Red brick Yamanote Line train

[railsquid]

A Yamanote Line train in red-brick wrapping livery will start running soon to celebrate the 100th anniversary of Tokyo Station. Unusually it's decorated on the inside as well with scenes from the station.

 

(No link yet, it was on the TV news just now).

[railsquid]

Here's a report in Japanese from the Hokkaido Shinbun with a picture and one from the Yomiuri with a small diagram of each car.

[Sacto1985]

Oh, you mean this?

 

[railsquid]

Yup.

[Guest keio6000]

ah, so "let's paint the yamanote line orange" while perfectly good orange chuo line trains also at tokyo station remain unadorned.

 

have they really thought this through?

 

or if the color is not orange but brown, is it in tribute to tokyo station or to the old brown trains that pretty much all lines used to have way back when?

 

they should have at least kept an green stripe on it.

[kvp]

That looks like JGR brown to me. Not to mention that back then, you actually had to read the destination sign to know which train went where.

[bikkuri bahn]

@Yoyogi

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qu3AqPW8x4Q