E6 testing on conventional lines in July

[bikkuri bahn]

*Recommended to view beginning from 8:18 (more light) and especially 12:18 under bright early morning skies (return trip to Sendai)

[miyakoji]

I wonder how much they considered the Mini-Shinkansen configuration for sections of the Hokuriku Shinkansen line as well as the others that will get the gauge-change trains.  Do the Yamagata and Akita Shinkansen lines have many tunnels?  Although, the loading gauge of the Mini-Shinkansens and the gauge-change rolling stock should be about the same, right?

 

This YT uploader tobirabito has some impressive zenmen tenbou videos, including at least two of JR Hokkaido limited express services that are over 3 hours long!

[Guest Closed Account 1]

Those fairings around the trucks are very evident.

[disturbman]

What about the partially (?) blind car?

[Densha]

That's the first footage of the E6 I've seen at daytime. It looks really funny on those local lines, it's hyper modern Shinkansen design just doesn't fit those lines. In that way the E3 looks a bit more like a traditional express train so looks less wrong in my opinion.

[bikkuri bahn]

Yes, there is a bit of a thoroughbred-stuck-in-a-pony-ride-pen vibe to the scenes.

[cteno4]

Nice videos though!

 

Jeff

[JR 500系]

Nice video of the brand new E6 in action! Didnt know it was a 7-car set! i thought the E6 will be used to replace the current E3 Komachi?

[keitaro]

yes the e6 is getting close. i wonder when kato will do the e6 for us. couldn't be too hard to run from the e5 with the obvious modifications.

 

Maybe they are waiting on an official set formation to run from.

[linkey]

yes the e6 is getting close. i wonder when kato will do the e6 for us. couldn't be too hard to run from the e5 with the obvious modifications.

 

Maybe they are waiting on an official set formation to run from.

 

 

 

KATO will do the same in what they did when the E5 came out, so expect the E6 model to be out in late March early April I would say. Which means the tooling for the E6 should be nearly ready and the prototype will be in the KATO marketing department.

 

Yes, I am looking forward for this unit to come out and will be ordering one for sure so it can run with the E5 being prototypical.

[Mudkip Orange]

This looks like pretty much every train layout ever, where you have a rural/suburban line - maybe even singletrack - and then hey, look Shinkansens!

 

Nice of JR to retroactively provide a prototype for what everyone was already doing.