miyakoji Posted March 21, 2015 Author Share Posted March 21, 2015 Yeah that part was cool, they also explained what it was, maybe some railfans-in-the-making will see that, do the appropriate googling, and wind up here :) Link to comment
JR 500系 Posted March 22, 2015 Share Posted March 22, 2015 Thank you for sharing Dabsan! Will be nice to watch! :) Come to think about it. for the episodes of Train Cruises, the following were covered: 1) Train Cruise Episode 1 - A century-old railway in Kyushu 2) Train Cruise Episode 2- Journey to highland hot spring resorts Beppu 3) Train Cruise Episode 3- Exciting Rail Attractions on a 400km Journey Takayama/ Nagoya 4) Train Cruise Episode 4 - A Fall Trip from Kyoto to the Japan Sea 5) Train Cruise Episode 5 - A heart-warming journey through the Tohoku winter Akita 6) Train Cruise Episode 6 - Shikoku Railroad Wonderland (Part 1) 7) Train Cruise Episode 7 - Shikoku Railroad Wonderland (Part 2) 8) Train Cruise Episode 8 - Kyushu Aso 9) Train Cruise Episode 9 - Old Fashioned Rail Journey around Lake Biwa 10) Train Cruise 10 - Autumn Delights in Tohoku and Shin-Etsu 11) Train Cruise Episode 11 - Japanese Culture along the Inland Sea Hiroshima/ Yamaguchi So, why no Hokkaido? :) Link to comment
katoftw Posted March 22, 2015 Share Posted March 22, 2015 (edited) They'll get there in the end I think. Hokkaido I guess is a little geographical challenged when it comes to trains that aren't regular boring commuter trains all being in a small area close by or parallel lines to choose from. Probably a bit like Shikoku. Probably do the whole island in 1.5 episodes also. It will be interesting to see what they do next. Toyoma/Kurobe/Hokuriku Shinkansen? Hokkaido? Saga/Nagasaki? Somewhere in mid coastline Tohoku? Enoshima/Hakone/Izu/ Shizuoka? Edited March 22, 2015 by katoftw Link to comment
JR 500系 Posted March 22, 2015 Share Posted March 22, 2015 The Japanese are really hyped about the recently launched Hokuriku Shinkansen, so perhaps an episode on Toyama, Tateyama Route perhaps? combined with Kanazawa will be nice, using the Hokuriku shinkansen as a background and Toyama also has many trams... Also, the Enoden-Shonan Monorail-Hakone makes quite a good episode too, featuring Enoden, an inverted monorail and also Odakyu Romance Cars. Should be mighty interesting if you ask me ~ 1 Link to comment
Sacto1985 Posted March 22, 2015 Share Posted March 22, 2015 (edited) I would love to see a Train Cruise episode focused around the Hokuriku region, especially the trains going to the Noto Peninsula and the trains going south from Itoigawa and Toyama (the train from Itoigawa to Minami-Otari on the Ōito Line goes through some really spectacular mountain scenery, as you can see from this video taken back in October 2011 from a KiHa 120 DMU, which had just been introduced on this part of the line at the time): Edited March 22, 2015 by Sacto1985 1 Link to comment
Ken Ford Posted March 22, 2015 Share Posted March 22, 2015 I managed to accidentally record the most recent episode with the Hiroshima trams and the Nishikigawa line. I need to quit watching this stuff - I keep finding lines that would be great to model! 1 Link to comment
dabsan Posted March 23, 2015 Share Posted March 23, 2015 I managed to accidentally record the most recent episode with the Hiroshima trams and the Nishikigawa line. I need to quit watching this stuff - I keep finding lines that would be great to model! Hi Ken, any chance of a share of your recording via Dropbox or Google Drive ? My share of it on here was pretty low quality. Or does anyone else have a higher quality recording to share? Many Thanks Darren :) Link to comment
LeeC22 Posted March 23, 2015 Share Posted March 23, 2015 @dabsan: I've got it recorded, but with you sharing it, I didn't bother to upload. If you want me to upload it, it's no problem. Link to comment
utrainia Posted March 23, 2015 Share Posted March 23, 2015 Hi Lee, I for one would like a copy in HD :) Link to comment
Ken Ford Posted March 23, 2015 Share Posted March 23, 2015 Sadly I don't have a way of pulling it off my DVR, otherwise I'd be happy to share. Link to comment
LeeC22 Posted March 23, 2015 Share Posted March 23, 2015 Here you go: https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B7LFvItVrwd0blRZRW1QU3BMYTg/view?usp=sharing Ken, it's okay, I usually share because I have an Enigma2 based satellite box. It's a case of ftp to the box, copy the files, trim them, convert them, and upload... nice and easy. 4 Link to comment
LeeC22 Posted March 24, 2015 Share Posted March 24, 2015 No problem... sorry it was late going up. I was just about to do it on Saturday and got the notification about dabsan posting that he had uploaded it, so I didn't do it. Link to comment
dabsan Posted March 24, 2015 Share Posted March 24, 2015 (edited) No problem... sorry it was late going up. I was just about to do it on Saturday and got the notification about dabsan posting that he had uploaded it, so I didn't do it. Thank you Lee, your copy of the show is very good quality. Many thanks for sharing Edited March 24, 2015 by dabsan Link to comment
LeeC22 Posted March 26, 2015 Share Posted March 26, 2015 Just a bit of a heads up for anyone that watches NHK World, the schedule for most of the programmes seems to be changing next week... 1 Link to comment
miyakoji Posted March 29, 2015 Author Share Posted March 29, 2015 It looks like there will be a rerun in April, the episode about the Hisatsu Line. Was this the first episode? 5th of April, 0:10 / 6:10 / 11:10 / 18:10 UTC http://www3.nhk.or.jp/nhkworld/english/tv/special/201504.html 1 Link to comment
katoftw Posted March 29, 2015 Share Posted March 29, 2015 Yes. That was the first episode. Link to comment
LeeC22 Posted March 29, 2015 Share Posted March 29, 2015 Excellent... I hope that's a sign that they might run Episode 2 as well so I can complete my collection. :D Link to comment
Sacto1985 Posted March 29, 2015 Share Posted March 29, 2015 l for one would love to see them do a Train Cruise episode around Shimane and western Tottori Prefectures. I want to see the Izumo Orochi excursion train that runs from Izumoshi east to Shinji on the San'in Main Line, then down the Kisuki Line all the way to Bingo-Ochiai. 1 Link to comment
miyakoji Posted March 29, 2015 Author Share Posted March 29, 2015 I want to see the Izumo Orochi excursion train that runs from Izumoshi east to Shinji on the San'in Main Line, then down the Kisuki Line all the way to Bingo-Ochiai. I'd like a model of this thing. Link to comment
LeeC22 Posted April 5, 2015 Share Posted April 5, 2015 Okay... as a special Easter treat, I stayed up until it had finished recording, so I could convert and upload it for you all to watch. https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B7LFvItVrwd0ODVFYmVHX2s1azA/view?usp=sharing At about 40 seconds in, there is a "through the front window" shot, which is a bit jerky. Not sure why because I've converted it the same way as all the others. It's not in the recorded version, so it must be an encoding issue. I haven't checked the whole episode yet though... I need sleep now. If anyone watches the whole thing and spots any more problems, let me know and I'll try a different converter. Hopefully, it will be just that few seconds... although it will still annoy the heck out of me, I like things to be right. :( 1 Link to comment
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