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Umekoji roundhouse, which now has the Kyoto Railway Museum around it, in 1946. Nice footage. A different location is depicted around 5:28, the video description says it may be the Keio Inokashira Line. Definitely not Kyoto Station :). Although I was wondering if it was Hankyu Arashiyama, that's...
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Umekoji Steam Locomotive Museum
mattdwnunder posted a topic in Japan Rail: News & General Discussion
I am likely to be travelling to Kyoto in December 2015. I understand that the museum is undergoing significant reconfiguration to include more modern rollingstock. Will the roundhouse and the collection it houses still be accessible at that time? -
running direction of EF510-1 reversed
miyakoji posted a topic in Japan Rail: News & General Discussion
First I thought this was the truest expression of tetsudou mania I'd seen in a while--someone noticed that EF510-1 was taken to Umekoji (from Suita, not its home base of Toyama) to be turned 180 degress. Is this for wheel wear? Or maybe for repair purposes, as it wasn't driven there under its own... -
Here are two good videos of an open day sort of event at Umekoji. Ayokoi's video features a still image of an informational panel with some English before showing the engine itself. Karibajct's video has some scenes inside the roundhouse, filmed from on top of something about as tall as a locomoti...
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special exhibition at the Osaka Modern Transportation Museum
miyakoji posted a topic in Japan Rail: Pictures & Videos
As discussed here http://www.jnsforum.com/community/topic/7717-osaka-modern-transportation-museum-to-close-april-6-2014 , the Osaka Modern Transportation Museum will close April 6, 2014, and its contents (some amount of it, anyway) will move to JR West's new museum at Umekoji, which is to open in 20...
