Round the circle with the "Shiojiri Tram"

[Nick_Burman]

 

 

To celebrate the anniversary of Shiojiri station, JR East ran a pair of special trains "around the circle" through the cut-off tunnel on the Chuo line using the Series 123 train used on the Tatsuno - Shiojiri shuttle. These ran Shiojiri - (tunnel) - Okawa - Tatsuno - Shiojiri and v.v., Okawa - Tatsuno - Shiojiri being done on the Old Chuo Line. The videos show the side view...presumably because cab window must have been mobbed...

 

Cheers NB

[Mudkip Orange]

Didn't realize the cutoff tunnel had only been there since '83.