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Anonymous Sun 24 May 2015 08:16:45 No.821700 View Reply Report Delete

Quoted By: >>821703 >>822850 >>828204

I like japanese trains.

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Anonymous Sun 24 May 2015 08:27:16 No.821703 Report Delete

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>>821700
COOL STORY BRO

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Anonymous Sun 24 May 2015 08:28:29 No.821704 Report Delete

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Latios !!d1SMd2T44aD Sun 24 May 2015 08:29:18 No.821705 Report Delete

Quoted By: >>821986

You can straight up tell that's JR Aizu

In another part of the middle of nowhere. The Limited Express is dying for it has now been obsoleted by the Shinkansen

Nice sights it had though once it gets to the farm bit
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CLXkXkl9Dh8
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6HJcQNOlKcQ

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Anonymous Sun 24 May 2015 08:30:44 No.821706 Report Delete

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Anonymous Sun 24 May 2015 17:36:41 No.821936 Report Delete

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>>821704
I know shit about trains, but this one looks pretty cool. How is this type/brand called?

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Anonymous Sun 24 May 2015 19:45:42 No.821986 Report Delete

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>>821705

There's no way San'in and the other more ... "remote" regions are ever going to be feasible enough for Shinkansen to set foot

>>821936

It is the JR Hokkaido 789 EMU, that livery specificly is for the Super Hakucho LImited Express service that runs between Shin-Aomori and Hakodate through the Seikan Tunnel ... which will probably be replaced by the Hokkaido Shinkansen when it opens next year

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Ithaqua Sun 24 May 2015 20:45:19 No.822002 Report Delete

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>>821986
I saw the Twilight Express on a video. It goes along the west coast of Japan bypassing the big cities and it's a sleeper.

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Anonymous Sun 24 May 2015 22:10:02 No.822038 Report Delete

Quoted By: >>822243

>>822002

Well, technically the north coast of the mainland towards Hokkaido. And the original service stopped in March 13th this year and now is a special cruise train for the Sanyo area from Osaka to Shimonoseki, which somehow takes a whole day plus a few hours

Video of the last run and yes, it is an occasion

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tNww0qrgUHs

Ithaqua

Ithaqua Mon 25 May 2015 08:23:17 No.822243 Report Delete

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>>822038
Shame. Looked like a cool train. Japan's Orient Express.

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Anonymous Mon 25 May 2015 11:09:14 No.822293 Report Delete

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Speaking of sleeper trains, I want to ride it.

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Anonymous Tue 26 May 2015 10:08:28 No.822850 Report Delete

Quoted By: >>823309

>>821700

The fuck, I don't remember seeing that type on the right when I lived in aizu. Guess they started getting newer hand-me-downs from the JR mainlines? Must be using it for the Banetsu express, but it isn't dressed up in that black and red livery...

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Anonymous Tue 26 May 2015 23:11:11 No.823309 Report Delete

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>>822850

That particular 485 Series EMU set in the pictured was used for the Nikko / Kinugawa Ltd. Express service from 2006 to 2001 before moved to the Sendai Depot and used for the Aizu Liner. I believe the 485 set you mentioned with the black and red livery was reverted back to the old JNR livery in 2011

Speaking of the 485 series, since they are gradually being phased out by JR East I have to wonder when will it finally stop being used for regular services

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Anonymous Wed 27 May 2015 17:18:13 No.823713 Report Delete

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Anonymous Wed 27 May 2015 18:19:18 No.823724 Report Delete

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>>823713

I have to wonder if they are actually going to scrap the Yamanote E231s after all of them are replaced by E235s in the future

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Latios !!d1SMd2T44aD Thu 28 May 2015 05:19:13 No.823955 Report Delete

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>>823724
The process is already happening. Although each E235 apparently has one car taken from an E231 and redecorated to look like an E235 as a "demo car". The E231 hallmark is the flooring which wasn't changed
The E231 would be past its useby date in 2020 anyway since it was designed for 15 years of service

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Anonymous Thu 28 May 2015 10:27:35 No.824020 Report Delete

Quoted By: >>824031 >>824366 >>825514

>>823955
>since it was designed for 15 years of service
What the fuck? Most buses can run past 15 years of service.

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Anonymous Thu 28 May 2015 10:43:01 No.824031 Report Delete

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>>824020
Japs upgrade really fast, dude.

They like 'em young and fresh. By the time they're able to consent they're considered too old.

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Anonymous Thu 28 May 2015 11:02:30 No.824040 Report Delete

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>>823955

There's is only one set of E235 so far and it is still under testing (I spotted it sitting in the Tamachi Stock Yard while I was heading towards Yokohama last month), the replacement process will probably begin when the production cars are delivered

>>824031

topkek.jpg

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Anonymous Fri 29 May 2015 01:13:32 No.824366 Report Delete

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>>824020

Since the 1990s, JR East begin to design trains with the goals of reducing weight, building cost, and service life of their new vehicles (any scrapped vehicles have their materials recycled into new trains). That became important due to several reasons:

- After the privatizion of the JNR and the economic climate became worse after the 80s cost reduction is necessary
- By keeping older trainsets running it would increase maintenance cost and impede technological progress
- Reducing weight would reduce energy waste and cost of electricity

The JR East 209 Series became the first product built with those principles in mind and despite the above a good number of them got rebuilt anyway to replace even older stocks

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Anonymous Sat 30 May 2015 04:30:22 No.824823 Report Delete

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Anonymous Sun 31 May 2015 17:44:44 No.825514 Report Delete

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>>824823

That Godzilla is too small

Also, to add to my point in response to >>824020 , there are still many places in Japan that use 30+ year old stocks (mainly outside of most large cities) but even those will eventually be replaced by newer ones

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Anonymous Sun 31 May 2015 20:11:22 No.825562 Report Delete

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Anonymous Sun 31 May 2015 20:34:10 No.825573 Report Delete

Quoted By: >>825734 >>825804 >>876899

As someone who rides Japanese trains daily in Los Angeles...I do not.

Because they are from the 80s, have a horrendous seating graphic design, and the seats are uncomfortable.

Also:

>"portable chargers, snacks and chips y'all"

Every trip.

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Anonymous Mon 01 Jun 2015 05:48:13 No.825734 Report Delete

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>>825573
Those are not even trains, theyre glorified shitty little trams that idiots like to call "light rail" to hide the fact that they are slow and shitty trams.

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Anonymous Mon 01 Jun 2015 05:56:25 No.825735 Report Delete

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Pic related, a real train.

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Anonymous Mon 01 Jun 2015 07:25:27 No.825753 Report Delete

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>>825734

light rail = trams

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Anonymous Mon 01 Jun 2015 10:58:21 No.825804 Report Delete

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>>825573

>"portable chargers, snacks and chips y'all"

I can actually hear that in some sort of southern accent, I lol'd

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Anonymous Wed 03 Jun 2015 01:44:54 No.826694 Report Delete

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Anonymous Wed 03 Jun 2015 13:40:18 No.826900 Report Delete

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Anonymous Thu 04 Jun 2015 05:34:39 No.827208 Report Delete

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>>826900
What's the ratio of DMUs to EMUs in Japan? It seems like they have quite a bit of diesel-powered rolling stock. Does anyone have a map showing which rail lines in Japan are electrified?

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Anonymous Thu 04 Jun 2015 05:49:01 No.827211 Report Delete

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>>827208
wikipedia has some good figures:

JR East
System length
Total 7,526.8 km (4,676.9 mi)
Double track 3,668 km (2,279 mi) (49%)
Electrified 5,512.7 km (3,425.4 mi) (73.2%)
High-speed 1,052.9 km (654.2 mi) (14.0%)

JR West
System length
Total 5,012.7 km (3,114.7 mi)
Double track 2,253.2 km (1,400.1 mi) (44.9%)
Electrified 3,385.7 km (2,103.8 mi) (67.5%)
High-speed 644.0 km (400.2 mi) (12.8%)

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Anonymous Thu 04 Jun 2015 10:39:16 No.827267 Report Delete

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>>827208

Page 3 has a map as of 1998

http://www.jrtr.net/jrtr16/pdf/f48_technology.pdf

As far as the ratio of DMU to EMU as concerned, Shikoku and Hokkaido has more DMUs due to their electrified lines are much shorter

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Anonymous Thu 04 Jun 2015 15:19:04 No.827366 Report Delete

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Anonymous Thu 04 Jun 2015 15:22:09 No.827369 Report Delete

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Anonymous Thu 04 Jun 2015 15:24:09 No.827370 Report Delete

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>>827366
Say what you will, but the E5 is my favorite shinkansen.

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Anonymous Thu 04 Jun 2015 15:26:03 No.827371 Report Delete

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Anonymous Thu 04 Jun 2015 15:26:44 No.827373 Report Delete

Quoted By: >>827374 >>828195 >>828198 >>829187 >>838740

Dat nose

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Anonymous Thu 04 Jun 2015 15:27:43 No.827374 Report Delete

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>>827373

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Anonymous Thu 04 Jun 2015 15:31:40 No.827377 Report Delete

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Anonymous Fri 05 Jun 2015 21:57:27 No.828195 Report Delete

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>>827373
>>827374
>>827377
squidward

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Anonymous Fri 05 Jun 2015 22:10:04 No.828198 Report Delete

Quoted By: >>828199 >>828205

>>827373
>>827374
>>827377
>scrolling through /n/ to see if anything is interesting
>spin past this thread
>wtfwasthat.jpeg
>did someone post a close up of a dildo?
>that is a train wtf
>insert train entering a tunnel innuendo here

all aboard?

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Anonymous Fri 05 Jun 2015 22:12:20 No.828199 Report Delete

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>>828198

Considering how there are a lot more tunnels for the newer Shinkansen lines and newer trains will probably end up as phallic as possible due to MUH AERODYNAMICS, I'm definitely aboard

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Anonymous Fri 05 Jun 2015 22:28:39 No.828204 Report Delete

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>>821700
Metro North does too, apparently.

