sportinglife Posted March 27, 2011 Share Posted March 27, 2011 Hello, I just bought a Nishi-Nippon Railroad Ohmuta Line Type 200 in brown livery but I don't know where to apply the decals Are the inscription in the same place as the post-war red and cream model pictured here?Can anyone help me? Beside I'd like more info about this wonderful motor. It's not easy find info on internet and automatic translation from japanese are awful Thanks for help Link to comment
CaptOblivious Posted March 28, 2011 Share Posted March 28, 2011 Did it come with any kind of instruction sheet for the decals that someone here could translate? I'm sure someone on this forum is familiar enough with the prototype that that shouldn't be necessary though. Link to comment
sportinglife Posted March 28, 2011 Author Share Posted March 28, 2011 Unfortunately not , in the box there were just the model and the decals (it's one-mile model). It's rather strange since japanese model are plenty of clear instruction For sure a decals, must be placed on the white board on the front, but I don't know about the others. Thanks Link to comment
marknewton Posted March 29, 2011 Share Posted March 29, 2011 I think I've seen one pre-war photo of these cars, if I can find the book it's in I'll scan it and post it. Cheers, Mark. Link to comment
sportinglife Posted March 30, 2011 Author Share Posted March 30, 2011 Thanks! I wasn't able to find photos on the net. I think the white board in the front should display destination; the fact is that decals destination board has been traslittered in Latin scripts as well and these ones I think doesn't match with the pre-war livery. Some pictures front and side, would help a lot. Link to comment
bill937ca Posted May 13, 2011 Share Posted May 13, 2011 One red and cream photo here: http://www.tetsudo.com/kefu/136/ I think this is as close as we will get. Not a lot of markings on these cars. Just a logo and hard to see car numbers on most cars. http://www.k3.dion.ne.jp/~mser/newpage118.html You might also try these links. I'm not sure you will find many pre-war photos. http://saro1632.amigasa.jp/ http://www7a.biglobe.ne.jp/~rre/index1.htm http://www.k3.dion.ne.jp/~mser/newpage01.html Link to comment
sportinglife Posted May 14, 2011 Author Share Posted May 14, 2011 Thanks for links! I'll go through Link to comment
sportinglife Posted October 30, 2011 Author Share Posted October 30, 2011 I've scanned the decals: can anyone help me? ??? ??? ??? ??? Link to comment
bikkuri bahn Posted October 31, 2011 Share Posted October 31, 2011 sportinglife, the the rectangular decals are destination signs, applied to the front board. The round decals to the lower right are train type signs. In this case, the signs are all "kaisou", meaning "out of service". The character is the old fashioned [廻送], rather than the current [回送]. This is mounted to the right of the destination sign, as in this picture from 1940. This particular train has a "semi express" or "jun-kyu" sign [準急]mounted. Link to comment
sportinglife Posted October 31, 2011 Author Share Posted October 31, 2011 Thanks Bikkuri! Link to comment
sportinglife Posted October 31, 2011 Author Share Posted October 31, 2011 sportinglife, the the rectangular decals are destination signs, applied to the front board. The round decals to the lower right are train type signs. In this case, the signs are all "kaisou", meaning "out of service". The character is the old fashioned [廻送], rather than the current [回送]. This is mounted to the right of the destination sign, as in this picture from 1940. This particular train has a "semi express" or "jun-kyu" sign [準急]mounted. OK, I was wondering if the destination board (this I got it!) should show different destination on the two side, so when the train reverse at the terminus the destination is already changed, or such boards are the same on both sides and are changed every time at the terminus...beside I'd like to have a likely destinations for a "semi-express" has shown in the pictures... thanks Marco Link to comment
sportinglife Posted October 31, 2011 Author Share Posted October 31, 2011 ...why some destination boards have a blu frame and some are on black background? I think the right one for pre-war cars are the black ones, aren't they? ??? Link to comment
bikkuri bahn Posted November 1, 2011 Share Posted November 1, 2011 The destination boards are the same on the front and back of the train. They are changed at the terminal. I don't know the distinctions between the destination boards, but the plain white background ones seem to be the most common, and appear in all color pictures. The black background is old fashioned (you don't see black background signs much anymore anywhere), so you are probably right. Link to comment
sportinglife Posted November 1, 2011 Author Share Posted November 1, 2011 Thanks Bikkuri, Here's the picture with decals! I do love such electric railcar! :cheesy Link to comment
sportinglife Posted November 13, 2011 Author Share Posted November 13, 2011 Can anyone provide me some infos about such railcar: for instance services, when they were scrapped, liveries, consist, type of service... thanks M Link to comment
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