Odakyu Shinjuku->Hakone Yumoto nice video

[Guest keio6000]

I like train front-view videos on youtube, but many of them are of quite variable quality.

 

If you do a youtube  search on "小田急小田原線　前面展望映像　新宿→箱根湯本　特急ロマンスカー7000形LSE", you will find a very nice daytime video taken from the front of a now classic Romancecar which really highlights the entirety of the Shinjuku to Hakone Yumoto Odakyu line very well.  Technically, it's about as good as these videos get on youtube:

 

- Good weather

- High Def (looks great on my 30" monitor in full screen)

- Minimum of passenger noise

- Minimum of reflections or train frame getting in the way.

- clearly audible announcements

- Shows most OER rolling stock (I'm not sure if there was a 50000 VSE though)

- no cuts.

 

Particularly interesting in this video are the still under construction underground sections about 6 minutes in.  Only in Japan can underground sections be so perfectly clean, even if newly built!

 

This video has inspired me to get a MicroAce Odakyu 8000 series (regular blue stripe single arm panto version).  I haven't gotten it yet, but will soon and it will be a nice stablemate to my 4000 (5200) series set.

 

There is also a video of the return to shinjuku there, though that one is equally good technically, but the clouds had rolled in.

 

Also, can somebody explain to me why it stops at Mukogaoka-Yuen and not the larger Noborito?

Edited September 8, 2013 by keio6000

[ToniBabelony]

I presume you mean these videos? ;)

 

Shinjuku -> Hakone-Yūmoto

(Blasting through my hood 0:31:50)

 

Hakone-Yūmoto -> Shinjuku

(Blasting through my hood 0:55:13 and passing a VSE at 1:09:15)

 

The train stops at Mukōgaoka-Yūen very briefly (quickly opening the doors for a few seconds) because it probably fits better in the time table, plus the block in front is occupied by probably a kind of Express service. In the Odawara direction, before Noborito (Izumi-Tamagawa), the Romance Car took over a local train which has to wait a long time if the 'Hakone' were to halt at Noborito (a single-track station in the Odawara direction). This would hinder the Rapid Express behind the Local as well, causing a congestion on this extremely busy section. On the return trip the 'Hakone' doesn't halt at Mukōgaoka-Yūen because Noborito allows a takeover of the local track.

 

The more I travel Odakyū, the more I start to like this company. I now use the section between Sagamiōno and Shin-Yūrigaoka a few times a week.

Edited September 8, 2013 by Toni Babelony

[Sacto1985]

Oh good--the YouTube videos shown here were made after the switch to underground operation through the Shimo-Kitazawa neighborhood.

[Guest keio6000]

Tony, my old hood (well, not where I lived, but where I rented a house for two summers) was at 4:11-4:20 thereabouts - Yoyogi Hachiman, which to my eye is a great place to live.. walking distance to shibuya and a short ride to shinjuku and plenty of train spotting fun, to say nothing of Yoyogi Park, plus access to both metro and odakyu.

 

Odakyu is a nice system, though it is let down a bit by the boring 4-track stretch with identical stations a few west of there and increasingly dull commuter rolling stock - but on the latter point, what operator is not guilty these days?

 

Plus, they had the ugliest monorail ever which is a plus, doubly so since the route was ludicrously short.  This thing was just awesome:

 

Probably sold by this guy, from lockheed:

 

[miyakoji]

quite a coincidence, I just found those videos by odakyuusenn this morning, watched one with breakfast . Another user, icihiroro, has one recorded at night, it looks pretty cool.

 

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ip4ctSqOAkE