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Anonymous Fri 05 Jun 2015 22:32:07 No.828205 Report Delete

Quoted By: >>828206

>>828198
>>828199

The best part is they're shaped that way specifically because of all the tunnels to reduce tunnel boom.

>Japan's long-nosed bullet train stops 'tunnel boom'
http://www.newscientist.com/blogs/onepercent/2011/03/japans-long-nosed-bullet-train-1.html

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Anonymous Fri 05 Jun 2015 22:33:51 No.828206 Report Delete

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>>828205
>"I was encouraged by the cheers of female passengers at stations when Hayabusa trains passed through on test runs."

Gee, I wonder why...

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Anonymous Sat 06 Jun 2015 15:10:48 No.828487 Report Delete

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Anonymous Sat 06 Jun 2015 16:59:42 No.828521 Report Delete

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>>828487
>death on track failure now guaranteed!

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Anonymous Sat 06 Jun 2015 17:34:05 No.828537 Report Delete

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>>828521
This happened during rush hour and only 11 people died.

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Anonymous Sat 06 Jun 2015 17:40:42 No.828542 Report Delete

Quoted By: >>828704 >>838741

>>828521
>implying you wouldn't ride the fuck out of this

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Anonymous Sat 06 Jun 2015 21:39:45 No.828663 Report Delete

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>>828537
>only 11 people died

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Anonymous Sat 06 Jun 2015 23:38:00 No.828704 Report Delete

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>>828542
That seems completely pointless if not totally fracking awesome!

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Anonymous Sun 07 Jun 2015 01:53:18 No.828730 Report Delete

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>>828663
in a plane crash usually everyone dies.

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Anonymous Sun 07 Jun 2015 04:58:38 No.828769 Report Delete

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>>828730
with no survivors

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Anonymous Sun 07 Jun 2015 08:36:07 No.828806 Report Delete

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>>821706
Beautiful.

Latios !!d1SMd2T44aD

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Latios !!d1SMd2T44aD Sun 07 Jun 2015 08:41:42 No.828807 Report Delete

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Anonymous Sun 07 Jun 2015 23:58:13 No.829187 Report Delete

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>>827366
>>827370
>>827373
>>827374
>>827377
Been on this a few times pretty comfortable and quick

Latios !!d1SMd2T44aD

Latios !!d1SMd2T44aD Mon 08 Jun 2015 00:04:36 No.829193 Report Delete

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>>829187
Comfortable is subjective though. Did you into the Gran Class?

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Anonymous Mon 08 Jun 2015 14:35:05 No.829506 Report Delete

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Anonymous Tue 09 Jun 2015 04:58:21 No.829848 Report Delete

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>>829193
no just standard and i found it fine for 2 or three hours but was glad i was off to be honest

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Latios !!d1SMd2T44aD Tue 09 Jun 2015 10:45:24 No.829902 Report Delete

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>>829848
The E5 in Green Car is nice and I could enjoy being there for a while, but if I were to ride again, I'd be paying up for Gran Class just for shits and giggles. But what I didn't like was that the windows were the same size as standard unlike the 700/N700 which did have larger windows in Green. (I can say I abused the fuck out of the Green JR Pass)

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Anonymous Tue 09 Jun 2015 12:13:50 No.829912 Report Delete

Quoted By: >>829921

>>829506
Omg is he okay?

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Anonymous Tue 09 Jun 2015 12:40:25 No.829921 Report Delete

Quoted By: >>830194 >>846929

>>829902

>Paying extra for the Green Pass

Is it really that worth it though? (inb4 yes)

>>829912

>Implying whoever did that wouldn't be dead instantly

Latios !!d1SMd2T44aD

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Latios !!d1SMd2T44aD Tue 09 Jun 2015 23:54:02 No.830194 Report Delete

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>>829921
>Begin long winded justification
It depends on how much you value your money. I flew jetstar (actually bretty good once you leave Australia because all the bogans being dropped off at the Coolangatta are replaced by returning japanese tourists who keep their mouthes shut) and stayed in cheap 6000-10000 yen/night business hotels which I found offered what I needed and wanted because I wasn't going to spend much time there except sleep. So the $70 or so extra seemed worth it especially as I was going to be milking it. The only other thing is that you have to do the extra work of reserving a seat before riding. And in peak hour, reserving 5 minutes before the train departs may mean that a duo can't sit together (although often adjacent the aisle) due to all the window seats being taken by businessmen
It's like flying domestic business class minus the perks. You get the seat, blankets, a wet towel and on Hayabusa or Hayate, a drink. Whereas Gran Class is supposedly more like the experience as there's more premium complimentary alcohol selections, shoehorns, snacks, bento and all that. The seat is also arguably better just on appearance than the domestic business class offerings on some airlines here too

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Anonymous Wed 10 Jun 2015 13:51:39 No.830393 Report Delete

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>>830194
I think I'll do Green next time, but how much extra is Gran class?

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Anonymous Wed 10 Jun 2015 15:29:48 No.830431 Report Delete

Quoted By: >>830682

>>830393

You basically have to pay for the Limited Express + Gran Class suppliment fares (even if you have the Green Pass) since the it only covers the basic fare if you go Gran Class. As far as cost is concerned that depends on the distance

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Latios !!d1SMd2T44aD Thu 11 Jun 2015 00:51:37 No.830682 Report Delete

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>>830431
Pretty much this. The JR Pass (doesn't matter which one) is meant to give you a "discount" on Gran Class as it covers the basic fare (so knock about $100 off the Tokyo-Aomori run). No clue on whether the staff would even be aware of that's how it's apparently meant to work. Then again, the guy at Yoshiwara station didn't look like he ever saw tourists but knew what a JR Pass was. Obviously if you have the JR Pass, and the Green one at that it isn't worth it. But it's a shits and giggles thing, and still far cheaper than flying business class

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Anonymous Sat 13 Jun 2015 02:04:06 No.831532 Report Delete

Quoted By: >>831547

>not having a rack on your tracks

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Latios !!d1SMd2T44aD Sat 13 Jun 2015 02:56:01 No.831547 Report Delete

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>>831532
Pfft, Hakone Tozan don't need no racks

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Anonymous Mon 15 Jun 2015 14:56:51 No.832756 Report Delete

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Anonymous Wed 17 Jun 2015 18:01:24 No.833777 Report Delete

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So ... [spoilerdoesntwork]any bets on how quickly will the first problem arise for the Hokkaido Shinkansen because "LOL JR Hokkaido"?[/spoilerdoesntwork]

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Latios !!d1SMd2T44aD Thu 18 Jun 2015 08:19:12 No.834042 Report Delete

Quoted By: >>834081

>>833777
I'm betting the Hokkaido Shinkansen was partly a "donation" by JR East. Chances are the H5 is too and they'll probably just keep it in their depot because they don't trust JR Hokkaido

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Anonymous Thu 18 Jun 2015 11:32:31 No.834081 Report Delete

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>>834042

Well, the "good news" is that JR Hokkaido already built their own depot next to the station with the long-ass name in Hakodate (seen on the right next to the end of the curve. They say it houses 4 sets and will eventually expand to house 13 sets when the Sapporo extension is completed. [lolnospoiler] Besides, what exactly makes you think that it is mostly the work of JR East anyway? (Besides with all the things that have went down with JR Hokkaido) [/lolnospoiler]

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Latios !!d1SMd2T44aD Thu 18 Jun 2015 11:41:12 No.834087 Report Delete

Quoted By: >>834092

>>834081
>implying they can afford all of this
Then again, they're not publicly trading so they can probably get away with a lot of things. Considering the lines which are slowly dropping off, it does make me wonder how much they're pulling in

Or maybe they'll put JR East crew in all E5 runs past Aomori so that nothing gets smashed like a past incident on their trains
http://ajw.asahi.com/article/behind_news/social_affairs/AJ201309230101

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Anonymous Thu 18 Jun 2015 11:47:04 No.834092 Report Delete

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>>834087

One of the documents from JR Hokkaido already mentioned that they will begin crew training later this year

http://www.jrhokkaido.co.jp/press/2014/140910-2.pdf

[Worrying Intensifies]

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Anonymous Sun 21 Jun 2015 01:38:17 No.835357 Report Delete

Quoted By: >>840201

Dat grey livery. Shame this service was discontinued.

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Anonymous Sun 21 Jun 2015 13:37:55 No.835520 Report Delete

Quoted By: >>835532 >>835587 >>850075

I like japanese women.

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Anonymous Sun 21 Jun 2015 14:14:09 No.835532 Report Delete

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>>835520
good for you now can you please get your non-transportation posts out of /n/

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Anonymous Sun 21 Jun 2015 16:23:58 No.835587 Report Delete

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>>835520
>>>/int/
>>>/jp/
>>>/r9k/

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>>828807
FFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFF

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Anonymous Sun 21 Jun 2015 18:32:33 No.835645 Report Delete

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>>828487
...I just came

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Anonymous Sun 21 Jun 2015 19:59:38 No.835686 Report Delete

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>>835626

Japanese train photographers use their obsession of dia(grams of train schedules) for such shots, news at 11

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Anonymous Thu 25 Jun 2015 18:05:59 No.837522 Report Delete

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>>837405

The Japanese believes that seeing a Doctor Yellow would bring you good luck due to its schedule is not publicized, [lolnospoiler]should I assume seeing the one that is preserved in the SCMaglev and Railway Park in Nagoya doesn't count?[/lolnospoiler]

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Latios !!d1SMd2T44aD Thu 25 Jun 2015 22:42:19 No.837640 Report Delete

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>>837522
Given my misfortunes after seeing it, I would be inclined to say so
Some railfags have their ways of knowing the Dr Yellow's diagram though, possibly through the powers of autism and clairvoyance

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Anonymous Fri 26 Jun 2015 10:24:59 No.837835 Report Delete

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>>831547
Hakone is fucking magical. loved it.

