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Photos of the Month
May 2004
EF64 1011 heads a container and tank train south through Omiya station on 26 February 2004. This loco has been repainted in the revised JR-Freight livery applied to EF64-1000 class locomotives undergoing life extension...
Photos of the Month
April 2004
An E217 series EMU approaches Higashi-Totsuka station on a Yokosuka Line service from Zushi to Chiba.
June 2003, by Dave Fossett.
Snaking into Shinjuku station, one of the busiest stations in Japan, is a 201 series...
Photos of the Month
March 2004
JR Hokkaido limited-express KiHa 183 at Furano Station on a ‘rinji’ special working. This type had entered service twenty years before it is shown on 5th August 2000, by Anthony Robins.
Two of the seventeen...
Photos of the Month
February 2004
A 700 series bullet train zips through rustic scenery in front of Mt. Fuji strangely capped with a winter cloud, between Mishima and Shin-Fuji on the Tokaido Shinkansen.
January 2004, by Hiroshi Naito.
A Tobu Railway...
Photos of the Month
January 2004
Kurobe Canyon Railway's center-cab loco EDS13, 15.2tons 140 kW, stands in a siding at Unazuki Onsen station. Built in 1957 by Hitachi, the loco has been serving this 762 mm gauge line running along...
Photos of the Month
December 2003
November 2000 was a time for changeover on Toyotetsu’s Atsumi Line between Toyohashi and Tahara. Typically using second-hand EMUs, the relatively briefly used ex-Meitetsu 7300s (right) were being replaced by ex-Tokyu sets (left). The...
Photos of the Month
November 2003
Electric locomotive EF6629 heads a container train westward through Ofuna station on the Tokaido Line. The cab air-conditioning units are prominent on the cab roofs.
June 2003, by Dave Fossett.
Toyama, an urban prefectural capital on...
Photos of the Month
October 2003
Heavy-load transporter number ShiKi611 included in a freight train seen heading south through Omiya station. This is one of only two such wagons, and is capable of transporting loads of up to 240 tonnes...