Martin's Railway Pictures (Japan)

[martin67]

Hi all,

 

here's what I do when I'm travelling. I always carry my camera in my bag and take as much time as I can for trains (sometimes more, sometimes less). Inthis thread I will show you some of my pictures from Japan, starting with the latest ones from this year (August 2018). This is what I saw in Hachioji, wich used to be the hometown of my dear wife.

 

Vintage Postal Railcar behind an EF64, unfortunately I was a bit too late and this little train was just about to leave. Otherwise I would have switched over to the other platform to get better pictures.

 

 

As you see, many railfans were there...

 

 

Two ballast hoppers

 

 

 

Buffer stop. Here used to be the engine house a couple of years ago, but this is long gone. Some of you will remember....

 

 

Hybrid HD300-17 shunting tankers

 

 

And here's  the other side of this loco.

 

 

Hachiko Line 209

 

 

Chuo Rapid E233 from Takao

 

 

Strings of hoppers and takers

 

 

 

One of the brand new E353 on the Azusa Service for Shinjuku. All E351 "Super Azusa" are gone, sadly...

 

 

EH200-16 shunting

 

 

209 Musashino Line, a few of these services terminate in Hachioji

 

 

Another E353

 

 

And at last, some playing with the camera

 

 

Will continue this from time to time with more recent and older pictures.

 

Nice weekend,

 

Martin

 

 

[Socimi]

4 hours ago, martin67 said:

Hachiko Line 209

 

Nice find!

Those two former TWR Rinkai Line trains are hard to find, as from what i've read online, they spend most of their time stored away in depots!

[martin67]

Didn't care so much about this train, actually. Now that you say, it's one of two 209-3100 sets.

...Lack of knowledge!

 

Grazie Mille 🙃

 

Martin

Edited October 17, 2018 by martin67

[martin67]

My favourite place for train spotting in Japan is the Hasuda rice field. It's just a few stops outbound from Omiya on the Shonan-Shinjuku-Line. After leaving the staton in Hasuda just walk back along the tracks until you reach the rice field (about 20 minutes). Near the field is a railway crossing which announces every train with bell and light and even shows the direction of the train. There's lots of freight traffic, too.

 

Just arrived, inbound freight with EF65 2081

 

 

JR 253 ex NEX on a Nikko service

 

 

EF500-61 with containers

 

 

EH500-1, different headlights and paint scheme

 

 

Outbound EH500-66

 

 

EF210-143

 

 

EH500-41 carrying automobile parts...

 

 

...easy to tell for whom!

 

 

Nice blue-cream liveried EF65-2074

 

 

EF210-135 inbound

 

 

EH500-77, Hasuda is visible in the background

 

 

EH500-6, first series livery

 

 

Shonan-Shinjuku-Line E231, even if it looks different, the majority of the traffic are these trains, not the freighters

 

 

Another outbound train with an unknown EF210

 

 

The sun went over to the other side of the tracks, and I did, too. Outbound is now right to left.

 

 

Tobu Railway Class 100 "Spacia" from Nikko

 

 

In  the morning somebody told me, that there would be a very special train later that day. It was a charter train with "Cassiopeia" sleepers, pulled by EF81-95 in red rainbow colours and even carrying the Cassiopeia-Drumhead on the front.

 

 

Not that you think I was alone, no way! Such a train attract others, too. Somebody there from this forum?

 

 

Cheerio,

 

Martin

[Densha]

Very nice photos! It is just a some small nitpicking, but on some photos part of the train is just outside of the picture. My suggestion is to zoom out or move a little bit so that you can actually photograph the whole train, just like on your E231 photo. It would have looked especially good for the Cassiopeia, because the coaches look too special to miss out on!

[martin67]

Well, there are some people out there, who think that "where's the train pictures" are the only acceptable way to photograph trains. Means, some people try to put a 200 car train and 90% of the State of Arizona on just one picture 😉. I have a series of pictures of the Cassiopeia, one is complete, but the loco front just hits a catenary pole. On that day I just had my 70-300mm Tamron lens with me, which is  good for plane spotting but rather big for trains. My possibilities were a little bit limited. Could have tried a closer angle, but this makes the space for the loco between two poles rather short, especially with the big lens. Anyway, I don't like microscopic trains on huge pictures. I want to see the running number of the loco. The longer the train, the harder it gets to get it on completely and, the more train, the smaller it is on the picture. Btw. The E231 is on the other side of the tracks, where you have a little bit more lengthy track.Will check and try next time.

 

Cheers,

 

Martin

[serotta1972]

Nice pics, thanks for sharing.  Next time I go to Japan, I would like to go somewhere and just watch trains such as this place.

[martin67]

Here's my very last ride on a Chuo Line Series 201 on January 22nd, 2010. It was a special rapid service, which I rode from Hachioji to Tokyo Central.I was in the first car and had a nice forward view through the front window.

 

 

 

 

Have a nice evening,

 

Martin