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Two interesting videos here, no English subtitles sadly. August 9th, 1980 at Miyazaki station. This station no longer exists; according to Japanese Wikipedia, work on grade separation of this line began in October 1988, and service on the elevated line began in March 1993. Completion of the new station is stated as October 1993. I love the palm trees outside the station; I thought Japan would have way more palm trees 🙂 Google map centered on Miyazaki station: https://www.google.com/maps/@31.9162673,131.4348502,293a,35y,257.6h,44.89t YT channel is 508-go. May 3rd, 1986 at Nishi-Kagoshima. JNR has less than one year left. This station became Kagoshima-Chuo in March 2004 with the opening of the first part of the Kyushu Shinkansen. Google map centered on station: https://www.google.com/maps/@31.5779568,130.5423553,746a,35y,39.25t YT channel is mm012.

I don't recall seeing many JR Kyushu front view videos. Here are two in the southeastern part of Kyushu. Really great scenery. JR Kyushu designates the two-car Umisachi Yamasachi as KIHA 125-400. The cars were acquired from the defunct Takachiho Railway. by 485JNR_NICHIRIN - Kagoshima-Chuo to Miyazaki on the Nippo Main Line. by Arkibk Train Aki - Nango to Miyazaki on the Nichinan Line. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Umisachi_Yamasachi https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Takachiho_Railway

My local Kumamoto hobby shop has disclosed to me that KATO intends to produce the SL Hitoyoshi (as well as SL Aso Boy while they're at it) in N gauge during 2022. I trust their word as since they're long-time KATO dealers for several decades now, and I'm a frequent customer of theirs. It makes sense considering the number of JR Kyushu trains and locomotives they've made so far, never mind the Tohoku-region (2028-1) 8620. I'm hopping we'll all see it as a Planned Product in the soon-to-be-released 2022 catalog. I really like their JR Kyushu DE10. This is the video from which I originally learned of the SL Hitoyoshi, way back before I came here. It immediately became my favorite train in Japan.

Interesting report. Of interest is page 48, which gives some reasons for punctuality: http://ec.europa.eu/transport/rail/research/doc/bob.pdf