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Yuehan (16 posts)
May-30-02, 09:44 PM (EDT) "Shinkansen? Any Japanese Designers?" Hello I just want to enquire if there are any designers who are in the process of building any of the Shinkansen trains from Japan. There are four major h/speed units all quite different and the 'Nozomi' is a great looking machine. I will try to attach picture if I can as I have never done so before, thanks. Alert Edit | Reply | Reply With Quote | Top
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Subject Author Message Date ID RE: Shinkansen? Any Japanese Design... obo May-31-02 1 RE: Shinkansen? Any Japanese Design... Yuehan May-31-02 3 RE: Shinkansen? Any Japanese Design... shovelnose May-31-02 2 RE: Shinkansen? Any Japanese Design... MountainHome May-31-02 4 RE: Shinkansen? Any Japanese Design... CPrailman Jun-01-02 5 RE: Shinkansen? Any Japanese Design... Euston Jun-01-02 6 RE: Shinkansen? Any Japanese Design... cjmaclean Jun-02-02 7 RE: Shinkansen? Any Japanese Design... TrirailF40PHL Jun-02-02 8 RE: Shinkansen? Any Japanese Design... driverphil1 Jun-02-02 9 RE: Shinkansen? Any Japanese Design... Shogun703 Jun-02-02 10 RE: Shinkansen? Any Japanese Design... Matt Vince Jun-03-02 11 RE: Shinkansen? Any Japanese Design... KLM747 Jun-03-02 12 RE: Shinkansen? Any Japanese Design... driverphil1 Jun-03-02 13 RE: Shinkansen? Any Japanese Design... Yuehan Jun-03-02 14 RE: Shinkansen? Any Japanese Design... obo Jun-04-02 15 RE: Shinkansen? Any Japanese Design... ricksan Jun-04-02 16 RE: Shinkansen? Any Japanese Design... obo Jun-04-02 17

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obo (64 posts)
May-31-02, 04:10 AM (EDT) 1. "RE: Shinkansen? Any Japanese Designers?" Roni, the "small world" guy, was working on a 500 but that was back in March and I don't know how he's progressing.We do need more Japanese stock. Any idea where to get some?Rob. Remove | Alert Edit | Reply | Reply With Quote | Top
Yuehan (16 posts)
May-31-02, 11:26 PM (EDT) 3. "RE: Shinkansen? Any Japanese Designers?" I have been trying the search engines for designers in Japan because I thought this would have been well under way by now with the release of MSTS but no luck to date. It isn't the language thingee but there just doesn't seem to be any Japanese designers around (!!!) I have a friend in Hiroshima who has sent me all the latest photo's of the Nozomi and Hikari and will keep trying. Regards John Remove | Alert Edit | Reply | Reply With Quote | Top
shovelnose (25 posts)
May-31-02, 06:19 PM (EDT) 2. "RE: Shinkansen? Any Japanese Designers?" Funny you should mention that. Since I saw this '0' Series Shinkansen at the National Railway Museum in York (UK) last weekend, I was thinking how nice it would be to run a full trainset of these on MSTS. In my opinion the original style Shinkansens are a classic design, and have never been improved on by any of the later variants.Shovelnose Remove | Alert Edit | Reply | Reply With Quote | Top
MountainHome (8 posts)
May-31-02, 11:37 PM (EDT) 4. "RE: Shinkansen? Any Japanese Designers?" The 0 Series is a classic. The only Shinkansen I ever rode was a 100 Series way back in 1992. I rode the train from Tokyo to Hiroshima where my grandmother lives. (It was also the first time I had seen her since I was 2 years old - 1959.) For some pics and specs, check out this site: http://www.h2.dion.ne.jp/~dajf/byunbyun/index.htmHarold Remove | Alert Edit | Reply | Reply With Quote | Top
CPrailman (429 posts)
Jun-01-02, 02:12 AM (EDT) 5. "RE: Shinkansen? Any Japanese Designers?" I was just looking at the site , and the 400 series really struck me as WOW! If anything make that. Modern yet very unique.


