Double header: diesel and electric

[bikkuri bahn]

This is something you don't see very often:

*@Inazawa Station, train #7092, a Minami-Nagaoka-Nagoya Frt. Terminal service via the Hokuriku Line, on the last leg of its run. The DD51 is an Aichi district unit, the EF66 is a sparkling clean unit fresh out from overhaul at Hiroshima MPD, based at Suita.

[Nick_Burman]

This is something you don't see very often:

*@Inazawa Station, train #7092, a Minami-Nagaoka-Nagoya Frt. Terminal service via the Hokuriku Line, on the last leg of its run. The DD51 is an Aichi district unit, the EF66 is a sparkling clean unit fresh out from overhaul at Hiroshima MPD, based at Suita.

 

What's happening here? Motive power shortage? Also notice the stacked empty steel carriers tucked towrds the end of the train - container trains need not be dull...

 

 

Cheers NB

[keitaro]

 

What's happening here? Motive power shortage? Also notice the stacked empty steel carriers tucked towrds the end of the train - container trains need not be dull...

 

Cheers NB

 

this is why they shouldn't phase out dmu's altogether come in handy when theres power crisis's

[stevenh]

I've seen them doing this before at Nishi-Akashi Station west of Kobe with a DE10... not a DD51... I imagine it is for extra motive power, but they didn't need as much as an electric loco offers? Or the train will split somewhere down the line where the DD51 will take half of it elsewhere that has no wires?

 

[bikkuri bahn]

Likely a ferry move, the diesel may have later run out of the terminal on another freight train on a non-electrified line.