The local switcher has attached to the overnight service from Osaka ready to shunt out
"check under the hood"
Local services runnning parallel in the fresh snow
The morning rush is over and many of the trains have been taken out for the day.
A pair of CLF's ( and another down at the rear ) power away from a stand after stopping to hand up an order to work through a section being re-signalled.
Evening commuters waiting to depart Santa Lucia
485 series EMU at Aomori station
Ballast train working the Mildura line upgrade. The lead unit had been painted for a movie production shoot.
At the depot
Working conditions circa 1918 ( and again for me in 2003 )
485 EMU raising a little snow as it approaches at speed
Kirishima/Hyuga service
189 EMU on a 'Myoko' service between Nagano and Naoetsu
Most of our A7 fleet are gone, some wooden bodied cars are preserved for fan specials and the semaphore signals at Bacchus Marsh are being replaced as part of a higher train speed project.
