It is also possible to use for business purpose, Near-future city type seen in N-gauge railroad model

Introduction of genuine railway technology It was a booth of KATO (Kansui Metals) dealing with railroad model, which was exceptionally unique among the exhibitions where the booth was forested.

Although the image of a hobby with many enthusiasts is strong when it is called a railroad model, examples of utilization in the field of business, not as a hobby, were exhibited. Although it is not a feeling that it looks especially for business, I have visited all the booths to see what kind of place is an appealing point.

The details of the movie of the train model actually moving and business use are as follows.KATO
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KATO (Kansui Metals) is the first in JapanN gaugeIt is a pioneer who produced and released a railroad model.


When trying to plan a city transportation, when you try to make a railroad model, it seems that you can widely convey its goodness. Here, the Shinkansen system which makes traveling in Japan convenient,LRT (light rail)It expresses the figure of a near future city which combines.


The Shinkansen passes lightly and lightly.



You can see how LRT is used as a major means of transportation in the city.


YouTube - A railroad model of the Shinkansen circling around and around the train in railway technology exhibition


Although not running, the railroad models of transport freight trains used in each era were also exhibited. From the left, "two-axis freight car" which was used in the early Showa era, "Container limited express issue" which was running around 1945, and "Super rail cargo" which was used since 2003.


Various kinds of special mechanisms of actual vehicles such as "pendulum mechanism" which tilts the car body inward when turning the curve, passing through at high speed, and connecting part "inter-vehicle body damper" between vehicles suppressing meandering behavior of the car body And that is included.


"Kant" where the upper surface of the track is tilted to the inside of the curve to mitigate the centrifugal force exerted on the vehicle traveling on a curve is represented by an N-gauge railroad model.


By incorporating the railroad model into the scene of urban planning, it is possible to reproduce to the point that it is hard to imagine only by writing, and the future where the plan was actually advanced may be easier to imagine.