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R-28 Double Track Turnout Rail

The R-28 Double Track Curve Rail (複線ターンアウトレール), first released in 2008, is an amazing two-track turnout rail released towards the end of Tomy's period of producing cool new track types in the 2000s. The example shown here is from a 2017 production run. The R-28 pack includes four pieces that make up two turnouts. The back of the bag shown how the turnouts fit into the Plarail track system.

The turnout fits in perfectly with the double rail standard and has two turnouts that allow for the inner or outer rails in a double track system to be switched between the straight and curved sections, although there is no crossing over between the two tracks.

Each turnout comes as two pieces with a keyed nonstandard connector between. A standard R-28 pack includes one of each R and L, although the curve extension piece can be attached either way between them which gives you some additional options for turnout connection configuration.

The straight section of the turnout is the length of one and a quarter regular straight rails. The branch forms a complete 90 degree angle but the "cutoff" point between the two sections that make it up is not halfway along the curve, so to prevent you from getting "off-axis" and away from the 45 degree curve Plarail standard Tomy used a keyed connector. You can actually attach two of these turnouts directly together, but this places the rails an odd distance apart (translating them about 266mm apart as well as displacing the position of the other track connectors along the length of the straight sections) that would require some amount of trackwork to connect properly together.

These track sections are very cool and, as someone who likes to run many trains at once, essential for making any kind of junction on a main line with multiple tracks.

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