Multi-era trains

[velotrain]

Earlier today I came across this photograph showing a steam train departing - an excursion, based on all of the spectators, just as a 0 series Shinkansen is passing, with what looks like a commuter train on another track, with a freight yard in the background.

 

 

 

 

[railsquid]

Looks like the former Shiodome goods terminal, with the picture taken from a location south of Shinbashi Station. The commuter train would be the Yamanote Line heading towards Tokyo Station.

[Nick_Burman]

I think this was the last official steam train out of Tokyo.

 

Cheers NB

[Kiha66]

I think this may be the same run, lots of people lining the tracks.  Wonder what the crew were doing hanging on the front of the locomotive.

http://railway2.web.fc2.com/wb_old/c577/c577.html

[velotrain]

I think this was the last official steam train out of Tokyo.

 

Cheers NB

 

That would certainly explain the packed train, with arms waving out of every window, and all the folks standing on the freight yards lead tracks.

 

You have to wonder if the departure was timed to coincide with the Shinkansen arrival?

[velotrain]

Wonder what the crew were doing hanging on the front of the locomotive.

 

They're not the operational engine crew, as from their gestures they're clearly trying to keep the crowds back, and it looks like there's more guys in the cab with a similar role.

[Sacto1985]

That's a pretty amazing photograph--the past, present and future of railroading in Japan.

[velotrain]

I think this may be the same run, lots of people lining the tracks.  

 

Here's part of the translation of the top text on the linked page:

 

1972 (Showa 47) October 14 C577 runs in Tokyo - Yokohama

 

 

One of the events commemorating the 100th anniversary of the opening of the railway, C577, the No. 1 locomotive between Shinbashi Sakuragi-cho, ran through a red belt passenger car. C577 had a bull's-eye arrow because the number is relatively young, so C57 of the Kii dobanaut agency district is said to be.

 

[railsquid]

I wonder what a "dobanaut" is? ;) Google seems to have derived it from "田辺", which as far as I can ascertain is prononuced "Tanabe" in the context of a town on the Kii Peninsula.

 

Try this for more pictures of Shinkansens and steamers:

 

https://www.google.co.jp/search?q=%E6%96%B0%E5%B9%B9%E7%B7%9A%E3%80%80%E8%92%B8%E6%B0%97%E6%A9%9F%E9%96%A2%E8%BB%8A

[velotrain]

I like the simulated Shinkansen under steam ;-)

 

 

 

[kvp]

It's more like a tgv that met with the wrong kind of snow.

 

Btw. i like the old shidome terminal shot. The first passenger building was around the right side of the picture at the buffer stops.

[velotrain]

It's more like a tgv that met with the wrong kind of snow.

 

Just goes to show that you can't trust Google to find what you ask for.  I used railsquid's link for "more pictures of Shinkansens and steamers".

 

 

I don't understand what you're saying about the "first passenger building" - I would have thought the steam train was departing from a passenger platform?

[Jcarlton]

Just goes to show that you can't trust Google to find what you ask for.  I used railsquid's link for "more pictures of Shinkansens and steamers".

 

 

I don't understand what you're saying about the "first passenger building" - I would have thought the steam train was departing from a passenger platform?

The first passenger station was at Shimbashi and became the Shiodome freight terminal as the Yamanote and Tokaido Lines bypassed the original terminal into Tokyo Station.

[Jcarlton]

Here's another one, departing from Tokyo Station.

http://blogs.yahoo.co.jp/tsubasa181_1/GALLERY/show_image.html?id=33017293&no=0

[velotrain]

I saw that earlier, and was suitably impressed by the size of the station.

Edited November 28, 2016 by velotrain

[Jcarlton]

^{Here's another blog.}

^{http://blog.railmec.info/?p=3796}

^{apparently the last steamer had been back in 1970 and the railfans were out in force all over the track.}