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Limited Express/Express trains that run only under the overhead line despite a diesel car (Tohoku Main Line edition)

In Japan, vehicles that run on tracks are often called "trains," but many "diesel vehicles" run using diesel fuel are also operated, mainly on local local lines in the countryside. air...

Yuto OnoYuto Ono2025.05.29

The legendary special express "Echo Morioka Aomori" [Iwate Prefecture and Aomori Prefecture]

In the late Showa period, special express trains called "Echomorioka" and "Echo Aomori" operated on the Tohoku Main Line, known as the Tohoku aorta. Probably, the line is rather low-known...

Yuto OnoYuto Ono2025.05.02

Railway version of EV? ACCUM battery train running through the Oga Peninsula [Akita Prefecture]

Many "trains" run on Japanese railways today, but trains are basically vehicles that continue to take in electricity from outside, so they cannot be driven on routes that do not have electricity facilities...

Yuto OnoYuto Ono2025.04.21

Kintaro? What is the EH500 type electric locomotive that is mainly used on the Tohoku Main Line?

In addition to the trains that are carried by passengers, there are many freight trains running on the JR Tohoku Main Line, the Iwate Galaxy Railway Line and the Aoimori Railway Line, which pass through the Tohoku region. And then we're at the front of that freight train...

Yuto OnoYuto Ono2025.04.02

Shirayuki Express, which took 12 hours to connect Kanazawa and Aomori

From now on (2025) to about 40 years ago, express trains ranging from Kanazawa Station in Ishikawa Prefecture to Aomori Station in Aomori Prefecture over 12 hours. It's a train called "Shirayuki". ...

Yuto OnoYuto Ono2025.02.27

What kind of route was the Konan Railway Owani Line, which was effectively decided to abolish it? [Blue...

Regarding the Owani Line, a railway line operated by Aomori Prefecture's private railway, Konan Railway, Konan Railway intends to suspend train operations at the end of fiscal year 2027...

Yuto OnoYuto Ono2025.02.19

A train with a locomotive and passenger train! ? Trains with a strange formation [Aomori, Akita, Iwate]

The main character of Japanese railways today can be said to be "trains." Furthermore, on routes where electricity cannot be supplied for trains (non-electrified routes), "dietic cars" that use diesel fuel as fuel are used...

Yuto OnoYuto Ono2025.02.06

Sanriku Railway continues to run today after overcoming the crisis [Iwate Prefecture]

There is a railway that runs along the Pacific coast of Iwate Prefecture. It is called the Rias Line from the Sanriku Railway. The Sanriku Railway, which was the last railway to run along the Sanriku Coast, opened, was affected by the major disaster...

Yuto OnoYuto Ono2025.01.23

"Train" can no longer run! ? What is "non-electrification" on the Ou Main Line? [Akita/Yamagata]

In railways, the process of allowing the vehicle to be powered by placing overhead wires (electric wires) above the tracks is called "electrification." Generally, vehicles running along the tracks are often called "trains"...

Yuto OnoYuto Ono2025.01.21

The Yamada Line's path was asked, "Are you planning to ride a monkey?" [Iwate Prefecture]

There is a railway line that is said to have been told when the construction was planned, "Are you planning on carrying a monkey?" This is the JR Yamada Line that runs through Iwate Prefecture. What kind of route is the Yamada Line, its history and...

Yuto OnoYuto Ono2025.01.08

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