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Anonymous Fri 26 Jun 2015 11:58:12 No.837847 Report Delete

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>>835686
Snow in Japan!!! i always thought Japan was a tropical country, next thing someone gonna tell me there japanese skiiers :D..

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Latios !!d1SMd2T44aD Fri 26 Jun 2015 12:42:07 No.837864 Report Delete

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>>837847
The winters are dry humidity wise (it will rain anyway) and it can snow just about everywhere except Okinawa
Winters are survived in most places using humidifiers and aircon (if you're staying in a hotel, the death machine called a kerosene heater at a house I guess)
It's not tropical but the summers are brutal anyway with Singapore tier humidity, especially in places of high concrete mass, which triggers things like this
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n732oeU2mPA
The key to survival is aircon. Just set it to something like 18 and sit there (hotels are concrete so there aren't really any other options, unless you're at some house then you'd probably want to do ghetto insulation)
And yes they have ski resorts. JR East owns one of the big ones altogether. Gala Yuzawa

Anonymous

Anonymous Fri 26 Jun 2015 13:38:52 No.837880 Report Delete

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>>837864
Thanks for the info, Japan seems like a really interesting place that i would like to visit.

Anonymous

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Anonymous Fri 26 Jun 2015 17:07:34 No.837921 Report Delete

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>tfw my city and county now has a rail network

thanks japan

Anonymous

Anonymous Sun 28 Jun 2015 13:53:56 No.838691 Report Delete

Quoted By:

>>837847

>Japan
>Tropical

They are no where near the Equator for that kind of climate, also >>821704

Anonymous

Anonymous Sun 28 Jun 2015 14:57:01 No.838740 Report Delete

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>>827373
I seen that on SNL back in the 1990's. The Ambiguously Gay Duo drove that.

Anonymous

Anonymous Sun 28 Jun 2015 14:59:06 No.838741 Report Delete

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>>828542
A lot cooler if the top part of the rail is a bike trail.

Anonymous

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Anonymous Tue 30 Jun 2015 05:08:50 No.839593 Report Delete

Quoted By: >>839640 >>839859

Burn baby burn.

Anonymous

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Anonymous Tue 30 Jun 2015 07:27:37 No.839626 Report Delete

Quoted By:

>Japanese Trains

Latios !!d1SMd2T44aD

Latios !!d1SMd2T44aD Tue 30 Jun 2015 09:04:07 No.839640 Report Delete

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>>839593
I'm guessing the aircon was too cold for him to handle. First time out of the 弱冷房車 maybe?
Side note: setsuden and cool biz can go back into the hole they came out of

Anonymous

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>>839593
goddamn

Anonymous

Anonymous Wed 01 Jul 2015 13:17:28 No.840201 Report Delete

Quoted By: >>840231

Can anyone explain the digital pictures on the very front of the trains in

>>823309
>>835357

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Anonymous Wed 01 Jul 2015 14:20:24 No.840231 Report Delete

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>>839640

I lol'd as much as I shouldn't laugh at the 弱冷房車 bit

>>840201

They are what Japanese people called a "headmark", which indicates what service is the train running as. And [lolnospoiler] the one you quoted on the bottom is a traditional (aka non-digital) headmark [/lolnospoiler]

Latios !!d1SMd2T44aD

Latios !!d1SMd2T44aD Thu 02 Jul 2015 05:15:48 No.840529 Report Delete

Quoted By: >>841191

http://en.rocketnews24.com/2015/07/02/further-details-about-shinkansen-fire-incident-emerge/

Confirmed for old man

Anonymous

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Anonymous Thu 02 Jul 2015 15:46:21 No.840730 Report Delete

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Anonymous

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Anonymous Fri 03 Jul 2015 17:17:52 No.841191 Report Delete

Quoted By: >>841253

>>840529

I thought that was pretty much confirmed a few hours it happened

>>840730

Where and what line? That doesn't look like anything JR has

For the purpose of this thread, anyone got any one-off trains that didn't enter production due to reasons?

Anonymous

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Anonymous Fri 03 Jul 2015 20:25:24 No.841253 Report Delete

Quoted By: >>841302

>>841191
Do experimental trains count?

Anonymous

Anonymous Fri 03 Jul 2015 22:00:06 No.841302 Report Delete

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>>841253

Sure, and I still couldn't believe they actually put what basically is cat ears on the set

Anonymous

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Anonymous Fri 03 Jul 2015 22:23:50 No.841321 Report Delete

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>>841302
Cutest shinkansen.

Anonymous

Anonymous Fri 03 Jul 2015 23:09:54 No.841357 Report Delete

Quoted By: >>841372

fuck trains and anything about them

Latios !!d1SMd2T44aD

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Latios !!d1SMd2T44aD Sat 04 Jul 2015 00:06:53 No.841372 Report Delete

Quoted By: >>861025

Eidan 06

According to japanese wikipedia, it was a testbed for a new design approach and also because they didn't really need it in the end

>>841357
But anon you cannot fit into ashibata coupler!

Anonymous

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Anonymous Mon 06 Jul 2015 16:24:47 No.842685 Report Delete

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JR E655

An one-off Joyful Train set by JR East, which also doubles as Imperial Train for the Emperor when you add the Imperial Carriage between them

Anonymous

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Anonymous Fri 10 Jul 2015 11:00:21 No.844712 Report Delete

Quoted By: >>844891

JR KuHa 415-1901

An one-off double decker control unit to test the feasibility of double decker commuter trains, the test results was the basis for the 215 series double decker (which they ended up only making 4 sets anyway)

Latios !!d1SMd2T44aD

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Latios !!d1SMd2T44aD Fri 10 Jul 2015 12:02:20 No.844729 Report Delete

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E995. Testbed for alternative energy solutions for countryside services. Started life as a diesel hybrid, then it ran on hydrogen fuel cells, then battery. Eventually spawned the E301 battery train which also remains to be a one off so far

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Anonymous Fri 10 Jul 2015 17:41:46 No.844891 Report Delete

Quoted By: >>844925 >>845009

>>844712
Why doesn't Tokyo use more double deckers? It seems like an obvious solution to overcrowded trains.

Anonymous

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Anonymous Fri 10 Jul 2015 18:26:53 No.844917 Report Delete

Quoted By: >>855322 >>855566

Any love for Polish trains? The one pictured is a Pesa Link.

Anonymous

Anonymous Fri 10 Jul 2015 18:42:40 No.844925 Report Delete

Quoted By: >>845009

>>844891

They only have double decker cars to be used as Green Car for the long distance commuter services as those lack standing room, and only having 2 doors per side does not help the problem of loading and unloading a large amount of passengers in one minute.

Fun Fact: For the Yamanote Line E231 series, each 11 car sets used to have 2 cars that have 6 doors per side instead of the usual 4 for the rest of the cars. However, those 6 door cars were scrapped and replaced by 4 door cars due to having to standardize the door spacings to fit platform barriers and to accomdate E233 series whenever they have to share platforms

Latios !!d1SMd2T44aD

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Latios !!d1SMd2T44aD Fri 10 Jul 2015 23:06:07 No.845009 Report Delete

Quoted By: >>845035

>>844891
Narrow gauge DDEMUs are considerably difficult to engineer, additionally since the Japanese wire height loading gauge is lower. The prime example of a majority narrow gauge DDEMU is the JR215 which operates Interurban runs (kind of like the Sydney suburban, Takasaki Line, Tokaido Main, Sobu, etc. just all seats reserved because it's a Liner service). Even that isn't a full DDEMU because they had to fit the equipment somewhere. The driving cars are single decker with a raised floor to fit the traction equipment while the first and last 2 cars are motor cars. In Sydney, the norm is to fit the equipment in the roof, but in this case it isn't possible due to the lack of space and existing space already being taken up by aircon units
On another hand, there were some issues in execution and intent I guess. The JR215 uses narrow doors and gangways like on the JR suburban Green Cars which really isn't set up for commuter crush (something which the usual 4door single decker cars that go through Tokyo are designed for first and foremost and the Sydney DD can somewhat handle due to 2m wide doors, deliberately angled stairways, mixed seating and so forth)
I've always taken the 215 to be kind of an attempt at trying to copy the Sydney DDEMU design but falling into the traps of mistakes made in Sydney designs (especially the Tangara) during the 1980s without copying the benefits. Namely - use of deprecated traction technology even though VVVF was already becoming widespread in Japan and fixed seating on non Green Cars (where transverse seating is available in Japan, you can usually flip or spin the seats, same thing in Sydney, except for the Tangara and C sets). It also had other (non Sydney) faults like the aforementioned doors and poor acceleration

>>844925
Perhaps the other thing to be considered is that 6 doors wasn't a massive improvement over 4 doors due to the nature of platform crowding. Although there were car capacity increases as the seats could be folded up

Anonymous

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Anonymous Sat 11 Jul 2015 00:36:57 No.845035 Report Delete

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>>845009

>Platform crowding

I don't think they can fix that even if they have all the money in the world since widening the platforms might cause too many disruptions

Back to the one ofs, this is the JR Kyushu KiHa 72 DMU which was purpose built to suppliment the KiHa 71 DMU (which was converted from older DMUs) used in the Yufuin no Mori Ltd. Express service. According to JR Kyushu they will add a fifth car into the set starting from July 18th this year

Anonymous

Anonymous Mon 13 Jul 2015 19:33:01 No.846491 Report Delete

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Also the 215 series DDEMU doesn't look particularly comfortable either, especially if you are really tall

http://ameblo.jp/seventhheaven1992/entry-11850148929.html

Anonymous

Anonymous Tue 14 Jul 2015 15:13:18 No.846929 Report Delete

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>>829921
>Implying whoever did that wouldn't be dead instantly
>sarcasm

Anonymous

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Anonymous Wed 15 Jul 2015 04:31:20 No.847245 Report Delete

Quoted By: >>847250 >>847503

700 series Shinkansen in California High Speed Rail livery.
>tfw this will never be real

Anonymous

Anonymous Wed 15 Jul 2015 04:37:39 No.847250 Report Delete

Quoted By: >>847858 >>848880

>>847245
Unfortunately not.

