Memories of Akihasen Shizuoka tetsudo

[bill937ca]

An interesting blog article with plenty of photos of a small electric tram line with trams, a small freight motor and a line that runs along small town streets and through the countryside in 1955.

 

http://drfc-ob.com/wp/?p=22074

[marknewton]

I love the little box motor on its 21E truck, and the four-wheel trailer cars. Interesting to see hook drawgear and buffers being used so late in the day.

 

Thanks for that link, Bill.

 

Cheers,

 

Mark.

[westfalen]

I think this is the first time I've seen trams with buffers.

[bill937ca]

I think this is the first time I've seen trams with buffers.

 

Japanese tramways before the general expansion of the road system would sometimes tow small two axle freight cars with local goods.

Edited January 18, 2013 by bill937ca

[Nick_Burman]

I love the little box motor on its 21E truck, and the four-wheel trailer cars. Interesting to see hook drawgear and buffers being used so late in the day.

 

Thanks for that link, Bill.

 

Cheers,

 

Mark.

 

When the Akiba line was converted from 762mm gauge in the 1920's, the JNR coupler conversion was still a few years in the future... according to what I could fish from the translation, despite the couplers the line did not interchange cars with the JNR (an oddity shared with the Akiu Railway in Akita) because the line could not take the weight of JNR freight rolling stock (!!!).

 

Cheers NB

[marknewton]

Rather light track then, Nick!

 

This box motor features in an article published in J-train Volume 31 of Autumn 2008. It was still in service then, hauling a 4-wheel open/ballast wagon. It's had a few changes since 1955. The fender has been removed, the headlight has been relocated to the roof, and the trolleypoles have ben replaced by a pantograph. The ballast wagon has hook drawgear at one end, and a knuckle coupler at the other. 

 

Cheers,

 

Mark.