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Photos of the Month
July 2001
Quietly running along a modern elevated track is a single unit diesel rail car of the Tokai Kotsu (transport) in Nagoya, a 3rd sector company partly owned by JR Tokai. This railway, mostly opened...
Photos of the Month
June 2001
On a fine spring day, a 201 series train in the Chuo Line rapid service snakes through downtown Tokyo towards Ochanomizu. On a viaduct in the distance is a yellow liveried Sobu Line local.
April...
Photos of the Month
May 2001
This specialy liveried EMU is 103 series introduced in accordance with the opening of Universal Studio Japan in Osaka. These trains shuttle between Nishi-Kujo and Sakurajima on the JR Sakurajima Line providing access to...
Photos of the Month
April 2001
Apart from Tokyo's remaining municipal Arakawa Line, the Hokkaido port city of Hakodate's 10.9 kms is the only 4 foot 6 inch (1372 mm) tram operation in Japan. Shown in this shot from February...
Photos of the Month
March 2001
Tokyu Toyoko Line series 9000 at Myorenji in Yokohama on an unusually snowy day.
By Brian Walker, January 2001.
950-made vintage tram car #82, type 80, of Tokyu Setagaya Line, one of the last remaining two...
Photos of the Month
February 2001
Bullet train series 500 zips through Shizuoka yard heading for Tokyo, with Mt. Fuji in the background.
January 1st 2001, by Hiroshi Naito.
Commuter train series 103 at Anzen station on the JR Tsurumi Line situated...
Photos of the Month
January 2001
JR Kyushu's Limited Express "Yufuin-no-mori" 4 (Kiha 70s and Kiha 71s DMU), the Kyudai Main Line's most popular train, running through paddy fields towards Yufuin.
By Minoru Shinozaki, August 1999.
JR Hokkaido's Kiha 183 series DMU...
Photos of the Month
December 2000
Start signals at Niitus station. The left signal head is for the Shinetsu Main Line towards Niigata. The right siganl head is for the down Uetsu Line towards Akita. The train passing by the...