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I’m back! The dissertation is done, the apartment is packed up, and now I’m in Budapest. Right next to a major train station. Nice. I’m quite new to Hungarian railroading, so I don’t really know what anything I’m seeing is. Here’s an electric locomotive I found today at [...] My latest purchase is a Kato model of the 651系 “Super Hitachi”. It’s quite the handsome model, and it includes interior lighting for all the coaches, out of the box. What a nice feature, ne? A few minutes of running the train, however, and I begin to wonder. My throttle is very warm to [...] The Prototype When Japan began electrifying railways, they opted for DC, being basically the only option at the time. But as technology advanced, more recent electrification projects used AC. So, what this means is that railroads in and around Tokyo and Kyoto, being older, are DC; newly electrified lines in northern Honshu and [...] Happy birthday to me! This set was a gift from my wonderful wife. Actually, we kinda picked it out together, for reasons I won’t yet reveal. The box reads “J.R. Limited Express Sleeping Cars Series 24 Type 25 ‘Yumekukan’ with Electric Locomotive Type EF81″ (which is far more terse in the original Japanese: [...] Well, it’s my first bullet train, the double-decker high speed commuter E4 Multi Amenity Express. I don’t know why increasing the number of levels increases the number of amenities, but that’s how it’s marketed. So be it. I can’t tell if it looks more like an airplane or a fish. The Prototype While [...] Here is the most recent addition to my freight stable: A Kato EF66 in JNR colors (seen here pulling HOKI 800 ballast cars down the Ikea Line). It cuts quite a striking silhouette, doesn’t it? I bought this one used on eBay, and it’s a good runner, although the lighting board burned out [...] I just recently purchased Kato’s EF65-1000 in JR Freight (early) colors. Isn’t it cute? It’s a great runner, and an interesting prototype. Finding information on the prototype on the Internet, especially if you can only read about a dozen kanji, is surprisingly hard, however, and I welcome suggestions for addenda in the comments. [...] |
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