Ogoya on film

[Nick_Burman]

 

A few seconds of the Ogoya Railway, caught for the big screen...

 

Love those milk cans being loaded on the railcar's "basket"...

 

Cheers NB

[westfalen]

They have to be empty ones they way he lifts them. Up until the mid 80's the local butter factory here would get six to a dozen cans of cream a day by rail, it was often my job to load or unload them at one end or the other. I like the station master pulling off the home signal for the next train before he goes back inside, probably to have a cup of tea and finish reading the paper, memories of working at stations up the Brisbane Valley branch in the 80's.

[bikkuri bahn]

I like the station master pulling off the home signal for the next train before he goes back inside,

 

I loved that little detail too, was common to see such a thing back in the day.  Director Yoji Yamada's films often have scenes with railway content, and even without, are real gems of Showa era atmosphere.

[miyakoji]

I'm afraid of that--if I watch one, I may have to watch all... how many dozen.  kind of an OCD or something.