Great video! Thank you for taking the time to document all these locomotives. I lived in Japan in the mid-1970's and would love to see the locomotives that ran while I was there in a video like yours. Thanks again for taking the videos and posting them for us to see. Carl
So awesome. I am a rail fan from Shanghai, and there are still many locomotive-powered passenger and freight trains that operates on regular railway（既有线，在来线）
Great! This is very precious record. Many locomotives contained in this video are already retired or scheduled to be retired in near future. EF 200 is one of that's example. It's used only less than 28 years long yet! And, JR Freight will no longer maintain their DD 51s. Unlike steam locomotives, electric or diesel locomotives aren't regarded as symbolic things of the railway, they will not to be preserved with operable condition. 3:32 - EF 66 was developed in 1968, not in 1966. 4:12 - There is an EF 67 (A red locomotive). This is last locomotive in Japan which developed for use as rear helper engine dedicatedly. Probably it will be retired within few years.
The japanese locomotives may be old but they are beautifully restored and maintained unlike old freight locomotives in Europe that often look appalling with fainted paint, graffiti and dirt. Only the new locomotives in Europe look good and what I especially noticed about the japanese freight trains is something I have never seen in Europe. No grafitti what so ever anywhere. In Europe many trains, especially freight trains get vandalized with grafitti. The japanese freight trains are the most clean and beautiful ones I have ever seen. It also seems Japan only rarely uses locomotives for pulling passenger trains again very much unlike in Europe and the .U.S. where many passenger trains are still pulled by electric or even diesel locomotives. Even many of the european highspeed trains like the french TGV, italian ETR 500, spanish Talgo and the old Eurostar are all loco pulled and pushed passenger bullet trains.
Hello dear friend, it is a great pleasure for me to discover this report on the Japan Railway, I am French but I am passionate about trains and especially yours and this report is really great, thank you, regards, Phil
Very good video . I have a lot of still photos from my visits to Japan but only a few videos. My family have returned home now so there will be no opportunity
