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come to expect from Kato. The engine starts crawling at a little below the 1 s.m.p.h. mark and at full power tops out around the 150 s.m.p.h. mark. DCC users are in luck as TCS (K0D8-E) and Digitrax (DN163K0E) both make drop-in style decoders for the Kato E5. These decoders will allow the user to customize the speed tables for a more prototypical top speed. These engines were fast, but not that fast. Another benefit to using these drop-in decoders is that they both come with headlights that look prototypical. Kato uses a very amber looking LED which really doesn’t capture the look of an incandescent headlight. The TCS and Digitrax decoders have LED’s which much more closely resemble in- candescent headlight bulbs.
While the E5 locomotive is new tool- ing from Kato,
the Silver Streak
Zephyr cars are not. These cars have been in Kato’s arsenal for a while now and are just as gorgeous as when Kato first introduced them. The corrugated cars feature full interiors as well as highly detailed bodies. Quite notice- able is the stainless steel paint on the
carbodies, which has a nearly mirror- like finish and very fine metal-flake pigment. Some lesser quality cars on the market end up with speckled paint as a result of large metal-flake pig- ment and poorly applied paint. That is not the case with Kato’s Silver Streak Zephyr cars.
The car names and BURLINGTON let- tering are finely printed in black and are as crisp as any lettering I have ever seen. The trucks are molded in a silverish plastic. They have a slightly dull appearance compared to the car it- self. I might weather mine a bit but the model certainly doesn’t need that to look outstanding. The axles have nee- dle point ends which fit into metal cups under the bearing cap. This serves two purposes: the first is a nearly perfect electrical contact for optional car light- ing and the second is rollerbearing-like performance. These cars will roll down the track effortlessly.
The cars come unlit from the factory but Kato does sell lighting kits for its passenger cars. To install it will re- quire disassembling the car and in- stalling the board. It is a fairly simple
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