Kato 5158B N Scale Narone 20 Passenger Car

Series 20 debuted in 1958 for the limited express “Asakaze” (Morning Breeze). It was the first passenger train that was composed of the same design, model, and color passenger cars in Japan. It was such an epoch making train, it was dubbed the name the “traveling hotel”. The appearance consists of a round-car end and is composed of curved surfaces and a round body. The three horizontal cream color lines painted on the body represent the modernization of the Japanese railway system. It won fame as a harbinger of limited express sleeping car trains.