500 series, 100 series shinkansen cars to Kyoto

[miyakoji]

On December 11th, 500 series end car 521-1 from formation W1 and 100 series end car 122-5003 from formation K54 were loaded on to a ship at Hakata Port.  These will be transported to Kobe, and eventually Kyoto, for display at JR West's new museum opening in spring 2016.

 

http://railf.jp/news/2014/12/12/140000.html

 

http://ats-s.sakura.ne.jp/blog/?p=9770

 

[Densha]

The Japanese always use such lovely Christmas lightning when transporting Shinkansen on trucks.

[cteno4]

It's especially funny as having a train going down the street is something that would catch your attention w.o any lights! Some poor drunk would probably think they had driven onto the train tracks w.o the lights though.

 

I've often knoodled on ways of using fiber optics to do this as I want to model a scene like this eventually. I have all the bits with star train carriages and tomytec carriers, the light strings would be challenging though to pop them thru the car body and have some tread connecting all the fiber ends...

 

Cheers

 

Jeff

[Densha]

Jeff,

 

To finish it off the truck will be moving as well, right?

[cteno4]

On I'll add the moving bus mech into the plot then! ;-p

 

Jeff

[katoftw]

on yahoo, there is someone selling a truck haul single car shinkansen.

[kvp]

 

he light strings would be challenging though to pop them thru the car body and have some tread connecting all the fiber ends...

It would be easier just to mount a bunch of small smd leds in series on some solid wire, then carefully cut the wire behind the leds and finally paint the wire. The end result is a nice string of smd lights that can be mounted on anything. It can be driven with some higher voltage, limited low current power source. (the voltage and the current limit required depends on the number of leds in the chain) Some of the leds that can be seen on H0 scale moving trucks were created this way. An alternative for the wire is the silver based pcb trace repair paint, that can be used to connect glued on leds without soldering. This could be covered over with a non conducting paint layer to hide the traces.

[cteno4]

Problem in n scale with doing lights like this with SMD LEDs is that even 402s are pretty large (6" x 3" x3" wo solder or wire) and not near the scale of some rope lights like this. Magnet wire or flex pcb trace gets very large as well...

 

Fiber works pretty well for something like this and you can pack a lot into a small space. I did a small test with a dozen lights across about 20mm with some fine fiber to mimic small truck lights for decotora. Worked well. Biggest pain is getting the fibers to the LEDs and then packing that into a small space inside a truck. Easy if you just run them a bit long and then run them out the bottom of the truck and have the LEDs under the layout, but this requires like a 6mm hole under the truck... Whole lot easier doing fiber in structures where you have some room!

 

Jeff

[trainsforever8]

It seems I have missed something o.o! Is the 500 series Shinkansen already out of service??? It was my dream to ride it )':

[kvp]

Is the 500 series Shinkansen already out of service?

A few 8 car sets should still be running on kodama services. Only the prototype was retired and the end car stored for displaying.

[bikkuri bahn]

The selection of 500 series services are getting pretty thin.  There are currently only 3 down services diagrammed for the whole Shin-Osaka to Hakata run, and 4 up services.  The remainder are made up primarily of Okayama-Hiroshima and Okayama-Hakata shuttle runs.

 

http://www.jr-odekake.net/shinkansen/knowledge/500kei_okosama/pdf/timetable140315.pdf

[trainsforever8]

This train seriously has one of my favourite designs and sounds too! I love the sound of the engine!