Consist end car

[Dani]

I would like to know if all compositions of freight trains need that special end car I saw in this video, and the reason. I see it's a DE10 locomotive with some KOKI107 cars, and a black small end car that I'm not able to identify.

 

It's just for an assistant person at the end of the composition when doing manoeuvres?

Is it needed just in manoeuvres or also for normal running?

Is it to have a rear light that koki107 haven't?

 

 

Thanks in advance!

Dani.

[Densha]

That's a Yo8000 (ヨ8000) brake van / caboose. If I'm correct, it's usually used for extra braking when a locomotive is pulling a train and the other cars don't have brakes themselves. I would guess the container cars do have brakes though, so I don't really know why it's here.

[gmat]

Around the Tokyo area, I've never seen any freight trains passing through Omiya Station or switching at the Tokyo Freight Terminal in Oi Ward using that kind of end car. At the Freight Terminal, sometimes there will be a rider standing at the end flat car.

 

Best wishes,.

Grant

[ToniBabelony]

These cars were on a transfer run from the factory (Nippon Sharyo) to another destination. For some trains, an extra brake van is used for monitoring the consist, but not for braking in particular. This brake van can also function as a cab car for reverse moves and as a quick backup for manual point switching movements.

[miyakoji]

As Toni said these are new, being transported to some JR Freight depot somewhere from Nippon Sharyo's factory. In the title of the video you can see 甲種輸送, koushu yusou. I'm not sure exactly what qualifies as this kind of move, but movements to or from a factory always seem to be classified as this.

[Sacto1985]

I wonder would that end car offering extra braking will be useful for JR Freight trains going westbound on the "Senohachi" grade between Seno and Saijō Stations on the San'yō Main Line east of Hiroshima.

[ToniBabelony]

I wonder would that end car offering extra braking will be useful for JR Freight trains going westbound on the "Senohachi" grade between Seno and Saijō Stations on the San'yō Main Line east of Hiroshima.

 

Naw, all trains have continuous braking, so an extra brake van wouldn't do any extra good.

[Ochanomizu]

This video produce error on my system.