Have you ever purchased a single EMU car?

[bc6]

Say I wanted to buy a single E233 series 1000 series Keihin Tohoku car can I by it from someplace or am I dreaming?

[katoftw]

Yahoo has heaps like that

Edited May 25, 2023 by katoftw

[bill937ca]

A long, long time ago single cars were sold.  But nothing in the past decade. 

[Wolf]

5 hours ago, katoftw said:

Yahoo has heaps like that

 

Yeah, only option that would come to my mind as well.

 

Example: https://buyee.jp/item/yahoo/auction/p1091241593

Edited May 25, 2023 by Wolf

[Beaver]

There's also the 'First Car Museum' range from Tomix. Single driving cars of the most renowned EMUs with special pieces of display track to power the headlights.

 

And of course, some EMU types are double cab motor cars that can operate together with each other or multiple unit sets, effectively a one-car set. Typically luggage/mail/LCL units which could be attached to a passenger set or run alone, such as the 145 series. But there is the single car passenger 123 series. Most of the JNR and JR one-cars have been covered by manufacturers in N at some point.

 

Local railways often had single unit electric cars, both passenger and freight, but many of these had no ability to operate in multiple and would pull loco-hauled cars and run around them at termini like a locomotive, so are classed as simple railcars and not EMUs. For commercial models of these the options are usually either Tomytec or kits.

[Beaver]

Quick look at the First Car Museum range shows an E235 but no E233.

 

https://1999.co.jp/eng/search?typ1_c=104&cat=&state=&sold=0&sortid=6&searchkey=first+car+museum

[bc6]

8 hours ago, Beaver said:

There's also the 'First Car Museum' range from Tomix. Single driving cars of the most renowned EMUs with special pieces of display track to power the headlights.

 

And of course, some EMU types are double cab motor cars that can operate together with each other or multiple unit sets, effectively a one-car set. Typically luggage/mail/LCL units which could be attached to a passenger set or run alone, such as the 145 series. But there is the single car passenger 123 series. Most of the JNR and JR one-cars have been covered by manufacturers in N at some point.

 

Local railways often had single unit electric cars, both passenger and freight, but many of these had no ability to operate in multiple and would pull loco-hauled cars and run around them at termini like a locomotive, so are classed as simple railcars and not EMUs. For commercial models of these the options are usually either Tomytec or kits.

Thanks for your detailed response 👍