We've secretly replaced their streetcars with a giant commuter EMU.

[Mudkip Orange]

Let's see if anyone notices...

 

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h9yboDoApBk

 

Location: Inuyama Bridge, Meitetsu (Nagoya Railway), immediately south of JR Unuma Station. This was a joint road-rail bridge until 2000, when the cars moved to a new parallel bridge and the existing structure was left for trains and trains alone.

[Mudkip Orange]

A cab ride...

 

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rZenK5E6vHM

[Mudkip Orange]

...and some "historic" footage.

 

[disturbman]

Cool, I was looking for video of this exact same bridge but I didn't know its name or its location.

[Kabutoni]

Ah, Inuyama bridge! I've played the complete Inuyama line on Densha de GO! Nagoya-hen continuously just to run over the Inuyama bridge as a reward. Such as shame that location is gone. The only street running action where great EMU run the streets is maybe on the Kyoto Tozai line from Keihan and the Fukui streetcars (Kumaden isn't really street running IMO).

[bill937ca]

Meitetsu replaced that bridge several years ago, so all the videos are history now.  Here's a couple of Japanese language pages on the bridge.

 

http://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E7%8A%AC%E5%B1%B1%E6%A9%8B

 

http://www.nmt.ne.jp/~ysas/tabi/0003meitetsu/inuyama.html

 

http://www.takagi-ryo.ac/docs/id/199/

 

http://mat0213.blog17.fc2.com/blog-entry-556.html

[cteno4]

I have always wanted to model this bridge. was a great example of japanese trains! going down the middle of the street on a bridge. showed there was a prototype for just about anything doing japanese trains!

 

cheers

 

jeff

[quinntopia]

This is fantastic!  I just added a somewhat similar bridge to my layout but had no prototypical reference!    No I can detail it and add road markings with some confidence! Cool!

 

(thanks disturbman!)

[disturbman]

(No prob, don't forget to thank Mudkip too. I wanted to show you this but never would have been able to if Mudkip hadn't make this thread.)

[quinntopia]

Thanks Mudkup! 

[NGT6 1315]

Amazing - thanks for those links!

 

I think I'm beginning to understand the purpose of those musical horns as well - would these serve to increase attention even beyond what a normal horn would achieve?