Freight train of JR Musashino Line

[bill937ca]

A interesting sequence of freight trains including some white and green containers that I have not seen until recently. it sounds like a train detector is going off in the background as each train passes.

 

[Nick_Burman]

Some interesting trains there...quite a few ISO containers there (down comes crashing a myth...); the green ones AFAIK are for "dirty dirt" (to use an American term), construction rubble or garbage transportation. The white boxes with lids are for Tohoku earthquake rubble being transported for reprocessing and disposal.

 

 

Cheers NB

[bronzeonion]

That's the first time i've seen a Japanese container train carry shipping containers such as the 'China Shipping' or 'Cosco' ones. I've only ever seen the ones with the small JRF brown containers!

[Densha]

It looks like as if there was a railway crossing previously there...

[bikkuri bahn]

That's the first time i've seen a Japanese container train carry shipping containers such as the 'China Shipping' or 'Cosco' ones. I've only ever seen the ones with the small JRF brown containers!

That train, #8074, is a Morioka~Tokyo Container Port Terminal train, that runs on an irregular/as needed basis (trains numbered in the 8000 range are not regularly scheduled).  I reckon the international containers are hauling merchandise/parts to/from Morioka, which is one of the few large cities in Japan located inland (and that has a traffic generating manufacturing base)  Otherwise, those containers would arrive at the nearest port and be trucked in.

[Nick_Burman]

(trains numbered in the 8000 range are not regularly scheduled)

If they aren't scheduled, how does JRF fit them into the regular flow of traffic? Are the trains charted onto the daia and just not run or what?

 

Cheers NB

[Densha]

My guess, this is how we do it in the Netherlands, there are train paths reserved for freight (or other things like movements between depots). When they are not used they are just empty but when a freight train needs a path there is one available without disrupting the scheduled services. So actually they are scheduled but sometimes just not used.

[bikkuri bahn]

My guess, this is how we do it in the Netherlands, there are train paths reserved for freight (or other things like movements between depots). When they are not used they are just empty but when a freight train needs a path there is one available without disrupting the scheduled services. So actually they are scheduled but sometimes just not used.

Exactly.  They are allocated pathings. 

[Nick_Burman]

Exactly.  They are allocated pathings. 

Charles Smalls' "hypothetical trains", as described in "Rails to the Rising Sun"...

 

 

Cheers NB