Jingfu Dentetsu

[bill937ca]

 

 

 

 

 

The descriptions are very vague on these videos. I should remember the name of this railroad, but I don't.   Anyways it's something out of ordinary.

[ToniBabelony]

Jingfu? IIRC it's Keifuku (京 = Kei/Miyako) (福 = Fuku). But yeah, nice video's. Now the company is called Echizen Tetsudou (since 2002) however and operates the Katsuyama Eiheiji-line. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Echizen_Railway

[bill937ca]

Jingfu? IIRC it's Keifuku (京 = Kei/Miyako) (福 = Fuku). But yeah, nice video's. Now the company is called Echizen Tetsudou (since 2002) however and operates the Katsuyama Eiheiji-line. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Echizen_Railway

 

Jingfu was the way his You Tube heading translated. Looks like they had a commemorative day this weekend.

[David]

The first video seems to have 2 engines. The one in the middle is a steep cab of some sort, but the one on the end (which I think is the same as the second video) - what prototype is this? Is there a class name for these little electric engines that also have space for passengers/cargo?

[bill937ca]

The steeple cab could be modeled with the Kato Pocket Line steeple cabs.

 

Aoshima makes a model of a small freight motor similar to #6.

 

http://www.ne.jp/asahi/aya/wing/roko/keifuku6.html

 

http://www.hcn.zaq.ne.jp/cadzy500/HP1/chinsya-htm/echizen_teki6/echizen_teki6.htm

 

http://nemuihito.at.webry.info/201105/article_23.html

 

http://cgi.ebay.com/Mini-Size-Train-Black-N-scale-Aoshima-87213-/120652286508?pt=Model_RR_Trains&hash=item1c176fca2c

 

This is not the Keifuku line in Kyoto, but a division near Toyama that shutdown after two serious accidents.

[quashlo]

The translator algorithm probably defaulted to Chinese... Those are the Mandarin pronunciations of the characters.

"Jing" is the same as in Beijing, "fu" is the same as in Fujian Province.

[keiman]

http://cgi.ebay.com/Mini-Size-Train-Black-N-scale-Aoshima-87213-/120652286508?pt=Model_RR_Trains&hash=item1c176fca2c

Have got this one and to be honest the chassis may be N but  the rest is nearer HO ,over scale-nice model if I was doing HO narrow gauge.

[Nick_Burman]

http://cgi.ebay.com/Mini-Size-Train-Black-N-scale-Aoshima-87213-/120652286508?pt=Model_RR_Trains&hash=item1c176fca2c

Have got this one and to be honest the chassis may be N but  the rest is nearer HO ,over scale-nice model if I was doing HO narrow gauge.

 

Thanks for the short review. In any case the prototype is from the Shizuoka Railway and different from the Keifuku/Echizen unit.

 

 

Cheers NB

[David]

I just like those kind of units period. If Kato (or arguably even Microace) made one that was a good runner I'd definitely create a mini layout around it.