N: DIY-Catenary pole base for piers

These are replacement parts for catenary pole bases supplied by KATO with its 23-019 and 23-020 piers. Interestingly Kato supplements the 23-019-piers with pole bases of 69/18mm-distance, that will work only with standard double track viaducts, were the 6-leg piers (23-020) comes with the wider 83/25mm pole base, that looks nice only with the modern and wider slab roadbed viaducts.

In any case, ones the catenary pole bases are lost, you can’t buy them separate (at least I couldn’t find such offer). So here comes the DIY-spare part and a solution if you like to use the 23-019-piers with the slab roadbed viaduct or via versus the 6-leg piers with the standard viaduct.

In-between the both distances defined by KATO itself (83/20mm or 69/18mm) there is also a version fitted to the wider DIY-viaduct (73/20mm). The last one will by obvious reason go only with single track poles like 23-059.

Please note, that Type 3-bases will work only with KATO’s original piers, not with the DIY-piers I designed. For the latter, please use type 4.

Hope you enjoy these extended possibilities to create viaducts and ramps with KATO’s great track system. Happy printing and a lot of fun with your model railway layout!

Please note:
KATO’s Unitrack is the first and only choice in n-scale for mobile layouts and one of the best track systems in general:
https://unitrack.katomodels.com/what_is_uni_track
But “Kato” and “Unitrack” are trademarks of K.K. Sekisui Kinzoku, Japan and are used for reference only. The design presented here is neither supported nor authorised by the before mentioned trademark holder.

Please note the license:
My design is published under the CC BY-NC-SA license, which means that you can freely use this model for any non-commercial purpose and may remix this model freely as long as you provide attribution and share with the same creative commons license. Feel free to contact me if any questions.