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Photos of the Month
July 2005
2114, originally a Hanshin type 5231 car, itselfrebuilt with a new body from Nankai’s type 1201, is seen at Fukuiguchi on 24th May 1998. It was one of fourteen such cars operated by Keifuku...
Photos of the Month
June 2005
D51 498 at Takasaki station with a rake of 12 series coaches on a driver-training run prior to summer steam operations.
Photo taken on August 12th 2004 by Dave Fossett
JR East's E491 series "East i_E"...
Photos of the Month
May 2005
Type 0 and 100 series shinkansen cars can be seen under maintenance at JR Tokai’s workshops at Hamamatsu while an open day was taking place . The original 0 series cars started operation in...
Photos of the Month
April 2005
A Tobu Railway 'Spacia' Limited Express train approaching Tobu's terminal at Asakusa, Tokyo. The signals are of a new type using LEDs for the signal lights. Please note that these new signals do not...
Photos of the Month
March 2005
A 2'6" (762 mm) gauge electric locomotive of the Kurobe Canyon Railway at its line
end Keyakidaira station deep in a mountain. Its origin dates back to an
industrial railway built in 1926 to transport materials...
Photos of the Month
February 2005
This month there's a contrast between new an old.
Fukui Railway locomotive, at Nishi-Takefu, 21. Sept. 2003.
Locos like this are still used for shunting MU cars around the workshops of the many private railways of...
Photos of the Month
January 2005
An old ex-JNR freight car, presumably a Wamu type, now standing at Yubari (Hokkaido) now used as a storage shed. 11. September 2004
Cassiopeia sleeper at Ueno station, ready to leave for Sapporo. The photo...
Photos of the Month
December 2004
This month we will have a look at a few ferry operations that have a link with Meitetsu, Nagoya's major private railway
Isewan Ferry at Morozaki. Isewan operates two ferry routes, between Toba and
Morozaki (southern...