I could get behind CA-HSR a lot more if they were collaborating with JR in order to ensure the best possible operations. Instead, the winning bid will some Chinese contractor with a bunch of garbage rolling stock.

Anonymous

Anonymous Wed 15 Jul 2015 14:49:55 No.847503 Report Delete

Quoted By: >>847861 >>847868 >>848881

>>847245
That looks terrible. Why did the USA high speed railway choose a disgusting, garish, outdated, inelegant, and generally shit looking combination of blue and yellow? This aspect alone signals incompetence in regard to railways.

Anonymous

Anonymous Thu 16 Jul 2015 00:55:56 No.847858 Report Delete

Quoted By:

JR Hokkaido posted the construction summary of the H5 sets, are there any in depth documentary on how they are built?

http://www.jrhokkaido.co.jp/shinkansen/h5/index.html

>>847250

I'm pretty sure even the Chinese stuff can't be worse than the Fyra V250s

Latios !!d1SMd2T44aD

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Latios !!d1SMd2T44aD Thu 16 Jul 2015 01:07:46 No.847861 Report Delete

Quoted By: >>848826

>>847503
It kinda reminds me of the TVM section indicator

Anonymous

Anonymous Thu 16 Jul 2015 01:14:35 No.847868 Report Delete

Quoted By: >>848881

>>847503
Blue and gold are California's state colors.

Anonymous

Anonymous Fri 17 Jul 2015 12:59:08 No.848826 Report Delete

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>>847861
At least that has white to separate the colours. Plus it is a small sign, not a huge EMU.

Anonymous

Anonymous Fri 17 Jul 2015 16:32:52 No.848880 Report Delete

Quoted By: >>867873

>>847250

Wrong. The chosen vendor will most likely be Siemens, on the basis that they already supply the NEC with rolling stock and have a huge factory in California that supplies the state with light rail vehicles.

Anonymous

Anonymous Fri 17 Jul 2015 16:34:58 No.848881 Report Delete

Quoted By: >>849769

>>847503

They didn't "choose" anything, it's just a render. It's based on the current Amtrak California colors, but I suspect that they'll go for a different liverly ala the surfliner which is blue and silver.

>>847868

California's "colors' are technically red and white. Or when it comes to railroading, red and orange (think Daylight Limited). AC chose blue and yellow for their regular rolling stock because it looks good on regular trains.

Anonymous

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Anonymous Fri 17 Jul 2015 16:38:57 No.848884 Report Delete

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Anonymous

Anonymous Sun 19 Jul 2015 04:19:42 No.849769 Report Delete

Quoted By:

>>848881
>They didn't "choose" anything, it's just a render. It's based on the current Amtrak California colors, but I suspect that they'll go for a different liverly ala the surfliner which is blue and silver.

Yes, I know the USA doesn't have Shinkansen. But the actual units which are being built also have that blue/yellow livery.

Anonymous

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Anonymous Sun 19 Jul 2015 07:02:15 No.849886 Report Delete

Quoted By: >>849890 >>849915 >>850173 >>850193

Why doesn't anyone ever care about Japanese freight trains?

Anonymous

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Anonymous Sun 19 Jul 2015 07:06:35 No.849890 Report Delete

Quoted By: >>850193

>>849886
They look kinda ugly but Choo Choo Mother Fucker.

Latios !!d1SMd2T44aD

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Latios !!d1SMd2T44aD Sun 19 Jul 2015 07:56:48 No.849915 Report Delete

Quoted By: >>850082 >>850173

>>849886
The same reason I don't care about freight in general I guess? Given the diversity in the passenger arena, I generally consider freight to be somewhat dull regardless of country

Although the notion of an EF200 with its beefy bara pantographs, the EMU freighters or JR East livery EF510 running freight does have my reservations

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Anonymous Sun 19 Jul 2015 13:12:23 No.850075 Report Delete

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>>835520
fag

Anonymous

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Anonymous Sun 19 Jul 2015 13:45:10 No.850082 Report Delete

Quoted By: >>850193

>>849915

>freight
>dull
>implying

I joke, that's a perfectly reasonable position to have. I'm going to leave this here though.

Anonymous

Anonymous Sun 19 Jul 2015 17:01:37 No.850173 Report Delete

Quoted By: >>850193

>>849886
>>849915
They're not ugly at all. Also, is that a freight multiple unit?

Anonymous

Anonymous Sun 19 Jul 2015 17:28:33 No.850193 Report Delete

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>>850082

To be fair, North American freight trains is more exciting than Japanese freight trains due to the sheer length involved

>>850173

The one seen in >>849890 is the M250 freight EMU, the one in >>849886 is just a slightly longer locomotive

Anonymous

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Anonymous Mon 20 Jul 2015 18:55:23 No.850806 Report Delete

Quoted By: >>868741

Youtube seems to be popular with japanese railfans.

This channel has great videos some of which are subbed.
https://www.youtube.com/user/RailKingJP/

All 5 hours of a nozomi train from Hakata to Tokyo in glorious 1080p 60fps https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RpXO8MIX8xI

some more 60fps videos.:
https://www.youtube.com/user/korekitadotyuu/videos

Anyone have any more?

Anonymous

Anonymous Mon 20 Jul 2015 22:26:35 No.850969 Report Delete

Quoted By: >>850970

While not 60fps, but this is something equally long (ish). A cab view of the Ltd. Express Shinano #9 from Osaka to Nagano, which is now Japan's longest running daytime limited express train by distance at 441.2 km after the end of the JR East/West's Limited Express Hakucho (from Osaka to Aomori at 1052.9 km) in 2001.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tBIPOwvq-t4

Use term 前面展望 and whatever train you want in Japanese to see if you can find any cab view videos

Anonymous

Anonymous Mon 20 Jul 2015 22:28:34 No.850970 Report Delete

Quoted By: >>852007

>>850969
Cab view is always interesting but it is at the same time boring to watch compared to being there experiencing it first hand.

Anonymous

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Anonymous Wed 22 Jul 2015 14:49:29 No.851911 Report Delete

Quoted By: >>852007

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Anonymous Wed 22 Jul 2015 17:45:24 No.852007 Report Delete

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>>850970

Better start learning how to visually and verbally confirm signals and signs

>>851911

Not as fancy as the wrapped cars, but still interesting nonetheless

Anonymous

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Anonymous Wed 22 Jul 2015 19:46:51 No.852050 Report Delete

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Anonymous Wed 22 Jul 2015 20:27:49 No.852070 Report Delete

Quoted By: >>852261

>>852050

>The station is the same as the picture in the OP

I sometimes have to wonder what's the point of streaming the platforms of a rather "remote" train station

Anonymous

Anonymous Thu 23 Jul 2015 02:50:58 No.852261 Report Delete

Quoted By: >>854527

>>852070
This one is nice because it's more up close and personal than all the other Japanese train station webcams I've seen.

Anonymous

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Anonymous Fri 24 Jul 2015 08:11:16 No.852845 Report Delete

Quoted By: >>852929 >>853044 >>855548

WTF

Anonymous

Anonymous Fri 24 Jul 2015 13:30:02 No.852929 Report Delete

Quoted By:

>>852845
now that thing is cool

Anonymous

Anonymous Fri 24 Jul 2015 19:50:52 No.853044 Report Delete

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>>852845

It's one of the four GeGeGe Kitaro "Wrapping Trains" serving the Sakai Line in the San'in area

https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E5%A2%83%E7%B7%9A

Anonymous

Anonymous Mon 27 Jul 2015 13:25:31 No.854527 Report Delete

Quoted By: >>855668

>>852261

Also it was available back in the late 90's because the prefecture blew it's entire education budget to build the University of Aizu, a computer hardware and software school. so a huge ass fiber optic backbone line got built and the relatively rural area got stupid fat broadband. Grandpa Sato was getting 100Mbps FTTH when 10Mbps was still a thing.

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Anonymous Tue 28 Jul 2015 19:57:46 No.855322 Report Delete

Quoted By:

>>844917
Go away Polan. Nobody of like you

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Anonymous Wed 29 Jul 2015 07:57:03 No.855548 Report Delete

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>>852845
Spooky.

Anonymous

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Anonymous Wed 29 Jul 2015 08:07:06 No.855555 Report Delete

Quoted By: >>855559

A modern train pretending to be old

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Anonymous Wed 29 Jul 2015 08:08:17 No.855559 Report Delete

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>>855555
Nice train quints, dude.

Anonymous

Anonymous Wed 29 Jul 2015 08:26:30 No.855566 Report Delete

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>>844917
pesant link
windows don't even line up

Anonymous

Anonymous Wed 29 Jul 2015 15:09:32 No.855668 Report Delete

Quoted By: >>855834 >>857578

>>854527

Any webcam pics from back then?

Anonymous

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Anonymous Wed 29 Jul 2015 21:45:28 No.855834 Report Delete

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>>855668

It'd probably be more grainy and with older trains instead

Anonymous

Anonymous Wed 29 Jul 2015 22:15:51 No.855848 Report Delete

Quoted By: >>855888

I love seeing the Aizu cam in winter, they get intense blizzards and all the qt schoolgirls running about with scarves and jackets all over the shop

Anonymous

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Anonymous Wed 29 Jul 2015 23:52:17 No.855888 Report Delete

Quoted By: >>855899

>>855848
...a-and tights, too?

Anonymous

Anonymous Thu 30 Jul 2015 00:25:50 No.855899 Report Delete

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>>855888
Yes

Though I wonder what happens to the girls in Hokkaido where the temperatures can hit -20 on the reg

Anonymous

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Anonymous Thu 30 Jul 2015 17:28:31 No.856221 Report Delete

Quoted By: >>856228 >>856229 >>856554 >>857275 >>857306 >>886748

>>856188
>Train
>Wheels with tyres
What?

