JNR Nagaoka Marshalling Yard circa 1979/12/1

[bill937ca]

For those interested in JNR freight operations, this blog has photos and a track diagram dating from 1979 for Nagaoka marshaling yard .

 

http://senrohaisenzu.cocolog-nifty.com/blog/2008/10/1979121-f8cd.html

 

Its a much more North American looking mix of freight cars, although I suspect most were two axle cars.

 

Another page has wiring diagrams for Nippori from 1951, 1958, 1961, 1967, 1969, 1972 and 1980.

 

http://senrohaisenzu.cocolog-nifty.com/blog/2010/04/post-48b1.html

 

This may be a very useful blog for JNR era modelers.

[bikkuri bahn]

Yes, that's a quite good, potentially excellent site, not just for freight operations, but for station track layouts pre-JR and pre-rationalization, when intermediate stations handled local freight as well as express traffic.  Nowadays you can see the empty space, called eki ura in Japanese (almost always on the opposite side of the station headhouse/main building) either taken up by parking space or new development, but was formerly occupied by freight car and/or passenger car storage/shunting trackage, or a motive power shed /stabling area.

 

I like the site because the pics can be enlarged.  However, the indexing system (or lack thereof) leaves much to be desired.  I often stumble upon specific station diagrams on this site through a regular google search, rather than directly accessing the site.

[bikkuri bahn]

A bit of background info about this blog.  The blogger never visited any railways in Hokkaido or Shikoku, and only Kyushu after 2000.  So no entries about those places. He used "shuyuken" (region passes or "rovers") to get around. These allowed unlimited travel on local and express trains.  He states that back then (the seventies, early eighties) there were still many night express trains, which allowed him to cover a lot of territory efficiently in the allotted one week to ten days he could use the pass.

[Mudkip Orange]

but was formerly occupied by freight car and/or passenger car storage/shunting trackage

 

Did these include what Americans commonly refer to as a "team track," i.e., a public or railway-owned loading and unloading platform which could be leased by small users?

[bikkuri bahn]

but was formerly occupied by freight car and/or passenger car storage/shunting trackage

 

Did these include what Americans commonly refer to as a "team track," i.e., a public or railway-owned loading and unloading platform which could be leased by small users?

 

Usually (and using North American terms) the "house track" or "team track" was located on the station building side of the site according to a standard plan, probably to concentrate facilities in one location.  However, this being Japan and station site geography and property lines varying place to place, there could be examples of such facilities on the far "Eki Ura" side.

 

Take a look at these pictures, at Tachikawa Station, which are facilities on the station building side and where (as now) most of the commercial activity is located:

 

http://senrohaisenzu.cocolog-nifty.com/photos/uncategorized/2008/08/15/19790504tachikawa12.jpg

 

http://senrohaisenzu.cocolog-nifty.com/photos/uncategorized/2008/08/15/19790504tachikawa13.jpg