlichen Ausgleichsgleise, sodass unmittelbar die parallele Gleisführung der Abzweigung möglich ist. Der unter der Weiche verbaute Antrieb arbeitet zuverlässig und die Nutzung als Stoppweiche erspart den Zusatz von Relais oder Schaltern. Empfindlich reagieren die Weichen auf Verschmutzung. Öl an der Zunge oder Streumehl führen sofort zu Problemen. Mit einem Pinsel und Feingefühl lässt sich dieses Problem leicht lösen. Auch wenn die Lieferzeit bis zu 4 Wochen dauern kann, (Direktversandt von Japan)...klare Kaufempfehlung!