Anonymous

Anonymous Thu 30 Jul 2015 17:40:57 No.856228 Report Delete

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>>856221

It is basically an automated guideway transit system used for the Yurkamome line in Tokyo Bay, and since Japanese people called them "Densha" (train) I'd assume he posted it for that reason

Anonymous

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Anonymous Thu 30 Jul 2015 17:42:05 No.856229 Report Delete

Quoted By: >>856243

>>856221
Ayyy

Anonymous

Anonymous Thu 30 Jul 2015 18:11:11 No.856243 Report Delete

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>>856229
More like a giant slot car. I want one.

Gears !MT5GearsOc

Gears !MT5GearsOc Fri 31 Jul 2015 12:48:18 No.856554 Report Delete

Quoted By: >>857307

>>856221
Worse efficiency, but much less noise and vibration for surrounding area.

Anonymous

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Anonymous Sat 01 Aug 2015 22:48:29 No.857207 Report Delete

Quoted By: >>857277 >>857897

The first prototype of the new JR E353 EMU is now seen in the wild, as more are built they will be replacing the E351 EMUs for the Super Azusa Ltd. Express service starting in 2016. Not sure what will happen with the E351s though after "only" 22 years of service

Anonymous

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Anonymous Sun 02 Aug 2015 00:47:44 No.857275 Report Delete

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>>856221

Latios !!d1SMd2T44aD

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Latios !!d1SMd2T44aD Sun 02 Aug 2015 00:58:43 No.857277 Report Delete

Quoted By: >>857581 >>863323

>>857207
eh, it looks a little less alien than the earlier concept. I kinda wanted it to look a little more out of this world though

Anonymous

Anonymous Sun 02 Aug 2015 02:55:50 No.857306 Report Delete

Quoted By:

>>856221
Its French, they have a weird limbo where the rubber/tire industry is powerful - but the rest of the auto industry is not
So they have no problem implementing public transit, except some of it has rubber tires

Anonymous

Anonymous Sun 02 Aug 2015 02:56:50 No.857307 Report Delete

Quoted By: >>857584

>>856554
>less noise and vibration
if the railway is built well it wont

Anonymous

Anonymous Sun 02 Aug 2015 17:38:48 No.857578 Report Delete

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>>855668

Shit was realplayer way back when. Hell, the place where the camera is now is a level pedestrian walkway over to track 2 and 3, but just before the webcam got placed, it used to be through track beyond for a train length or two.

Anonymous

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Anonymous Sun 02 Aug 2015 17:43:05 No.857581 Report Delete

Quoted By: >>857611

>>857277

Anonymous

Anonymous Sun 02 Aug 2015 17:45:48 No.857584 Report Delete

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>>857307
Perhaps up to 100mph but higher speeds give vibration and noise no matter how good the track condition.

Anonymous

Anonymous Sun 02 Aug 2015 19:02:31 No.857611 Report Delete

Quoted By: >>857615

>>857581
Though unlike their nip counterparts, the doors are no longer used.

Anonymous

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Anonymous Sun 02 Aug 2015 19:15:35 No.857615 Report Delete

Quoted By: >>884178

To commemorate the 40th Anniversary of the completion of Sanyo Shinkansen and the 20th Anniversary of EVA broadcasting on TV, JR West will have a (well, at least one anyway) 500 Series Shinkansen set redecorated into an Evangelion themed "500 Type EVA" to run from Fall 2015 to Spring 2017 with the collaboration of Hideki Anno and Yamashita Ikuto. [lolnospoiler]Gee, what could possibly go wrong?[/lolnospoiler]

http://www.500type-eva.jp/

>>857611

Back in the 60s/70s, JNR had quite a few of Ltd. Express EMUs actually had retractable gangways + covers. However, latter versions of those same EMUs no longer has them and some of the earlier versions even had them removed. Pic related is a JNR mid-production type 489 Series EMU that had its retractable gangway sealed

Anonymous

Anonymous Mon 03 Aug 2015 09:51:03 No.857897 Report Delete

Quoted By: >>857900 >>857901 >>858284

>>857207
>>857207
What are the tumors on top for? Are there sunroofs on every carriage?

That seems unlikely given that Japanese railway companies have never been about having luxurious interiors and all that.

Anonymous

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Anonymous Mon 03 Aug 2015 10:18:43 No.857900 Report Delete

Quoted By: >>857905

>>857897
Lots of Japanese made trains are like that, with external stuff botched onto the roof. I noticed it on their export 395s. Seems like it's just the jap style for trains.

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Anonymous Mon 03 Aug 2015 10:20:01 No.857901 Report Delete

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>>857897 What are the tumors on top for?

Those tumors are the only thing keeping us peon commuters being crushed like sardines in a can alive in the death heat of Tokyo summertime. More accurately, they seem to believe fairing the air conditioner unit ends with roof fairings, but otherwise keeping the existing rectangular-ish air conditioner unit design would create low pressure regions over the center of the aircon unit, providing added draft to the heat exchanger radiator fan, Which sorta makes sense, but I'd rather they simply do a continuous roofline like the green car doublestacks with two aircon units, because what the interior needs more of is not not raw cooling power (which it already has enough of) but more internal air movement fan power in the interior, which can only reasonably be accommodated by adding additional internal fans, which might fit into that added roof space. Heck, putting in some kind of air dam system to flush cold air down from above an open door would do wonders..

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RedditPowerUser !Wb0VYQHX5M Mon 03 Aug 2015 10:45:13 No.857905 Report Delete

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>>857900

I love the Javelins, I quite regularly go for days out in Canterbury just so I can ride them and go past the depot.

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Anonymous Mon 03 Aug 2015 10:56:25 No.857912 Report Delete

Quoted By: >>858010

>>857901
Are you sure those tumors are AC? Last time I checked they are always rectangular boxes on top of trains.

Those ones seemed curved, which is why I asked.

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My favorite.

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Anonymous Mon 03 Aug 2015 16:35:22 No.858010 Report Delete

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>>857912

It is probably designed that way due to aerodynamics

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Latios !!d1SMd2T44aD Tue 04 Aug 2015 05:10:14 No.858284 Report Delete

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>>857897
Standard practice in Japan on most trains is to have everything traction/computer related under the floor and the aircon up top. The reasoning is to keep the centre of mass as low as possible for stability (although the aircon unit is heavy enough that JR East papers have noted that it can make a difference in running but it's no big deal)
The exceptions being modern Shinkansen and some older limited express trains, especially tilting ones which have the aircon under the floor

Easier maintenance. You just undo the mountings and lift it off

>>857901
Hankyu puts some effort into hiding them behind fairings. But the thing about places beyond Tokyo is that they usually don't have Linedeliers (that big vent in the middle which blows air down more directly. Although I'm also aware of some newer Tokyo Metro trains like the 10000 not having them either). However, the heat distribution may be more even as most west of Tokyo seem to prefer having 2 smaller aircon units rather than a single big one. But then Linedeliers seem to be more common on newer commuter trains in West Japan now anyway.

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Anonymous Tue 04 Aug 2015 11:08:23 No.858358 Report Delete

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>>858284

THe Linedeliers are okay if you are near the output tube from an aircon, but on the face of it it's just a rotary barrel fan with oscillating guide vanes, if you aren't near a cool spot it doesn't help as much. They really need to but two rows near the curved space above the luggage racks rather than a single center line. The human body heat of the smooshed commuters around me is painful, especially all the salarymen in their suits, because that's contact conducting the heat.

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Anonymous Wed 05 Aug 2015 15:31:05 No.858920 Report Delete

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>>827208

>Realizes that I didn't answer your question about EMU to DMU ratios completely

If you love digging through data and stuff, Japan Railfan Magazine (a Japanese monthly publication of railway news, data, and what not) has an annual extra publication in the July issue that lists out detailed rolling stock inventory for the JR group of companies. If you can read Moon you can probably figure out the ratios from the data, but my initial answer on that EMU outnumbers DMU (besides Hokkaido and Shikoku) still stands

With the Hokkaido Shinkansen's opening inching ever close, JR Hokkaido decides to start selling H5 series related goods. [lolnospoiler]The H5 USB stick is neat, but not 2,500 Yen + tax neat when it only has 4GB of storage[/lolnospoiler]

http://www.jrhokkaido.co.jp/press/2015/150803-3.pdf

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Anonymous Fri 07 Aug 2015 16:16:29 No.859778 Report Delete

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>>823724
They sometimes donate the old coaches to south east asian countries (Malaysia, indonesia and the philippines)

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Anonymous Fri 07 Aug 2015 16:37:21 No.859787 Report Delete

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>>859778

And both JR East and JR Central are in the process of donating some of its KiHa 11 (JR Central) and KiHa 40 (both) series DMUs to Myanmar starting this year.

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Anonymous Sun 09 Aug 2015 14:21:21 No.860589 Report Delete

Quoted By:

>>825753
tram and metro or any kind of hybrid of those

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Anonymous Mon 10 Aug 2015 12:02:49 No.861025 Report Delete

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>>841372

And they might finally scrap it after it was taken out of service around 6 months ago

http://railf.jp/news/2015/08/10/100000.html

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Anonymous Wed 12 Aug 2015 19:05:01 No.862257 Report Delete

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>>862255

>Shanghai Metro
>None of their rolling stock are Japanese made
>Fans were crazy enough that they had to "cool their head a little" by others

I'll have to give them that their Love Live! wrapping train is better than the ones on the Yamanote Line in 2013

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Anonymous Sat 15 Aug 2015 00:41:40 No.863323 Report Delete

Quoted By:

>>857277

Well, the earlier concept looks a bit more rounded than the final product. Here's some shots of the interior

http://response.jp/article/2015/08/07/257439.html

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Anonymous Sat 15 Aug 2015 18:21:59 No.863574 Report Delete

Quoted By: >>863616 >>863716

So I've noticed at some of these trains stations there's a high and low tone constantly in the background. What does it mean?

