JR Tokai railway museum

[bikkuri bahn]

As mentioned in the thread about Tokyo travel, this Monday, Mar. 14, JR Tokai will open a railway museum in Nagoya.  Once again here is the English language website:

http://museum.jr-central.co.jp/en/

 

This article has a good selection of pics of what's on display in the new museum. A good portion of the older stock came from the now closed Sakuma Rail Park (scroll down for a table of contents):

http://www.jiji.com/jc/d4?p=jrt001&d=d4_news

 

Here two members of SKE48, AKB48's sister group based out of Nagoya, visit the still under construction museum, focusing on the 0 series:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_2U6PcvvH1k

[Tenorikuma]

Hopefully I can arrange my work schedule on Monday to have a few hours off so I can go see it.

[Guest ___]

I see they have a 300X on display, but they appear to also have a regular 300 series. How'd they mange that?

[Tecchan]

I see they have a 300X on display, but they appear to also have a regular 300 series. How'd they mange that?

 

I suppose some 300 series were put down with the 500 series now on Kodama service.

It's getting difficult seeing anything else than a 700 or N700 nowdays...

[Nick_Burman]

As mentioned in the thread about Tokyo travel, this Monday, Mar. 14, JR Tokai will open a railway museum in Nagoya.  Once again here is the English language website:

http://museum.jr-central.co.jp/en/

 

This article has a good selection of pics of what's on display in the new museum. A good portion of the older stock came from the now closed Sakuma Rail Park (scroll down for a table of contents):

http://www.jiji.com/jc/d4?p=jrt001&d=d4_news

 

Here two members of SKE48, AKB48's sister group based out of Nagoya, visit the still under construction museum, focusing on the 0 series:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_2U6PcvvH1k

 

Also (apparently) the steam railcar and inspection (Imperial?) saloon which were at Meiji Mura.

 

Cheers NB

[Tenorikuma]

The opening ceremony scheduled for Monday the 14th was just cancelled.

 

http://jr-central.co.jp/news/release/nws000705.html

[Tenorikuma]

By the way, I visited the JR Superconducting Maglev Museum (probably more correctly called the Shinkansen Museum) on its opening day today. The opening ceremony had been canceled, but it was packed.

 

In addition to the prototype Shinkansen trains on display, highlights included a simulated maglev ride and a massive HO-scale rail layout with Nagoya Station at the centre. The layout was automated, but you could see into the control room, where the main operator monitored the display via a panel of computer monitors — one for each train line.