JNR 103 series prototype

[Densha]

I think that if I'm correct this is the prototype of the 103 series:

http://www.103hp.net/Mc2-1201.htm

[bikkuri bahn]

I think that if I'm correct this is the prototype of the 103 series:

http://www.103hp.net/Mc2-1201.htm

Actually that's a later mark, built for through running on the Tozai Subway Line (hence the centerline door on the front) and later, the Joban Line and Narita Line.

 

The predecessor of the 103 series was the 101 series, the first batch which was called the Moha 90000 series, before JNR changed its numbering system.

[Densha]

Do you know why it has such a livery? On some pictures I saw only two cars painted in that yellow livery with different front designs. I thought it would have been a prototype because of that and because it was numbered in the 102 series, which doesn't exist as far as I know.

[miyakoji]

On this page http://www1.parkcity.ne.jp/steiner/ec/ec.html the fourth image is the one in your link.  I think it was used to move other trains around at the Omiya workshop (now called Kamakura Depot).  The livery might be something they did there.

 

Other images of the 103-1200:

http://www.2427junction.com/tozai103syaryo.html

http://www.2427junction.com/tozai1200haisya.html

http://www.2427junction.com/tozai1201haisya.html

this website is the "Tozai Line News" http://www.2427junction.com/tozainews.html

[Densha]

Lol what is that real life 103 series B-train shorty? (クモハ100-802) http://www1.parkcity.ne.jp/steiner/ec/NAZO.jpg

Edited June 29, 2013 by Densha

[miyakoji]

Lol what is that real life 103 series B-train shorty? (クモハ100-802) http://www1.parkcity.ne.jp/steiner/ec/NAZO.jpg

I didn't even notice that.  If I'm reading it correctly, he doesn't know either.  He writes that he thinks it's not for moving other trains in the yard.  The photo is at JR East's Oi Depot.

[Minelayer]

I miss the 115 Musashino.

[Minelayer]

I noticed in one of the links in which they were dismantling trains that they left the trucks/wheels alone. Do they get reused or are they take apart in a different manner?

[miyakoji]

I noticed in one of the links in which they were dismantling trains that they left the trucks/wheels alone. Do they get reused or are they take apart in a different manner?

That's a good question.  I think in some cases, they are reused.  For example, some of JR Shikoku's trains have reused trucks.  And the KIHA37, of which only 5 were made, had used trucks, transmissions, and other parts.