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What is the maintenance and/or break down loco of the Kyushu Shinkansen


mamochan

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I am planning on buying "Sakura swallow" Series 800 Kyushu Shinkansen very shortly but was curious which loco would be the maintenance loco? kind of like Microace's J.N.R. 2003

 

Although, I honestly am not sure how one of these locomotives would connect to the 800 series in the first place.  I am kind of presuming that the loco exists since the train can't have a 100% perfect reliability, or can it?

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The removable nose of the 800 would conceal an emergency coupler like other Shinkansen types but I can't remember seeing any photos of a loco. It's possible that a failed train could be towed, or pushed, off the section by another train which would be more logical anyway than waiting for a rescue loco to come from somewhere.

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