Japan/Using steam power to promote tourism

Sloan · **Posted:** Tue May 31, 2011 2:59 pm

http://mdn.mainichi.jp/travel/news/2011 ... 9000c.html

Steam to the rescue, since March earthquake and tsunami diminished electric power distribution.

Sloan

Trevor Heath · **Posted:** Tue May 31, 2011 10:31 pm

Impressive....thanks for posting

TH

J3a-614 · **Posted:** Tue May 31, 2011 11:04 pm

Did a little checking on YouTube, and Japanese railway preservation seems to have some interesting equipment. What's notable about the line and equipment shown is how much it reminds me of here, specifically of someplace in my West Virginia, with green mountains, a railroad following a river or smaller stream, and black coal-burners with chime whistles that echo off the hills:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8qgkXSUi ... re=related

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xz-utdlX ... re=related

I wonder what else is out there, but didn't have the time to look properly. It's my understanding that there are also interurbans out there. Can anyone confirm or correct this?

J3a-614 · **Posted:** Tue May 31, 2011 11:17 pm

Fascinating, the impression of an American touch in Japan even holds up at fairly close range--and at about 4:10, check out what look like a narrow-gauge version of Pullman 6-wheel trucks under the last car!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=klYo8wDsjpA&NR=1