Examples:
https://youtu.be/Q9prcYdrCOc?t=52
https://youtu.be/3UgCpNFLMMg?t=22

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Anonymous Sat 15 Aug 2015 19:33:34 No.863616 Report Delete

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>>863574

Probably sound of the gates accepting tickets / passcards when the passenger enters/exits the paid fare areas

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Latios !!d1SMd2T44aD Sat 15 Aug 2015 23:05:34 No.863716 Report Delete

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>>863574
The slow tone is probably to guide blind people around or something. Similar to the sound of birds at some staircases at stations (although I bet it's also a suicide deterrent) and at Queensland Rail stations the beeping

The ticket gate sound is faster and indicates an error, be it an invalid card/ticket or trying to walk through without a ticket
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qBCS51EOuxM

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Anonymous Sat 15 Aug 2015 23:49:23 No.863733 Report Delete

Quoted By: >>863741

>2015
>Only starting to accept IC and credit cards for on-train purchases

ISHYGDDT Japan [lolnospoiler] I know that Japan is not that reliant on credit cards, but I would've expect they accept payment through IC cards before this year [/lolnospoiler]

http://response.jp/article/2015/08/14/257863.html

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Latios !!d1SMd2T44aD Sat 15 Aug 2015 23:58:04 No.863741 Report Delete

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>>863733
JR East has been doing it for quite a while
One of the first things I did with a Suica was trying to buy something on the train with it (in this case a katsu sammich)
The sammich was very good

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Anonymous Sun 16 Aug 2015 00:02:14 No.863742 Report Delete

Quoted By: >>863746

>>863741

>JR East started it first
>The rest are only catching up

Should I have expected this?

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Anonymous Sun 16 Aug 2015 00:04:23 No.863744 Report Delete

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>>863741
Izzat the Narita Express?

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Latios !!d1SMd2T44aD Sun 16 Aug 2015 00:09:44 No.863746 Report Delete

Quoted By: >>863751

>>863744
Yes it is (or was, it's been almost 2 years now and I lack the time and spare $ to go back on a whim)

>>863742
I think JR Central/West did the "use IC card on Shinkasen" thing first with EX-IC though. Although it required stacking 2 cards on top of each other until JR East told them they could do it in the 1 card

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Anonymous Sun 16 Aug 2015 00:35:45 No.863751 Report Delete

Quoted By: >>863759

>>863746
Which station?

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Latios !!d1SMd2T44aD Sun 16 Aug 2015 00:54:20 No.863759 Report Delete

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>>863751
Narita T2
The last thing I remember was watching the normal train miss the mark and triggering my OCD
Especially when others have seen perfect stops
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cZwcv7TLZho

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Anonymous Tue 18 Aug 2015 00:40:05 No.864692 Report Delete

Quoted By: >>864693 >>864868

Hey nerds, identify this train.

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Anonymous Tue 18 Aug 2015 00:42:35 No.864693 Report Delete

Quoted By: >>864718 >>864868

>>864692

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Anonymous Tue 18 Aug 2015 04:09:43 No.864718 Report Delete

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>>864693
it's the tsundere kunichiwa arigato mark II

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Anonymous Tue 18 Aug 2015 12:14:55 No.864868 Report Delete

Quoted By: >>865076

>>864692
>>864693
Which city?
Which line?
Picture from outside the train?

Next time, be polite when you ask a favor.

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Anonymous Tue 18 Aug 2015 20:13:06 No.865076 Report Delete

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>>864868
Don't know which line, but it goes between Kobe and Osaka. I'm pretty sure it's a non-JR line company.

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Latios !!d1SMd2T44aD Tue 18 Aug 2015 21:36:16 No.865124 Report Delete

Quoted By: >>865220 >>868302

Something that ghetto probably means it's a Hanshin
And some googling says that destination knob is somewhat characteristic to them

Probably a 5000 or jet car - known for its relatively high acceleration as it had to run all stops
Aircon and interior colouring checks out

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Anonymous Wed 19 Aug 2015 03:00:51 No.865220 Report Delete

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>>865124
That's it! I rode that train on the suggestion of google maps on my way to Osaka. Will post some related pics from that trip.

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Anonymous Wed 19 Aug 2015 03:23:36 No.865225 Report Delete

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>>865220
And the maglev itself.

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Anonymous Thu 20 Aug 2015 00:25:14 No.865662 Report Delete

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Anonymous Fri 21 Aug 2015 22:47:47 No.866470 Report Delete

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>>865662

>Physical dimension that small
>Almost 2MB in size

ISHYGDDT Japan

On the strange topic of customized trains, JR Kyushu converted 2 older KiHa 47 series DMU into "ARU Ressha" (ARU is actually an acronym for Amazing, Royal, and Universal), which runs 2 2-hour one way trips in certain days, food and drinks are provided on board. It costs quite a bit though at 20,000+ Yen per person

http://www.jrkyushu-aruressha.jp/en/

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Latios !!d1SMd2T44aD Sat 22 Aug 2015 00:56:41 No.866518 Report Delete

Quoted By: >>866856

>>866470
Looks like a Hisatsu Orange competitor. Similar price point too

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Anonymous Sun 23 Aug 2015 00:24:50 No.866856 Report Delete

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>>866518

Design wise it is definitely more elaborate compared to the Orange Resturant

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Anonymous Mon 24 Aug 2015 08:17:39 No.867464 Report Delete

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>>865662
Its so strange, creative, and awesome that Kyoto uses their own anime characters in the ad campaign.

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Anonymous Mon 24 Aug 2015 23:26:23 No.867816 Report Delete

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With the Hokutosei just finished its last run and the end for Casseopia and Hanamasu are probably not far behind (when the Hokkaido Shinkansen finally opens), would it basically means the end of regular overnight train services besides Sunrise Seto/Izumo?

http://response.jp/article/2015/08/23/258464.html

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Anonymous Tue 25 Aug 2015 02:40:35 No.867873 Report Delete

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>>848880
The Velaro looks better IMO. The 700 series is too feminine.

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Anonymous Tue 25 Aug 2015 02:57:37 No.867878 Report Delete

Quoted By: >>867920

>>856188
This thing is super expensive. It's like 400+ yen for a 3 km ride.

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Latios !!d1SMd2T44aD Tue 25 Aug 2015 06:43:09 No.867920 Report Delete

Quoted By: >>868302 >>886748

>>867878
Hmm?
http://www.yurikamome.tokyo/fare_ticket/fare/

Although noting fares in general. It is somewhat amusing how the change in tax fucked the ticket prices to the point where in some cases tickets are cheaper than using an IC card since it'd be rude to set paper ticket prices down to the yen
And government/small systems tend to be more pricey. Chiba monorail is more expensive

In the meantime, a steam loco running alongside an E3 Shinkansen. All the Yamagata ones are 2000s era and IGBT driven so they've still got some years left but I wonder what their replacement would be (Toreiyu foot spa train aside)

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Anonymous Tue 25 Aug 2015 21:56:40 No.868302 Report Delete

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>>865124

>Hanshin 5000s

And speaking of which, Hanshin is now introducing the 5700 series to gradually replace them starting next year

http://railf.jp/news/2015/08/25/180000.html

>>867920

It'll probably take quite a while for them to replace the E3s since the E3-2000s are less than 10 years old (built in late 2000s to replace the 400 Series) and the remaining 3 sets of E3-1000s are new enough (the first two sets built from the late 90s were scrapped recently)

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Anonymous Wed 26 Aug 2015 15:03:29 No.868741 Report Delete

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>>850806
There is still her: https://www.youtube.com/user/suzukawaayako

But ever since she bred her offspawn last year the train videos became scarce. You might want to look further down her history of videos.

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Anonymous Sat 29 Aug 2015 01:11:23 No.870321 Report Delete

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>>868741

>Her videos consist of real trains, her son Hitachi (I'd hope she didn't name him after the train service), travel, toys, toku, and food

Neat.jpg

And now time for more "fancy trains converted from older train sets", this time it is JR West's turn with the Hanayome no Ren (lit. Bride's Love) converted from 2 KiHa 48 DMUs. It will run between Kanazawa and Wakura-Onsen and service will begin October 3rd.

http://response.jp/article/2015/08/21/258379.html

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Anonymous Sat 29 Aug 2015 16:59:25 No.870554 Report Delete

Quoted By: >>870582

It's rather confusing that the word "line" is used to describe physical railway lines, sections of those lines, and train services.

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Anonymous Sat 29 Aug 2015 18:47:00 No.870582 Report Delete

Quoted By: >>871110

>>870554
For example see:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/T%C5%8Dhoku_Main_Line
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Utsunomiya_Line
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sh%C5%8Dnan-Shinjuku_Line

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Anonymous Sun 30 Aug 2015 19:40:47 No.871110 Report Delete

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>>870582

Well, using "line" to describe sections and train services in addition to physical lines didn't really start until the privatization of JNR began and even then there are only three of them that are prominent (Utsunomiya, JR Kyoto, and JR Kobe lines). And for the Shonan-Shinjuku and Ueno-Tokyo Lines, the word Line is actually written in katakana instead of kanji since those are services that run through multiple lines

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Anonymous Tue 01 Sep 2015 18:06:50 No.872060 Report Delete

Quoted By: >>872251

>Thread "dying"

Welp, time for the "God of Death" (for densha-otas in Japan) to make its appearence. This is JR East's EF64-1031 DC locomotive, which is stationed in Nagaoka Rolling Stock Center along iwth -1030 and -1032. They are equiped with special couplers to transport EMUs, which they either newly manufactured EMUs from J-TREC's Niitsu factory near Niigata to Tokyo area or transport old EMUs from Tokyo area to the Nagano Rolling Stock Center to either be modified or scrapped (which is where the nickname comes from).

