Those are some beautiful shots. That said, 4 trains in 40 minutes isn't -that- frequent... http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9D28UOcUdBU
Or that active. This is Nippori:14 tracks http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kaaNHEkNdhc http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kMaatLCymvY
Well yeah.. that could happen up in Chicago too.. obviously out in the country like this.. nice to have them stacked up a bit.
How many trains you consider busy is relative to where you are. I took this video in just over an hour at Yono in the northern suburbs of Tokyo last November. I haven't actually counted the trains in it, these are just the freights, there were four or five passenger trains between each freight train. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AJ5FDglcFeQ
Nice videos, guys. The one of Yono, about four minutes in, a freight passes and it sounds just like what I remember for old Milwaukee Road electrics. What sort of commodity were they hauling in those green/gray tank cars? Boxcab E50
In Cheyenne, seeing 4 trains in a half hour was not unheard of, and 5-way meets were not unheard of, with the overhead BNSF line at UP MP511. I used to spend Sunday afternoons there all the time. On the Moffat, seeing 3 trains in an hour was really good, but you might not see anything else for like 4 hours. Nice footage!
Those are Taki 1000 oil cars - the green and grey paint scheme identifies them as being owned by Japan (Nippon) Oil Transport. You can see the ENEOS logo on a few of them. Kato makes them in that paint scheme (as well as several versions of the blue Nippon Oil Terminal scheme) in both N and HO. The N version come either single (8037-3 or 8037-2, with or without the logo) or as an 8-car set (10-825 with logo).
This is the BNSF Chillicothe Subdivision.. So there are days where its busy.. Ive been out days where theyve had 7 trains stopped from Joliet to Streator.
Yeah, I always thought the early JNR electrics looked a lot like the MILW's equipment. The loco pulling the freight at 4 minutes in is an EF66; you can see the evolution of the JNR electrics if you surf to the bottom of the article and expand the menus.
