To complement my Modemo 373 unit, I have taken the plunge and bought a second hand type 253 Narita Airport Express hand built brass three car EMU by ENDO. These trains operate several routes around the Tokyo area to the Narita airport.
These super models by ENDO are expensive by European prices and are only just at a viable price on the second hand market, I dont make purchases very often of this kind, and this might be a one off to go with my only other brass EMU set, a four car type suburban 209 by the KTM company.
The major problem with all these nice "handbuilt" models is the drive systems, OK as other models its totally hidden under the floor and powers the bogies through very small axle diffs, and there is no facility for DCC thus to get the models fitted with decoders will again be an expensive outlay.
