Japanese Work Train

[bill937ca]

Here's one for you. An old brown passenger EMU and two ballast cars. Small enough even for the smallest layout.

 

 

http://st614.blog85.fc2.com/blog-entry-165.html

 

A link at the bottom suggests this is on the Jomo Electric Railroad, a local private railway running second-hand stock.

 

http://www15.wind.ne.jp/~joden/index.htm

 

http://www15.wind.ne.jp/~joden/700kei/700keisyoukai.html

[CaptOblivious]

That's a great find, Bill! The cab car is a near (but not quite perfect) match with the Tomytec unit flooding eBay right now; I already have a ton of HOKI800; this will be a great train to run on Shogatsu when I pull it out of storage in a week or so.

[Guest ___]

That is pretty cool. Reminds me of the old SEPTA stuff.

[bill937ca]

That's a great find, Bill! The cab car is a near (but not quite perfect) match with the Tomytec unit flooding eBay right now; I already have a ton of HOKI800; this will be a great train to run on Shogatsu when I pull it out of storage in a week or so.

 

And the car is in near prefect condition inside too! 

 

http://st614.blog85.fc2.com/blog-entry-343.html

[bill937ca]

Here is another scene from the same blog that could be considered a work train.  The blue and white train has just been delivered to the Izuhakone Railway by a JR freight train.  I presume the red buffers signal a dead train. I believe the location is Odawara, but there also is a JR connection at Mishima.  There are lots of details that could be copied here. The yellow tow motor, the blue collar staff and some un-standard uniforms.

 

 

 

http://st614.blog85.fc2.com/blog-entry-339.html

 

Here's the Wikipedia page on the Izuhakone Railway.

 

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Izuhakone_Railway

 

Wikipedia Commons

 

http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:Rolling_stock_of_Izuhakone_Railway

 

I found more photos of this event on another web site.

 

http://llkusaba.karou.jp/railway/050822izuhakone/5000.htm