Sendai (Kyushu) to Kagoshima-Chūō and back

[Sacto1985]

YouTube user ato5kgyasetaito recently post an interesting video of the Ocean Liner Satsuma limited stop train service on the Kagoshima Main Line between Sendai (Kyushu) and Kagoshima-Chūō Stations:

 

Sendai to Kagoshima-Chūō:

 

 

Kagoshima-Chūō to Sendai:

 

 

Note that despite the presence of full line electrification along the route, the Ocean Liner Satsuma operates with Hisatsu Orange Railway HSOR-100 DMU's built by Niigata Transys, the same DMU's that travel north from Sendai along the Hisatsu Orange Railway route.

[Sacto1985]

ato5kgyasetaito has also posted full-length videos of travel along the Hisatsu Orange Railway between Yatsushrio and Sendai (Kyushu) stations:

 

Izumi to Sendai (Kyushu):

 

 

Izumi to Yatsushiro:

 

 

Note that both videos start at Izumi Station because Izumi Station is a transfer point for all trains.

[Sacto1985]

By the way, I have to ask this question: how come Hisatsu Orange Railway didn't get EMU trains? After all, the entire route from Kagoshima-Chūō north to Yatsushiro is fully electrified, unless the company decided to buy DMU's to keep the operating cost down.