Joban Line

[gmat]

I assume that these are part of the Joban Line, but cannot identify the two older models. Anyone help me out?

The green striped one is for Mito.

 

 

While I left the station to grab a quick bite to eat, this snuck in and was just leaving as I came back. This train and the other blue striped ones both have the LED lights that fragment when shot at higher shutter speeds, something that I didn't notice until it was too late. This one was leaving for Sendai.

 

This one doesn't display the destination station name but leaves it blank. I believe that it will go to Hitachi Station. The previous shots in this series had the number fragmented.

 

 

 

 

For some reason, even though I stayed at this station for over an hour and a half, I didn't shoot very many good photos of these trains. Next time, I guess.

 

Best wishes,

Grant

[disturbman]

First shot: The one wearing the Joban Line colors look like a Series 211 to me (the other one being certainly a Series E501).

 

Third shot: Maybe a Series E127.

[gmat]

Thanks, Disturbman.

Grant

[CaptOblivious]

The ones with the blue strip and door on the front are 415-1500's. Would kill for a model of these, but they haven't been produced in a while. The green stripes one with no door on the front is an E501, as a previous poster mentioned. MA recently  announced models of this type. Derivative of the ubiquitous 209 stock. Tghe older looking green one is, I think, well, I'm not sure. 205, maybe?

[miyakoji]

They look like 211s but they're actually 415-1500s, having AC/DC capability.  Earlier subseries of the 415s looked like 113s.  Off the top of my head I'm not aware of another series number that was applied to such different rolling stock.

[miyakoji]

Capt you are too fast!

[CaptOblivious]

Capt you are too fast!

 

I harbor a secret fascination for both variants of the 415. When they run (ran) in mixed formations, they present an interesting study in conrasts, new and old.

[David]

The third shot is almost certainly a 701-100 coming from Sendai Station. All the 701 series models look very similar to the E127-100. I had hoped Kato was going to use the E127 DCC tooling and make the small alterations needed to turn it into a number of the 701 paint schemes.

 

This one comes down the Tōhoku Main Line to Iwanuma where it runs on the Joban line to Iwaki.

[disturbman]

So I got one out of three, damn those AC/DC rolling-stock! ;)

[miyakoji]

I harbor a secret fascination for both variants of the 415. When they run (ran) in mixed formations, they present an interesting study in conrasts, new and old.

I agree that the mixed consists are interesting.  Based on some pictures I've seen, it presents no problems, although I assume the differences are more than superficial.  Do you know if any of the electrical gear is the same so MU'ing works properly?

 

So I got one out of three, damn those AC/DC rolling-stock! ;)

Damn it indeed.  Keep in mind, way up north in Tohoku, there's some AC-only rolling stock.  In fact the 211/415 has another look-alike, the 719, which is the AC-only version http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/719_series.  Also very interesting on this topic, the 5000 subseries of the 719 are standard 4'8½" gauge for the Ou Main Line between Fukushima and Shinjo.

 

edit: doesn't look like there's any AC-only equipment down in Kyushu

[gmat]

Thanks, David, miyakoji, disturbamn and CaptOblivious.

 

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/701_series

 

 

Best wishes,

Grant

[scott]

Third shot: Maybe a Series E127.

 

I thought so, too, but apparently it's a 701.

 

Looks a lot like this one: picture.

[scott]

 

Looks a lot like this one: picture.

 

Apologies for the useless post here--for some reason, I wasn't able to see all the posts after Vince's that had already settled this. Not sure what happened there. Maybe I had left the thread open too long.