Curious, can anyone tell what line this image is on?

[DanMacK]

Does anyone know where this image was taken?  I can't remember now where I found it, but it's the exact image I'm looking for for one of the stations on my T-gauge branchline.  I'm just curious as to where it is?  I seem to recall the buildings being a copper mine?  I might be wrong.  Any assistance is appreciated.

 

Regards,

Dan

[keitaro]

i seen that before as well although i though it was similar to another place that used to be silk factories ... can't remember right now.

 

though this site may be a good place to look or get more ideas from

 

http://blogs.yahoo.co.jp/syumatsunotabibito/folder/1509709.html?m=lc&p=6

http://translate.google.com.au/translate?hl=en&langpair=ja%7Cen&u=http://haikyo.crap.jp/a/1.html

 

don't have time to look my self figured i'd post this as i have some links to these kinds of blogs.

[ToniBabelony]

Google image search to the rescue!

 

http://ameblo.jp/nemurineko3/entry-10505926828.html

 

You can drag a photo into the browser @ https://www.google.com/imghp? and it will search the intarwebs for that specific picture (and related) automagically! Some truly amazing software workings from big brother Google.

[bikkuri bahn]

Ashio Honzan Station, on the then JNR Ashio Line.

 

This video from 1979 has a shot taken from the top of that rocky hill, at the beginning:

 

A freight train crossing the bridge in 1985:

http://rail.hobidas.com/kokutetsu/archives/2009/12/post_1026.html

[Guest ___]

IDK what's more amazing, the Google search-ability based on a photo or finding a 20 year old video of the station based on an obscure shot on YouTube.

[DanMacK]

Thanks for everything!  I didnt know about the picture search.  VERY cool!  Those links are pretty neat too, especially the abandoned places one.

[Densha]

IDK what's more amazing, the Google search-ability based on a photo or finding a 20 year old video of the station based on an obscure shot on YouTube.

I'm having more sci-fi experiences in the few past years than I ever could imagine, technology really is amazing these days.

[Guest ___]

IDK what's more amazing, the Google search-ability based on a photo or finding a 20 year old video of the station based on an obscure shot on YouTube.

I'm having more sci-fi experiences in the few past years than I ever could imagine, technology really is amazing these days.

 

IDK, the older I get (and I'm only 37) the more and more this technology is starting to scare me. I think Stephen Hawking said it best when it comes to technology reaching a level that it destroys mankind.

[disturbman]

I'm having more sci-fi experiences in the few past years than I ever could imagine, technology really is amazing these days.

 

Either that or we are getting old and can't keep up anymore. 

 

But, yeah, I agree. I actually think this feeling started (for me) when I saw bands play with their Iphones instead of real instruments. Since then, I have been more and more amazed by technology.

[Densha]

@Shashinka & disturbman

I'm even younger than you and I know exactly what you mean. Just start with the simple depending on Twitter and Facebook with so many things, I really can't stand even seeing Twitter links in the corner of ads on television. Just 5-6 years ago most things were okay with me (Twitter and Facebook were almost non-existent) but even though we all knew it was coming I'm sure it will get out of hand eventually, in a wider sense of the word. And that's just me talking about that you don't need a computer for every single task and that I don't really need a lot more devices to make my life easier than exist at the moment, and there already exist a lot I don't need.

I personally can keep up with it, but I don't like technology intruding in my whole life. (other examples: all my data on our health being stored at servers that get easily hacked, etc.)

Edit: Also, today trains also get a lot of electronics and software installed, but it often makes the performance of the trains only worse because there's so often something wrong with it. Another example of things we are not sure if needed.

 

Though I'm getting slightly off-topic here.

That railway line looks nice.

^^;

[Guest ___]

It's not even so much an issue of age. I really am starting to realize that technology is meant to make life easier, but it's not suppose to replace it.

 

I'm whoring myself out part-time selling Ralph Lauren at Macy's. (I love the brand and the discount even more on it) The other day there was a mother with her kid who was young enough that had to be kept in a stroller. While I was assisting her with a Polo sale, her son was playing on her iPhone. The volume was way too loud, so mommy turned down the sound, kid then turned it back up. she threw the mute switch on the iPhone, and he reversed it. She shut down the app, and he relaunched it. she hard-powered down the phone after force quitting the app. He powered it back up and relaunched. The kid was well under 2 yrs old. The reminded me of my cousin Charlie concurring the original Super Mario Bros. on an original NES when he was three.

 

An hour later, I had a woman from Brazil w/ her grand daughter and husband. The grand daughter was a 4th grader and she was bored as her grandfather was trying on a brushed RL polo and grandma wondered off to look at calones. I wasn't going to leave grandpa so I waited outside. As the 4th grader complained, I told her she should be glad to have that Android phone to play with as when I was her age, back in the 80's we didn't have smart phones. She freaked out. I went on to tell her cellphones were not main stream, until 15 years ago, that there was no internet, and her parents would have been praising their first color TV back in the 70's. Her reply was if she would have shot herself having to live in the stone age. I prompted informed her that her children are going to say the same thing to her in another 15 or 20 years, and that all that tech today is going to look juristic to them.

 

A few minuets later grandparents were ready to check out when grandma asked me which was a better savings, using the 20% coupon on a $200 sale or the $20 off.  I had the total savings down and recited to grandmother before the kid could get her Android phone's calculator app to launch. Needles to say grandparents laughed. You should see what happens when the power goes out at a 7-11 and the clerk can't break a ten.

 

I guess, where I'm going with this trite is that, all this technology is great, but an over dependance on it, will just leave people slow, and strung out like junkies when they have go deal with tech withdrawal. I've said it beforehand will say it again, mankind need not worry about global warming, a meteor, terrorist attack, zombie apocalypse, if you really want to end the world, just pull the plug and watch it all go down the drain.

[Densha]

You're so right, Shashinka.

[cteno4]

I agree there is a vast over reliance on technology. While most of it is great and makes life better, much of it is wayyy overused and much is just not really useful, but is pushed on society as being necessary when it ain't.

 

While smart phones are fun and useful, we can get along w/o them nooo problem, it's all perceived they change our lives and are necessary to live a successful life. I see most around me that use them heavily just being more harried and detached from their environment, not necessarily more productive or smarter.

 

The one thing that has not changed is the human -- that takes thousands of years of evolution to make tiny changes. Technology itself only speaks to the conscious, objective mind. This is a very slow and serial beast, so accelerating technology by itself actually just bogs down the conscious mind. It's how the technology is applied and the content/message delivered that can reach past this to the intuitive, subconscious mind to have some real impact on the human.

 

I see this al the time in my work with technology. Clients are so focused on the technology and keeping up with the jones, they completely forget about their content and the actual human they are trying to get it to. The only thing they see is the technology itself and the visitor in terms of technology in current society. I've had all my home run exhibits as concepts that ended up backing way way off on the use of the technology as the focus to making the content being the focus in very direct human terms that is intuitive to all. The funny thing is they used the same technology to function, just in a different approach. The other big thing is this approach usually then gets full attention of the conscious mind as well.

 

I have some faith that the human part will revolt from being fire hosed in the conscious mind with shear technology and information and crave and seak out the things that go to the human in us. Again I've seen this in the exhibits with them holding folks for long periods that just don't happen in the usual tech centered world we live in. Visit many science and tech museums now and watch how long folks spend at any one thing, you can measure it in a few seconds. They hit two buttons and move on -- nothing can be delivered that way.

 

Social media is the same as well. While there are great aspects of what it can be used for, the way its been implemented and inserted into our modern culture again focuses on the technology (with the facade of being about people) not the content/human.

 

Jeff