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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...
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Seibu Railway series 3000 pulling in Kodaira station on its Shinjuku line. The Seibu Railway serves the northwestern part downtown Tokyo with its commuter trains fleet including this type, with two major terminus at...
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Series 205 of the Sagami Line. This EMU is a derivative of the 205 series of the Yamanote Line in Tokyo. The Sagami Line, Chigasaki on the Tokaido Main Line to Hashimoto on the...