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Martijn Meerts

And I thought my local line station was too close to the express / shinkansen station 😄

 

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Had to browse the area as well. Never realized the back station at Kanazawa has roof top parking! Something interesting for the roof of a station on the layout. Great way to do a parking lot without taking up extra real estate on the layout. I’ve seen many larger buildings with the rooftop parking lot (sometime multistory).

 

jeff

 

https://goo.gl/maps/uSdHjG7hPHCue5437

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Yes. I followed the local line too. Goes west for a short while then terminates.

Going East then south for quite a way then terminates again. At the end of the line that way. Evidence of where the track originally continued. Including a couple of kilometres of track and overhead wires and a couple of bridges. Always makes me sad to see a closed line 😞

 

https://www.google.it/maps/@36.4493658,136.6223235,19z/data=!3m1!1e3

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26 minutes ago, Drunkenclam said:

Yes. I followed the local line too. Goes west for a short while then terminates.

Going East then south for quite a way then terminates again. At the end of the line that way. Evidence of where the track originally continued. Including a couple of kilometres of track and overhead wires and a couple of bridges. Always makes me sad to see a closed line 😞

 

https://www.google.it/maps/@36.4493658,136.6223235,19z/data=!3m1!1e3

 

Apparently, until 2009 the Ishikawa Line used to terminate at Kaga-Ichinomiya Station, a couple of kilometers south of the current terminus of Tsurugi. The Hokuriku railway used to run services even further south, with the Kinmei Line, up to Hakusanshita Station in Torigoe village. The line closed in 1987 and has since been converted into a bycicle path.

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Excellent! When you have a spot just high enough for the shrine next to the tracks but not space for all the grounds on one side of the track! 
 

thanks

 

jeff

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1 hour ago, disturbman said:

For those who don't have enough KiHa 58/28 to make a three-car consist.

 

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/D9orXnUU4AAzWK2?format=jpg&name=large

 

Noo! You can't just put an unpowered coach with no MU controls in between a pair of DMUs! They won't have enough power! It'll stress the transmissions! You won't be able to control the other car!

 

The guy who Duck-taped MU cables under a coach: Haha, extra car go burr

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The E6 shinkansen usually runs with the E5/H5 shinkansen together. Earlier in this thread I showed a video with the E6 running with an E4 (though only for demonstration purposes in a railyard). But apparently it also runs with the E2 occasionally, as @disturbman shared.

 

 

I'm also looking for a video of the E2 and E6 coupled together; if anyone has one please do share.

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On 11/29/2020 at 4:17 PM, Kiha66 said:

Sometimes I feel like I have too many freight cars...

 

 

 

 

Heck that is not even a train's worth for some US trains (though those are mostly intermodal).  They are running 4 mile long trains or longer in some areas.

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