Sendai Kirin Brewery to restart rail shipments

[bikkuri bahn]

My place of employment receives a JR Freight newsletter, and the main article was about the Kirin Brewery in Sendai, which began shipment of products by rail (last year?), but due to damage to the rail line in the earthquake/tsunami, ceased rail operations.  It seems that service will be restored next month.  The article also mentioned that to compensate for severing of supply lines, Kirin Breweries in Hokkaido (Chitose) and in Ibaraki (Toride), shipped products in railway containers to markets in Northern Tohoku.  As both plants do not have railway sidings, the beverages were first loaded on containers hauled by flatbed truck, which were then taken to container terminals for loading on trains.

 

I don't have an online article about above, but this webpage details damage done by the tsunami to the railway (Sendai Rinkai rlwy), which serves the brewery, which is located at the end of the line:

http://www.hotetu.net/senyousen/110405sendairinkaitetudou.html

[rpierce000]

Now this is SERIOUS damage!  Nothing gets between me and a cold Kirin! (Quiet all you Sapporo drinkers!) I started drinking Kirin in 6th grade, no enforced drinking age in Japan in those days, and I am NOT about to give it up for some lousy natural disaster!!!

 

Forget Omocha express, we need Biru Express!

 

Line up thousands of N scale tank cars and we will run a loop line continuously from the factory to the nearest surviving railhead. Of course there may be some loss in transit due to inspection of the contents by the workers to ensure quality.

 

Who is up for a road trip?

 

Bob

[bikkuri bahn]

Nothing gets between me and a cold Kirin!

 

I'm with you on that (Kirin ichiban shibori is my choice).  However an Ebisu is not refused if offered...

[The_Ghan]

This is why I drink beer!

 

Cheers

 

The_Ghan

[linkey]

I can see it now for every few meters there is a power relay to help out with the current going through the tracks for the N scale trains hauling the load, while at those points we would have JNS members inspecting the goods, and picking out the *cough* reject *cough* one out.

 

Mind you I would be happy to do that as I like drinking Kirin Biru