Pic related as it is seen transported the one-off E331 EMU from Keiyo RSC to Nagano RSC for scrapping

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Latios !!d1SMd2T44aD Wed 02 Sep 2015 07:56:34 No.872251 Report Delete

Quoted By: >>872479 >>886748

>>872060
Well, the thread has been up for 3 months with a steady stream of replies

Impatiently waiting the day an N700 successor appears. It's been 8 years but the N700A means it's probably been pushed back at least another 5 years so we won't see anything until 2020 or later I guess

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Anonymous Thu 03 Sep 2015 00:20:12 No.872479 Report Delete

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>>872251

>Steady stream of replies

More like just me, you, and random assortment of denize/n/s

Considering the speed limit for the Tokaido Shinkansen will probably stay at 285 km/h due to all the curves and noise concerns unless the government somehow let them run at 300 km/h, can they really make it even more aerodynamic without sacrificing capacity? (Which basically became standardized starting from the 300 Series with 1323 seats)

[lolnospoiler]More importantly they are basically running out of 3-digit numbers already since 9XX are reserved for experimental sets, so the next mass produced sets will probably have to be called C1/W1 or something[/lolnospoiler]

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Anonymous Thu 03 Sep 2015 02:03:59 No.872512 Report Delete

Quoted By: >>872622

Marunouchi Line?

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Latios !!d1SMd2T44aD Thu 03 Sep 2015 08:32:19 No.872622 Report Delete

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>>872512
Looks like a Tobu 30000 so it could be any of the Tobu Lines or the Tokyu DT. Not the Hanzomon though because that one is fully underground

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Anonymous Thu 03 Sep 2015 09:27:22 No.872635 Report Delete

Quoted By: >>872639

>Thread is 102 days old
Is that a 4chan record?

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Anonymous Thu 03 Sep 2015 09:37:01 No.872639 Report Delete

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>>872635
No, please go back to /o/

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Anonymous Thu 03 Sep 2015 22:06:38 No.872851 Report Delete

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With the end of the Hokutosei service and the cars being used are either being sold or scrapped, this basically marked the end of the era of Blue Trains after it first began service 58 years with the Asakaze (Tokyo ~ Hakata). Pic related as a JR East EF64 locomotive is towing some of the cars to the Nagano RSC (probably scrapped)

http://railf.jp/news/2015/09/03/130000.html

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Anonymous Tue 08 Sep 2015 00:42:29 No.874347 Report Delete

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Go to /r/, bring something back.

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Anonymous Thu 10 Sep 2015 01:31:09 No.875163 Report Delete

Quoted By: >>876113

So apparently there's a 3DS simulator game of this line. http://www.sonicpowered.co.jp/world/etn-kyoto/

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Anonymous Sat 12 Sep 2015 06:38:44 No.876113 Report Delete

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>>875163
I used to use that all the time to go to the Onsen in Kurama when I lived in Kyoto

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Anonymous Sat 12 Sep 2015 13:25:35 No.876212 Report Delete

Quoted By: >>876837

any vids on teh osaka kintetsu line? I took that thing almost daily when I was studying at Osaka Kyoiku Daigaku.

The only thing I could possibly miss more than the arcades in Japan were the damn trains.

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Anonymous Sun 13 Sep 2015 12:45:55 No.876837 Report Delete

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>>876212

You can always search videos on youtube using 近鉄大阪線 and see what you can find, although you will have to ignore the ones with 近鉄南大阪線

On the topic of Farewell / Last Run events (since the Japanese loves these), JR Kyushu will have events to send off its last 485 Series Express EMU set (Do32) from the JNR Era. With the presumed scrapping of that set after October 18th (the actual Last Run event), it'd leave JR East as the only operator of the "Rice Cooker" 485s from the JNR Era

http://www.jrkyushu.co.jp/ooita/485/index.html

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Anonymous Sun 13 Sep 2015 14:47:51 No.876899 Report Delete

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>>825573
That's not a japanese train

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Anonymous Sun 13 Sep 2015 17:05:59 No.876995 Report Delete

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>>876899
but this is

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Anonymous Wed 16 Sep 2015 14:20:02 No.878312 Report Delete

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>>876995

>Reads about its predecessor from Boeing and how terrible it was before MBTA had to replace them with Kinki Sharyo LRV 7s in the mid 80s because they were terrible in every imaginable way

topkek.jpg

For the three people who are still reading this thread, East JR / JR Hokkaido are beginning to finalize the service details for the Hokkaido Shinkansen. Service officially begins on March 26th, 2016 and there will be 13 regular round trips from Shin-Hakodate Hokuto as follows

Tokyo: 10 Hayabusa Round Trips
Sendai: 1 Hayabusa Round Trip
Morioka: 1 Hayate Round Trip
Shin-Aomori: 1 Hayate Round Trip

For the new terminus at Shin-Hakodate Hokuto, all 12 (Super) Hokuto round trip services between Hakodate and Sapporo will stop at the new station and the dia will be tweaked for interchaging with the new Shinkansen service. The Hakodate Liner will also begin with 16 round trips between Shin-Hakodate Hokuto and Hakodate as a shuttle service.

Naturally with the new Shinkansen service, this means the (Super) Hakucho, Hanamasu, and Cassiopeia will officially cease services on March 21st, 2016 as JR Hokkaido will have to finalize the switch from ATC-L to DS-ATC in the Seikan Tunnel from the 22nd to 25th.

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Anonymous Sun 20 Sep 2015 17:14:08 No.880234 Report Delete

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Seibu Railways have decided to have multiple events that incorporate beer and trains, what could possibly go wrong? (This isn't a new thing) The following PDFs are in Moon, so here are the basic gists of them:

Event 1: Mystery Beer Train with Kirin Beer

From October 1st to 4th, some of the 4-car 2000 series EMUs will be decorated into what essentially to be a "bar train" to run in three different routes for 2 hours. Here are some of the things of note

- The EMUs themselves have no washrooms since they are commuter trains
- Since it is a "Mystery Train", it won't be announced when it is running (people might still catch a glimpse when it goes past though)
- All you can drink Kirin beer for 2 hours and food will be provided
- Tickets are only available for 2 or 3 persons, so no you can't go alone

http://www.seibu-group.co.jp/railways/news/news-release/2015/__icsFiles/afieldfile/2015/09/07/20150907beer.pdf

Event 2: Midnight Express Tour with Yebisu (Sapporo) Beer

On November 6th and 28th, there are two seperate tours that departing from Seibu Ikebukuro to Seibu Chichbu in midnight to visit the Mitsumine Shrine to view the sea of clouds during sunrise, and there are three different tours after sunrise. You only get 1 hour of all you can drink beer though

http://www.seibu-group.co.jp/railways/news/news-release/2015/__icsFiles/afieldfile/2015/09/16/20150916unkai2.pdf

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Anonymous Thu 24 Sep 2015 20:23:38 No.881810 Report Delete

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>>878312
I liked those bright green trains. Any idea what they will use for the Hakodate Liner?

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Anonymous Thu 24 Sep 2015 23:11:50 No.881885 Report Delete

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>>881810

According to JR Hokkaido they are building 4 733-1000 Series EMUs to provide the Liner service, which also means the lines between the stations will be electrified. As far as the 789 Series EMU goes they will replace 27 out of 37 785 Series EMU for the Sapporo area. The PDF they published indicates that they are replacing quite a lot of things in the near future

http://www.jrhokkaido.co.jp/press/2015/150320-1.pdf

- KiHa 183-0 Series DMUs from the JNR Era are being phased out and replaced by additional KiHa 261 Series DMUs
- Designing new local use DMUs to replace KiHa 40 Series DMUs from the JNR Era
- Replacing the rest of the KiHa 183 Series DMU, 281 Series DMU, and 283 Series DMU (Since the development of the new KiHa 285 Series was canned, they might just standardize and build more KiHa 261s)
- The above point for the 789 Series EMU
- Replacing older 721 Series EMUs from the late 1980s

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Anonymous Wed 30 Sep 2015 18:01:41 No.884178 Report Delete

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Well, looks like EVA Rebuild 3.0+1.0 won't be finished any time soon (see >>857615 for details)

http://news.mynavi.jp/news/2015/09/30/377/

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Anonymous Mon 05 Oct 2015 03:43:28 No.885777 Report Delete

Quoted By: >>886005 >>886034 >>886052

I kind of like these tbh.

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Anonymous Mon 05 Oct 2015 23:45:19 No.886005 Report Delete

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>>885777
Livery is nice but front is pretty ugly

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Anonymous Tue 06 Oct 2015 02:51:28 No.886034 Report Delete

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>>885777
I love it

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Anonymous Tue 06 Oct 2015 02:53:58 No.886035 Report Delete

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>>886034
m-more like this p-please

Latios !!d1SMd2T44aD

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Latios !!d1SMd2T44aD Tue 06 Oct 2015 05:56:25 No.886052 Report Delete

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>>885777
It's because it's a door that slides open to allow you to walk through a 6+6 car train

Also
>777

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Anonymous Thu 08 Oct 2015 11:49:46 No.886748 Report Delete

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>>867920
Isn't the IC card discount only a thing in the Kanto area though? Here around Osaka/Kyoto I don't get any discount for using ICOCA or PiTaPa.

>>856221
Very common for metro systems made by Frenchies. That is not the case for the Yurikamome in Japan however.

Check out this wiki article:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rubber-tyred_metro

there are some pretty slick things that can be done with rubber tyred metros, the Lausanne 2 line being the best example.

and check out a video from the Yurikamome line to get a feel for riding the train:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9XHcfR4swnk

>>859708
that's not a train though, that's a goddamn magnet.

>>866470
Jesus H Christ that looks like a train a rapper would put in a MV.

>>872251
I miss the variety of trains you could find on the Tokaido line. Now its basically all N700s. I still remember riding the 300 and 500 series like it was yesterday.

>>876837
Did anyone say rice cookers?

http://matome.naver.jp/odai/2140961227920181001

Unfortunately these are just photoshop creations.

