The following is a Stock-list of all the loco's i own, and what they would have looked like in the real-world. I have tried to find any information i can on each one to give an idea what they are about.
As i buy more Loco's i will update the lists.
Kato 10-388 223-100 Series Electric Car
This is a nice 4 car unit with full lighting inside and directional lighting on the front and rear.
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Kato 10-296 209-500 Series (SOBU LINE COLOUR) Yurakucho Line
The
Tokyo Metro Yūrakuchō Line (有楽町線, Yūrakuchō-sen?) is a
subway line owned and operated by
Tokyo Metro. The line connects
Wakōshi Station in
Wakō, Saitama and
Shin-Kiba Station in
Kōtō, Tokyo. On maps, diagrams and signboards, the line is shown using the color "gold", and its stations are given numbers using the letter
Y.
Services
The Yūrakuchō Line has inter-running counterparts on its northern side, both of which are "major" Japanese
private railway companies in
Greater Tokyo. One is the
Tōbu Railway at Wakōshi, north to
Shinrinkōen. The other is the
Seibu Railway at
Kotake-Mukaihara with its bypass line
Seibu Yūrakuchō Line connecting to its main
Ikebukuro Line, through trains north to
Kotesashi or
Hannō.
According to the
Tokyo Metropolitan Bureau of Transportation, as of June 2009 the Yūrakuchō Line is the fifth most crowded subway line in Tokyo, at its peak running at 173% capacity between
Higashi-Ikebukuro and
Gokokuji stations.
Semi-express
(準急?) services ran on the Yūrakuchō Line between June 14, 2008 and March 6, 2010, operating twice hourly between Wakōshi and Shin-Kiba. Between Wakōshi and Ikebukuro, semi-express trains stopped only at Kotake-Mukaihara; between Ikebukuro and Shin-Kiba, trains stopped at all stations. The semi-express trains ran between rush hours during weekdays and more frequently on weekends and holidays. These services were abolished and replaced with local services on March 6, 2010.
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Kato 10-227 M250 Series Super Rail Cargo
The
M250 Series Super Rail Cargo is a freight electric multiple unit (EMU) train type operated by
Japan Freight Railway (JR Freight) in Japan. It entered service in 2004 with the objective of reducing emissions and carrying general freight for small package forwarders (such as special delivery services). The M250 series is JR Freight's first container train with distributed traction. It is manufactured by
Nippon Sharyo,
Kawasaki Heavy Industries, and
Toshiba.
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10-397 700 Series Shinkansen "Nozomi"
The
700 series (700系?) is a Japanese
Shinkansen high-speed train type built between 1997 and 2006, and entering service in 1999. Originally designated as "N300", they formed the next generation of shinkansen vehicles jointly designed by
JR Central and
JR West for use on both
Tōkaidō and
Sanyō Shinkansen lines.
Design
The 700 series is characterized by its flat 'duck-bill' nose designed to reduce the
piston effect as the trains enter tunnels. 16-car units are painted white with blue stripes beneath the windows, and are used for
Nozomi,
Hikari, and
Kodama services on the
Tōkaidō and
Sanyō Shinkansen lines, while 8-car units used for the
Sanyō Shinkansen Hikari Rail Star services have a darker livery (grey with black window areas and a yellow stripe beneath the windows) which also acts to visually deemphasize the units' nose area, resulting in a more streamlined impression.
As with the
500 series trains,
yaw dampers are fitted between vehicles, and all cars feature semi-active suspension to ensure smooth ride characteristics even at high speed. Compared with the small fleet of high-performance, high-cost 500 series trains built for JR West, these trains were designed to give improved ride comfort and interior ambience over the earlier 300 series trains at a lower cost than the 500 series trains. The cost of a 16-car 700 series unit is approximately 4 billion yen compared with around 5 billion yen for a 16-car 500 series train.
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10-474 251 Series "Super View Odoriko"
Operations
Services are currently operated by 7-, 10-, and 10+5-car 185 series EMUs, making it the longest Limited Express train running in Japan (excluding shinkansen trains).
The word
odoriko means a girl dancer in
Japanese. The train service was named after the title of novel
Izu no Odoriko (
The Dancing Girl of Izu) by
Yasunari Kawabata. The stage of the novel is the destination of the train,
Izu Peninsula.
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More to follow
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I managed to grab the last of the carpet underlay to put down to help the attic a bit more comfortable, so once i have the base boards built i will put this down in the walkways. I am hoping no to have any duck under's but i would like to get a long a run as possible with the trains, so it may mean i have to have one or two. All the boards that are down just now will be removed. So i have a clean open space to start with. I will reuse what i can. I am not sure if i am going to this a night time layout, as alot of the passenger locos i have, have interior lights. But i am undecided on that front.
