Freight action at Yono.

[westfalen]

It's been a while since I posted any video from my holidays last year so here's some freight action taken over about an hour one morning last September at Yono in Tokyo's northern suburbs.

 

[bikkuri bahn]

A good spot to catch freight trains, as Yono is near the connection with the Musashino Line, which serves as a loop line/bypass for freight trains. Seems reasonably uncrowded on the platform too, though "uncrowded" is relative as in this case it means 24,800 passengers/day, or about the same total number of passengers that use stations on the Caltrain commuter line in San Fransisco and Santa Clara counties combined daily.  A nice variety of loco types, I especially like those howling EF66's on the container trains.

[stevenh]

That EF66 with the headmark is a classic... I can't read what the headmark says though... if it's heading north then it might be for the relief effort?

[Nick_Burman]

Note container train with "covered gondola" containers and stacked empty steel rod carriers. Container trains need not be dull...

 

 

Cheers NB

[bikkuri bahn]

That EF66 with the headmark is a classic... I can't read what the headmark says though

 

It appears to be this:

http://image.space.rakuten.co.jp/lg01/20/0000813620/94/img667d03a0zik4zj.jpeg

 

It's a promotional headmark for the upcoming JRF festival/open house in Hiroshima on Oct.24, 2010 (which I attended).

[westfalen]

That EF66 with the headmark is a classic... I can't read what the headmark says though

 

It appears to be this:

http://image.space.rakuten.co.jp/lg01/20/0000813620/94/img667d03a0zik4zj.jpeg

 

It's a promotional headmark for the upcoming JRF festival/open house in Hiroshima on Oct.24, 2010 (which I attended).

That's it, even the same loco, see the photo below. Handy having a camera that can take stills and video at the same time.

 

"Seems reasonably uncrowded on the platform too, though "uncrowded" is relative"

Even here I shared the platform with a Japanese railfan, he got excited when EF66 27 came through but when he saw blue and white EF64 1004 he was like a baseball fan whose team had just won the finals.

[KenS]

That's an impressive number of freight trains for an hour. And some of them were making good time too.  Even in passenger-centric Japan, there's enough freight action to be interesting.  And a nice selection of motive power.  Love the EH500 at the end.

[westfalen]

That's an impressive number of freight trains for an hour. And some of them were making good time too.  Even in passenger-centric Japan, there's enough freight action to be interesting.  And a nice selection of motive power.  Love the EH500 at the end.

 

I almost missed the EH500 because I was going to hop on a train back into town but at the last minute decided for some reason to wait for the next one, the EH500 came along while I was waiting. My own favorite is the EF64 barreling through with containers overtaking the empty tank car train.

[marknewton]

My own favorite is the EF64 barreling through with containers overtaking the empty tank car train.

 

The crew must have been on a promise! 

 

Cheers,

 

Mark.