E231 or similar undercarriage

[Cziter]

 

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Hello, i'm looking for some bottom refference to my e231 3d model, it can be any type of that kind of train. Hard to find without proper english therminology.

[KenS]

Good question.  Despite lots of past searches for E231 info, I've never seen a photo or diagram of the underside of a real one.  But this motivated me to do some looking and I found a few photos of some of the details, as well as some associated info.  Some terms I used to search on were "JR東日本 E231 系電車" (JR East E231 Series Train), "E231系VVVF制御装置" (VVVF system controller E231) and "JR東日本 E231 駆動装置" (JR East E231 drive system).

 

An interesting page on "E231 parts":

http://e231series.web.fc2.com/e231/parts/parts.html

 

Pages showing which cars on suburban and Yamanote E231s have which subsystems:

http://ytrain.web.fc2.com/jreast/E231tohoku.html

http://ytrain.web.fc2.com/jreast/E231tokaido.html

http://ytrain.web.fc2.com/jreast/E231_500.html

 

A couple of wikimedia commons photos:

 

An E231 compressor (presumably mounted to the underside somewhere):

http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:JR_East_E231_Air_Compressor.jpg

 

E231 Bogies:

http://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E3%83%95%E3%82%A1%E3%82%A4%E3%83%AB:JR_East_E231-1000_Bogie.jpg

http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:L25_DT61G.jpg

http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:L25_TR246P.jpg

 

E233 TIMS boxes:

http://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E3%83%95%E3%82%A1%E3%82%A4%E3%83%AB:TIMS_box_E233_1000.jpg

 

JR East Technical documents (not much there):

http://www.jreast.co.jp/development/tech/pdf_17/Tech-17-07-12.pdf

 

http://www.jreast.co.jp/eco/pdf/pdf_2004/06_07.pdf

[Cziter]

Thank you very much, it was helpfull(i found even more using kanji names from those sites ). I got all the materials except front bumper/plate. Shape is tricky and photos are only from front(side pics from "engine house" are w/o bumper). I couldnt even find a good KATO model picture(nice detailed btw). Thx again.

 

 

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[KenS]

Glad I could help.  If you found other interesting links, please post them here.  I'd be interested, and I suspect others would as well.

 

Is this model for a simulation program, or are you designing a physical model of a train?