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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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Dual voltage (1.5 KVDC and 20 KVAC) locomotive EF 8181, type EF81, at Shinagawa station. This equipment is specially assigned in its role to the haulage of Sapporo-link limited express Cassiopeia.
By Hiroshi Naito, April...
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Kiha 58 diesel railcars carried over from the formar national railway is still in service in Kyushu, at Bungo-Mori on the Kyudai Main Line.
By an anonymous JRS member, May 2000.
This sleek EMU is a...
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JR Kyushu's class 787 Tsubame that has been serving the Kagoshima Main Line's limited expresses since 1992 between Hakata/Fukuoka and West-Kagoshima (Tsubame), Hakata/Fukuok and Sizenji/Kumamoto (Ariake). This type was innovative with its specially designed...