Davo Dentetsu Posted July 12, 2015 Author Share Posted July 12, 2015 I'm thinking he had a bet on Tiger Woods winning the US Open this year and... yeah. Golf ball hate. Link to comment
bikkuri bahn Posted July 12, 2015 Share Posted July 12, 2015 I am wondering more and more if the new E353 EMU will use an air spring-based tilting mechanism like it's done on the JR West 287 Series. earlier in the thread: , some things to note looking at the specs: -air cushion tilt rather than mechanical tilt used on the E351 -active (full or semi, not specified) suspension on lead cars and green cars Link to comment
bikkuri bahn Posted July 18, 2015 Share Posted July 18, 2015 (edited) Checked the Aug. issue of Tetsudo DJ now on magazine stands, and confirmed the running times of the delivery of the e353 trainset to Matsumoto. As follows: July 25 (Sat.) Zushi 13:44 Ofuna 13:58 Sakuragicho 14:25 Shin Tsurumi 14:58 Shin Tsurumi(dep)18:19 Tachikawa 18:59-19:01 Shiojiri Daimon 23:41-23:50 Matsumoto 0:07 Forumers in the Kanto area may want to check it out. Edited July 18, 2015 by bikkuri bahn 1 Link to comment
bikkuri bahn Posted July 21, 2015 Share Posted July 21, 2015 Apparently another e353 trainset was spotted Monday on the sidings adjacent to the Keikyu Main Line. No pics. Other trainset said to be located on the mountain side of the plant. Face(?) of the trainset said to be different from before. Blogger is deliberately vague. Will there be a in-plant debut to media before the move to Matsumoto Saturday? http://blogs.yahoo.co.jp/e1234567w7/33585853.html Link to comment
bikkuri bahn Posted July 22, 2015 Share Posted July 22, 2015 What the nose is like apparently(note the logo): http://blogs.yahoo.co.jp/e1234567w7/33585991.html Link to comment
ToniBabelony Posted July 22, 2015 Share Posted July 22, 2015 I wonder if Okuyama likes French electro/house: 1 Link to comment
trainsforever8 Posted July 23, 2015 Share Posted July 23, 2015 What the nose is like apparently(note the logo):img_0_m.jpeg http://blogs.yahoo.co.jp/e1234567w7/33585991.html Hmm, I liked the other logo better, I wonder why they decided to change it? Link to comment
katoftw Posted July 23, 2015 Share Posted July 23, 2015 It is a rendering on a non official blog. I would look too much into it. When the isn't much info coming out. Those whom require their 15 minutes of fame start releasing vague blog posts and renderings. Recently Mazda released a new MX-5. The amount of bogus insider information and supposed renderings that pretailed the official Mazda info was huge. Link to comment
miyakoji Posted July 24, 2015 Share Posted July 24, 2015 a random thought to google E353 turned up this video, 12 views currently :) Is that 11 or 12 cars? 2 Link to comment
miyakoji Posted July 24, 2015 Share Posted July 24, 2015 Ah, it's 12 cars Odd scene with that Tokyo 7200 set at the end... 3 Link to comment
Guest ___ Posted July 25, 2015 Share Posted July 25, 2015 I wonder if Okuyama likes French electro/house: I assume that the Daft Punk train would sell out pretty quick. 1 Link to comment
JR 500系 Posted July 25, 2015 Share Posted July 25, 2015 Some more pictures and video from Tetsudo-Shimbun: http://tetsudo-shimbun.com/article/topic/e353.html I like it! It looks much nicer as a real train than in pictures... Next question, a model please? It's also a pity to see the E351 go... It's the Queen of the Chuo line! 2 Link to comment
bikkuri bahn Posted July 25, 2015 Share Posted July 25, 2015 Hopefully will be able to see it in the flesh, so to speak, in a little over three hours. Link to comment
miyakoji Posted July 25, 2015 Share Posted July 25, 2015 Except for the electrics and cab sections, are the limited-express types since the E655 basically the same? This is a lot more E259ish than I expected. Link to comment
JR 500系 Posted July 25, 2015 Share Posted July 25, 2015 Front and rear ends wise they do look amazingly similar to E259... But the colour is kinda cool with white body base colour and a nice blue as its roof... Suffered the same black face as the E259 though... Side windows are edged, which looks kinda cool... The E353 logo is kinda nice screaming futuristic design... No logo of Super Azusa like the E351 though... And the hideous diaphragm between the 8th and 9th car looks horribly far apart.... Link to comment
trainsforever8 Posted July 25, 2015 Share Posted July 25, 2015 I'm surprised it doesn't look like the renderings, but I still like it! Link to comment
kvp Posted July 25, 2015 Share Posted July 25, 2015 (edited) So for me it looks like the new trains look like the door end of a E351, but a bit more longer and differently rounded cab and a new paint. Apart the use of way too much black on the front they look ok. Since we only see end cars with door, does this mean the new sets have doors on both ends? (seems logical, since it's easier to attach two sets if you can connect them anywhere) Edited July 25, 2015 by kvp Link to comment
Guest keio6000 Posted July 25, 2015 Share Posted July 25, 2015 Not great, but not utterly terrible from all angles. But terrible from this one: Link to comment
katoftw Posted July 25, 2015 Share Posted July 25, 2015 Kato, Tomix, MicroAce - take my money! 1 Link to comment
Densha Posted July 25, 2015 Share Posted July 25, 2015 Am I the only one who isn't really amazed by it? The rendering looked quite cool, but the real one is disappointing. It looks like a standard JR East ltd. express EMU with a random cab designed by someone else placed on front. Only the front looks futuristic and the rest of the train is just boring. The enormous air conditioning units also don't help its visual appearance. Maybe I'll have to see it running alone with front lights on to give a final opinion. Link to comment
miyakoji Posted July 25, 2015 Share Posted July 25, 2015 Actually I think it looks better than the artist's renderings :). Seems like it should be the 261 rather than 353. I guess that'll be Super Odoriko replacement. Link to comment
Densha Posted July 25, 2015 Share Posted July 25, 2015 These photos already make it look a lot better: https://twitter.com/rapidtrain223/status/624924085710000128 1 Link to comment
kvp Posted July 26, 2015 Share Posted July 26, 2015 After seeing them on the videos, i think that apart from the black paint and the headlight arrangment, this is a fairly straight industrial design. They wanted the front doors to be relatively flat and square and rounded the front from the standard wide cross section shape down to the square door fames. The cab windows are just following the shape of this rounding. If the front of the cab car would follow the purple line, then it would be a fairly standard modern european streamlined low cab front, but the door frames raise this out to almost flat. This extra area was painted black. ps: i still think they would look better without all that black on the front Link to comment
E6系 Posted July 26, 2015 Share Posted July 26, 2015 Pedestrian. The colour scheme is dated. The air con on Kumoha E353-1 has a dent that is obvious on several different videos. I do not like the thin black horizontal line between windows. I question whether the lights are functional in that configuration. I will probably buy one as I own all things Chuo Main Line west of Takao. Link to comment
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