DF200 (with whistle!)

[bill937ca]

[stevenh]

DF200?

[clem24]

Yeah DF200... Living in North America, I find short freight consists really strange hahaha.

[bill937ca]

Oops!  Thanks guys, I changed it.

[bikkuri bahn]

I find short freight consists really strange

 

Strange outside of Japan and Europe, I would say.  Long freights are very slow to accelerate, take a long distance to brake, and likely have a higher risk for derailment, so not good on networks where passenger trains take precedence.  Of course, in Japan and to a lesser extent Europe, freight traffic on the rails is a minority mode in the transport mix.

[bikkuri bahn]

Osawa Signal Point just outside of Shin Yubari, on the Sekisho Line. I think the freights are shorter on this line than say, the Hakodate/Muroran Line, which is a major route for freights to/from Kanto and Kansai/Western Japan