Kintetsu Yoro Line

[Nick_Burman]

http://tsushima-keibendo.a.la9.jp/kintetsu/yourou/yourou1.html

 

Today the Yoro Railway.

 

Cheers NB

[westfalen]

I'm planning a ride on the Yoro Railway during a trip a friend and I are planning for later this year.

 

I think we'll be a bit late to see the freight trains though.

[bikkuri bahn]

Yes, too bad the freights are long gone.  The Yoro Railway is highly recommended though- they still use proper original Kintetsu rolling stock rather than horrid Tokyu castoffs from Kanto.  Make sure to get off at Yoro Station, roughly the mid point on the railway- very nice atmosphere and also a loop station on a single track line, it's always fun and relaxing to see the trains pass.

[westfalen]

We are planning to make our way from Kansai Airport to Ogaki via the JR Kansai Mainline and the Yoro Railway, a bit of a round about way but will get me another couple of lines coloured in in my railway atlas.

[ToniBabelony]

Aah, the Yoro line. I'll probably visit it at some day, since a friend's fiancée lives along the line. Too bad the freight is gone indeed, as with many many small railways.

[Nick_Burman]

 horrid Tokyu castoffs from Kanto. 

 

To each of his his/her own taste. The older Kintetsu stock is very nice, especially the local service stock which is still in use (or has been sent to Kintetsu's third-sector subsidiaries), they look a bit like raccoons... however I do like the Tokyu trains, some better than others. But then I have reasons for that, as Tokyu stock tends to resemble some trains used here in Brazil (especially the infamous SOREFAME/ACEC MU sets used around greater São Paulo) or US subway equipment (Tokyu is the only railway in the world which managed to congregate in its tracks equipment from Philadelphia, Boston and NYC... :grin ). For me, using cast-off JNR stuff (Chichibu...) is a lack of good taste in trains...

 

Abs NB

Edited July 17, 2013 by Nick_Burman

[bikkuri bahn]

Let me clarify- I like Tokyu Railcar stock up to the 8500 series (i.e. corrugated ss stock license from Budd Corp.) but stuff after that just doesn't do much for me.  Well, maybe the 8090 is acceptable (despite having the "beaded" body shell design) as it still has the "classic" Tokyu chopper control sound.

[Nick_Burman]

In my case, Tokyu series 5000 ("Green Frogs"), 5200 ("Silver Frogs"), 6000 (looks like NYCTA equipment), 7000 (resembles the SEPTA "Almond Joys" used on the Market-Frankford El - and the aforementioned Brazilian trains) and 7200 (looks like Boston Orange Line trains - and, now that I remember it, some suburban trains in Rio, built in Japan and delivered through Marubeni). The sad thing is that currently there are no models of these trains readily available - Green Max discontinued their kits for the 5000, 5200 and 7000 (I wonder if they'll ever reissue them...). Not only that but their kit for the 7000 lacked the outboard brake discs which make these trains interesting (from a technical point of view). It seems that my putative modern-era private line will have to source equipment from elsewhere...

 

 

Cheers NB

[ToniBabelony]

The thing is with the Green Frog is that they are actually quite in abundance as An Rail Next trains. Though not in Tōkyū livery, but as various private railway liveries: http://homepage1.nifty.com/akaidensya/anrail2.htm The 7000 has been released by Tomytec as a collectible from Tōkyū stores. That leaves only the odd 5200 as not released as a finished model.

[Nick_Burman]

The thing is with the Green Frog is that they are actually quite in abundance as An Rail Next trains. Though not in Tōkyū livery, but as various private railway liveries: http://homepage1.nifty.com/akaidensya/anrail2.htm The 7000 has been released by Tomytec as a collectible from Tōkyū stores. That leaves only the odd 5200 as not released as a finished model.

 

Toni,

 

Thanks for the An Rail link, they have plenty of other interesting stuff other than the Green Frogs. That Towada car is very pretty.

 

The problem about that 7000 is that, as I've said, my railway is just an idea. By the time I decide (and if I decide...) to act on it, those 7000s might be gone. And it's very easy to shop at Tokyu stores from Brazil...

 

 

Cheers NB