Railfans in Japan

[kuro68000]

Back in the news again, and not for a good reason.

 

[Tony Galiani]

This has got to be tough on the train crews and station staff.  They are not going to want to see someone hurt while they are on the job so it has got to be stressful for them.

Tony

[bill937ca]

All this just for a work EMU towing an out of service train!

Edited Sunday at 08:31 PM by bill937ca

[bc6]

I agree with you bill and a dirty train at that.

Edited 23 hours ago by bc6

[bill937ca]

4051 is a Hankyu Railway "rescue car." Appearances of this car would be unscheduled and very rare.  Before electronic communications maybe only half a dozen railfans would know of this run.  As this was an after hours recovery, today it would be on social media all day and the whole world shows up!!

 

 https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/阪急4050形電車

 

A quieter scene of the recovery.

 

 

Edited Sunday at 09:57 PM by bill937ca

[Beaver]

This then is why most railway companies ban tripods, steps and other photography aids from their premises. Because they will make the horde of photographers problem much worse. Too many steps and even full blown ladders to count in that video.

[RS18U]

When we visited in March my wife was amazed at how many people she observed taking pictures of trains.  Nothing like this, but not something we see a lot of here in any case.  I had fun taking pictures of people taking pictures of the trains.