Private companies' trains old photos site

[Socimi]

http://www.k3.dion.ne.jp/~mser/newpage01.html

 

An awersome archive of private companies' trains. it looks the've been took in the 70s.

[railsquid]

1968 to 1977, about half Kansai area (top group of 9), the rest Nagoya, Kansai and Nishitetsu.

 

Bottom link is Eidan and Osaka Chikatetsu.

[Socimi]

Those are nice photos.

[bikkuri bahn]

Good thing about this site are the color pictures, many of the older types you typically only see in b/w pics. Just a quick peruse has turned up some gems, such as street running in Nara on the Kintetsu Line.

 

*another look and you can see as late as 1969 there were still many prewar types running on Kansai area railways. Many of the Kanto railways were already well into standardizing on postwar types. Of course now those postwar types are the ones contemporary fans wax nostalgic about.

Edited March 1, 2016 by bikkuri bahn