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Anonymous Thu 08 Oct 2015 12:27:24 No.886757 Report Delete

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>>886052
>6+6 car train
kek
Glorious Nippon has 6+6 car trains, we have 3+3 car trains. Which means that sometimes you can see 3 car trains on heavy mainline railways.
>mfw our train system/culture is one of the worst in EU

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Anonymous Thu 08 Oct 2015 20:28:29 No.886916 Report Delete

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>>886757

>He thinks 6+6 cars in Japan is long

Try 10+7 cars for the Tohoku+Akita Shinkansen or the 8+8 cars MAX Toki/Tanigawa for the Joetsu Shinkansen for 400+ meters of Shinkansen glory (and let's not forget that the full sets for Tokaido and Sanyo Shinkansen are 16 cars)

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Anonymous Thu 08 Oct 2015 23:04:46 No.886985 Report Delete

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>>886916
That chromatic abberation all over the picture is triggering me.

Go to lightroom, lens correction, check "remove chromatic abberation"

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Anonymous Thu 08 Oct 2015 23:12:53 No.886991 Report Delete

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>>886985
I ain't doing that for your autism

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Anonymous Thu 08 Oct 2015 23:23:38 No.886998 Report Delete

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>>886757
12 car trains? try 30, this is the norm in Japan.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pez8fQsVZIo

Nah, I kid. This was special and they basically towed one of the E217 sets with another 15 car E217, which made it 30 car long and at 700+ meters long would make it by far the longest passenger train in Japan. The longest trains in japan are usually the shinkansens on the Tokaido line which have 16 cars and are around 400 meters long. Keep in mind that the length of shinkansen cars is significantly longer than regular commuter train cars.

So the regular 20m cars on the commuter trains make them around 300 m long if they have 15 cars (the norm for many feeder lines in the Tokyo area.)

As far as I know the Tokyo area is the only one with commuter trains that have that many cars. I think the max around the Kansai (Osaka) area is 12 cars.

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Anonymous Thu 08 Oct 2015 23:28:38 No.886999 Report Delete

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Done, all that nastygren tinge all over the vertical and horizontal lines is gone.

I had to tweak the saturation quite a bit though.

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Anonymous Thu 08 Oct 2015 23:31:21 No.887000 Report Delete

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>>886998
Reminds me of this 23 car in the UK. One set failed so they rescued it with another set.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jta4c9FMmCA

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Latios !!d1SMd2T44aD Fri 09 Oct 2015 03:22:06 No.887038 Report Delete

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>>886748
For the IC thing, it's mostly a rounding choice applied for paper tickets. I guess they just felt really guilty about rounding up for a few fare bands. Whereas with IC cards they can charge you exactly without issue. The main discounts would still come from using commuter passes
>why can't I hold all these 1 yen coins

The peak was in the mid 2000s I guess. Then every turned 16CARSONLY to keep the timetable table even on the Tokaido
The Sanyo at one point would've had 0/100/300/500/700/N700 all running together

I remember in late 2013 it was about half-half still and a few 700s still had the rollsigns instead of LED displays
The only one I really don't like is the JR West 700. In the Green Cars, the tray table comes out of the armrest and it's in a somewhat uncomfortable position and size. That and the footrest is so damn high (think waist height) in its folded position to be longer when lowered

The last big thing with 700s I recalled was some drama at Nagoya station on my holiday in Japan a while back. For some reason they got the trains the wrong way around so the Nozomi was a 700 while the Hikari was an N700A. You could feel the station announcer's seething rage as they were also about 2-4 minutes late in addition to the fuckup

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Anonymous Tue 13 Oct 2015 23:42:34 No.888618 Report Delete

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>>887038

>You could feel the station announcer's seething rage as they were also about 2-4 minutes late in addition to the fuckup

Now autistic of them (not that I'm surprised)

JR East's new E235 series EMU, which will be the replacement for the E231 series EMU for the Yamanote Line will officially enter service on November 30th. Not sure how long it will take for them to replace all 51 sets since they have some sort of deadline to meet by 2020 due to the Olympics

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Latios !!d1SMd2T44aD Wed 14 Oct 2015 03:33:04 No.888663 Report Delete

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>>888618
That car 10 (2nd car in pic) recycled from the E231 is really getting on my OCD now

Considering how quickly they pumped out the E233s I'd say it just depends on how busy they are building any other trains

In the meantime, they fixed up some of the lines. But I wonder if they'll ever bother fully restoring service in place of the BRT

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Anonymous Wed 14 Oct 2015 03:43:58 No.888666 Report Delete

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Have some E235:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_UGqyxo0BaY

>>887038
>2-4 minutes late

SHAMEFUL DISPLAY

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Anonymous Wed 14 Oct 2015 03:54:04 No.888669 Report Delete

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>>886034
>>886035

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Anonymous Fri 16 Oct 2015 23:08:13 No.889518 Report Delete

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>>888663

I'm pretty sure JR East will just keep the BRT in place for the sections of the Ofunato and Kesennuma Lines that were damaged during the 2011 Earthquake since it'd probably be too expensive to lay down the tracks again. The only line that they are fixing is the damaged section for the Yamada Line (paying 14 Billion out of 21 Billion Yen required to restore the line) after much complaining from the local government along with 2 rejected BRT replacement proposals

>That car 10 (2nd car in pic) recycled from the E231 is really getting on my OCD now

You can actually see the roofline of the converted car (E235-4600) being different from the newly built E235 cars, I'd hope the future production cars would have uniform rooflines

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Anonymous Sat 17 Oct 2015 00:51:46 No.889536 Report Delete

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>>889518
fuck BRT

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Latios !!d1SMd2T44aD Sat 17 Oct 2015 01:39:44 No.889542 Report Delete

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>>889536
It's probably not too bad if not for the bizarre ticketing system. Despite being a JR East product, it has its own IC card which is explicitly incompatible with Suica and everything else

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Anonymous Sat 17 Oct 2015 14:55:29 No.889675 Report Delete

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I always thought only dorks/social retards watched non kids anime In japan but If that were true wouldn't It be Illogical to have ads like the yahari monorail, as In too much money spent on something that only a "handful" of people would be Interested In?

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Anonymous Wed 21 Oct 2015 20:16:17 No.891172 Report Delete

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>>889675

It is not like wrapping trains are a new thing to advertise niche products, there were plenty of those wrapped cars or decaled cars when something needs to be promoted

And speaking of which, the work on the Shinkansen 500 Type EVA has finally finished and will begin service on November 7th until some time in Spring 2017. It will run one round trip daily between Hakata and Shin-Osaka as follows

Kodama 730: Hakata 6:32 > Shin-Osaka 11:14
Kodama 741: Shin-Osaka 11:14 > Hakata 16:07

http://news.mynavi.jp/news/2015/10/19/668/ (Pictures)
http://news.mynavi.jp/news/2015/10/21/659/ (Original goods)

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Anonymous Fri 23 Oct 2015 02:37:15 No.891611 Report Delete

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How does this commercial make you feel?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XBOkkm7_fSo

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Latios !!d1SMd2T44aD Fri 23 Oct 2015 03:44:34 No.891624 Report Delete

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>>891611
Japan before the economy imploded, the romantic era lol

On the other hand, there's also the ad campaign ahead of the Tohoku Shinkansen extension I guess
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z-TUJbvFgK4

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Anonymous Fri 23 Oct 2015 07:45:52 No.891661 Report Delete

Quoted By: >>891727 >>891864 >>893264

>>891624

>JR Tokai
>300 Series
>Before the economy imploded

I'm pretty sure that CM happened after (just to remind the Japanese people before it imploded). And speaking of JR Central, they just announced that they will build an additional 20 sets of N700A Series Shinkansen to replace the 700 Series by 2019. Along with converting the existing N700s to N700A standards, JR Central will achieve the goal of Tokaido Shinkansen will be exclusively served by N700A by 2019.

http://news.mynavi.jp/news/2015/10/22/482/

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Anonymous Fri 23 Oct 2015 10:32:42 No.891687 Report Delete

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>>886035

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Anonymous Fri 23 Oct 2015 13:21:44 No.891727 Report Delete

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>>891624
>>891661
The commercial is from 1992, it's not like the economy wasn't still strong.

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Anonymous Fri 23 Oct 2015 20:03:01 No.891864 Report Delete

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>>891661
Damn, guess we won't be seeing any new shinkansen designs for a while.

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Anonymous Wed 28 Oct 2015 11:20:37 No.893264 Report Delete

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>>891661

When are those niggers in JR Central going to put full double deck shinkansens on the tokaido line? It's packed headways now and it's always crammed whenever I ride, and it isn't even a holiday, just a normal business day. Shit just does not make sense.

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Anonymous Wed 28 Oct 2015 18:46:07 No.893352 Report Delete

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>>893264

The Chuo Maglev is supposed to alleviate the problem whenever it is supposed to open (JR Central says 2027, but let's not hold our breath)

>When are those niggers in JR Central going to put full double deck shinkansens on the tokaido line?

Aside from the above, JR Central would probably have to spend a lot of time/money to make a 16 car double-decker that would accelerate as fast as the N700, which might not worth their effort as they would have to make an E4 set that is twice as long and heavy* to accelerate 60% faster (E4's acceleration is 1.6 km/h/s and the N700 accelerates at 2.6km/h/s).

*A set of E4 is 201m long and weighs 428.0t and a 16-car set of N700 is 405m long and weighs 407t, so a 16 car double decker would probably weigh at least 800 tons

>It's packed headways now and it's always crammed whenever I ride, and it isn't even a holiday, just a normal business day. Shit just does not make sense.

The Tokaido Shinkansen is basically one of the busiest HSR corridors with at least 10 trains per hour in normal hours since it connects three major metropolitan areas (Tokyo, Nagoya, and Osaka), so there are plenty of businessmen and other people traveling between those areas with it

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Anonymous Thu 29 Oct 2015 20:40:47 No.893650 Report Delete

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Saw this the other day.

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