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Wasn't there a Hakone Tozan conductor who got some fame for his singing? Fine though he may have been, this Nagoya Rinkai employee is a true artist. Ignore the computer anime girl voice in the first few minutes (worse than nails on chalkboard), you are in for a treat. This is the Showa-machi Line, which unfortunately saw its last train around 2009. Somewhere else I read that Meirin classifies their out-of-service lines as suspended, not discontinued or abandoned. I inferred that this emphasizes possible reopening. Here's hoping. This is an interesting operation which at its peak had a lot of track. I'm not sure how many customers they're switching here, but one is Toagosei, apparently the owner of Krazy Glue. Highlights: 2:15 smoking cyclist 3:30 crew observes videographer observing them 7:45 his highest artistic expression 12:35 foot brake 18:30 uyoku sound truck, of course 22:00 then and now Google Map centered on the track: https://www.google.com/maps/@35.0779122,136.8940081,245m/data=!3m1!1e3?hl=en&entry=ttu

Some scenes from last month of ex-JR Tokai kiha 11 and 40 dmu being transported to Nagoya Port for eventual disposition to Myanmar.