Oigawa's fleet of classics

[miyakoji]

Really good video of Oigawa's fleet of older equipment from all over, including JNR, Kintetsu, Keihan, Nankai, and Seibu.  It's hard to get a sense of how much they have, but it certainly looks like a lot.

 

by K's Trip Japan.  Video has English subtitles, click on the CC and gear in the lower right to enable.

 

Google map centered on Shin-Kanaya Station.  https://www.google.com/maps/@34.8257905,138.1377273,309m/data=!3m1!1e3?hl=en  You can see cars on the sidings, and at the end of the spur that diverges just south of the station, there are more.

[marknewton]

Thanks very much for posting this. Oigawa is probably my favourite out of the 1067mm gauge private lines. And this video is a good overview of their fleet.

 

All the best,

 

Mark.

[Beaver]

Typical preservation railway; more stock than they can use or look after..........

 

Oh, and don't they all look so much nicer than most modern stuff? Those old engineers could make even a simple box body graceful and dignified. Nowadays industrial designers who don't necessarily know a thing about how their creations actually work, produce fancy sculptures of plastic and glass that occasionally gives a striking impression of speed and efficiency but often just look like a nonsensical mess of features, or an oversized sports car, or something you plug into a smartphone........

Edited March 7, 2023 by Beaver