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Euston (1116 posts)
Jun-01-02, 04:52 AM (EDT) 6. "RE: Shinkansen? Any Japanese Designers?" I like the version with the very sharp nose, there is a model of it next to the Shinkansen at York.If that hit someone on the tracks it would impale him! Simtrain UK - Payware reviews our speciality
http://clix.to/trainsimSee the latest images of the route at Simtrain UK. Remove | Alert Edit | Reply | Reply With Quote | Top
cjmaclean (1154 posts)
Jun-02-02, 03:00 AM (EDT) 7. "RE: Shinkansen? Any Japanese Designers?" Looks as if NASA had entered the railway business, eh?
Seriously, I, too, would like a Shinkansen line (with trainsets) a lot...preferably of the same quality as Clem Tillier's TGVs and lucweb's upcoming LGV Med line. (Aren't I modest? )
D.M."Homini plurima ex homine sunt mala." - Plinius Maior, Naturalis Historia 7,1,5
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TrirailF40PHL (800 posts)
Jun-02-02, 01:52 PM (EDT) 8. "RE: Shinkansen? Any Japanese Designers?" I'm devoted to American EMD and early ALCO diesel stuff, but I have to say, there's no better high speed trains then the Shinkansen 0 and 200 series. Nothing will beat those models. The 100s look too much like a wedge and the E-2 Max is horrendously ugly.I vote for a Shinkansen 0 / 200 series trainset!Kurt Remove | Alert Edit | Reply | Reply With Quote | Top
driverphil1 (180 posts)
Jun-02-02, 02:52 PM (EDT) 9. "RE: Shinkansen? Any Japanese Designers?" He he, my dad works at the national railway museaum!Phil Remove | Alert Edit | Reply | Reply With Quote | Top
Shogun703 (38 posts)
Jun-02-02, 05:41 PM (EDT) 10. "RE: Shinkansen? Any Japanese Designers?" It would be great to see these wonders of a train zipping by, plus I want my TGVs and Acela to have some company. Dan Remove | Alert Edit | Reply | Reply With Quote | Top
Matt Vince (158 posts)
Jun-03-02, 09:46 AM (EDT) 11. "RE: Shinkansen? Any Japanese Designers?" I'd love a Shinkansen. I particularly like the 100 and 400 series, and the E-1 'Max' units. It'd be a great compliment to the collection of routes we have here, something a bit different from all the US and European routes. I am tempted to download GMax and have a go at one, probably the E-1 Max first off. Or maybe have a go at a fictional route. Remove | Alert Edit | Reply | Reply With Quote | Top
KLM747 (7 posts)
Jun-03-02, 10:58 AM (EDT) 12. "RE: Shinkansen? Any Japanese Designers?" Yeah, a Shinkansen for Microsoft Train Simulator would be wonderful. I just got back from Japan recently, while I was there I rode on the Hikari Rail Star (700 series) and a regular Hikari (300 series).The shinkansen is a very reliable means of transportation, always on time...I think the average delay is about 24 seconds. I hope to see some shinkansen trains for MSTS in the future. --- William Remove | Alert Edit | Reply | Reply With Quote | Top
driverphil1 (180 posts)
Jun-03-02, 01:04 PM (EDT) 13. "RE: Shinkansen? Any Japanese Designers?" Apparently, a driver for one the bullet trains was 1 minute late, and so put under investigation!!!!Phil
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Yuehan (16 posts)
Jun-03-02, 08:01 PM (EDT) 14. "RE: Shinkansen? Any Japanese Designers?" To Matt Vince.
Hi Matt, glad you're thinking of a design and possibly a route for the Shinkansen. The Odawara-Shinjuku is of course out of the question as a limited and restricted speed cross-urban line and as far as I know a different gauge than the Shinkansen lines which are: 'Toukaidou-Sanyo''Hokkaido''Touhoku''Hokuriku' and 'Kyushu'I don't know what size the Shinkansen gauge is but obviously larger not that it matters in the sim. It would be great to 'stretch out' with these trains like the Amtrak and keeping to their strict timetables would be an activity in itself. I don't know the model numbers but only the names that the Japanese people call them and they are; 'Hikari' (100,300 and Railstar 700) Nozomi (700, which looks like sci-fi) Nozomi (500,which is the sharp nose),Haruka (1 and 2, which look like slower units) and the Kodama of course. You probably have this info but Noriko my girlfriend has been investigating for me so I want to help to get something going. I can try to get the route plans from her next. Regards John Remove | Alert Edit | Reply | Reply With Quote | Top
obo (64 posts)
Jun-04-02, 04:52 AM (EDT) 15. "RE: Shinkansen? Any Japanese Designers?" All Shinkansen lines are standard gauge.I rode on a 500 and a 700 back in January. Quite the thrill. This is a little macabre, but when we got off the 500 at Kyoto we went to have a look at the engine and saw that the nose had a large brownish-red smear that I didn't recall being there in Tokyo. Wonder what we hit with our pointy little beak at ~270kmh?Rob.
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ricksan (34 posts)
Jun-04-02, 11:43 AM (EDT) 16. "RE: Shinkansen? Any Japanese Designers?" Justa coupla remarks from an observer in the mysterious east...Track gauge -- seems to me it is 60" (1524 mm), no more no less. Why it's not an even metric gauge (like 1500 mm) I can't imagine. But then, I'm going by faded memory here.Reddish-brown smear -- I used to read in the Mainichi News about the occasional latter-day samurai who, despondent over some perceived loss of face, would commit "seppuku" on (i.e. in the path of) what was then the "New" Tokkaido line. Sounds like that's still as good a way to do one's self in as ever.Rick Vernon
(Occasional maker of much earlier Japanese RR stuff)
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obo (64 posts)
Jun-04-02, 03:44 PM (EDT) 17. "RE: Shinkansen? Any Japanese Designers?" Rick, there is no broad gauge that I know of in Japan. Shinkansen lines are standard gauge (1435mm) and most other lines are 1067mm. See page 205 and following in Jane's World Railways 2000-2001, or many other sources.As for your smear theory, I'm glad I wasn't eating when I read that. Rob. Remove | Alert Edit | Reply | Reply With Quote | Top

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