Forest Narrow Railway Festival in Japan

The Otaki forest railway festival was held in 2013 at Matsubara sport park, Otaki village, Nagano Prefecture. At this place, the locos and cars of Kiso forest railway are being stored by a volunteers. Kiso forest railway was used by forest service to support the logging of Japanese cypress "Hinoki" forests in the region. They had a network of 400km of 762 mm (2 ft 6 in) narrow gauge in Kiso Valley. But, the transport of forest railway decreased owing to a development in truck transportation. So, Otaki forest railway closed from 1975 to 1979. The Otaki forest railway festival is held once in few years. And they operates precious locos and cars.
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0:00 The switching in the morning
12:12 Running of the staff carriers
15:54 Running of the wood freight train
23:25 Running of the fuel freight train
33:45 Experiential session of the passenger train
42:04 Experiential session of the staff carriers
48:06 Running of the passenger train
Locos
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No.132 5t Diesel Loco
Manufactured in 1960
Manufacturer : SAKAI Works Co., LTD. [SAKAI Heavy Industries, LTD.]
Engine : Shin-Mitsubishi Heavy Industries, LTD. Type KE-21 5,800cc Inline-four
No.142 5t Diesel Loco
Manufactured in 1979
Manufacturer : HOKURIKU Heavy Industries, LTD.
Engine : Isuzu Motors Ltd. Type DA640 inline-six
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Staff carriers
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Orange staff carrier car for Dam Maintenance
Manufactured in 1979
Manufacturer : IWASAKI Rail Industries Co., LTD.
Car-owner of the time : The Kansai Electric Power Company, Incorporated
No.4 5t staff carrier car
Manufactured in 1950
Manufacturer : SAKAI Works Co., LTD. [SAKAI Heavy Industries, LTD.]
Engine : TOYOTA Type R60
No.14 5t staff carrier car
Manufactured in 1952
Manufacturer : SAKAI Works Co., LTD. [SAKAI Heavy Industries, LTD.]
Engine : Prince Motors, Ltd. Type G1 1,484cc Inline-four
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Passenger car
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Type B passenger car
Manufactured in 1961 (Bogie)
Manufacturer : IWASAKI Rail Industries Co., LTD. (Bogie)
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[@raylarkin5004]

The Japanese aesthetic is very pleasing. The little engines are charming yet very dutiful. I enjoyed this very much. Thank you for sharing.👍🏻

[@matthiasnicolai8306]

That turquoise colored "railbus" at 6:52 is the cutest thing I seen the last years!

[@farouqomaro598]

These are definitely cuter than Thomas & Friends

[@erinaputri9554]

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[@jaysonflesher8666]

あまり見かけない面白くて魅力的な一見この動画を投稿していただきありがとうございます

[@theothertonydutch]

Leave it to Japan to have a cute narrow railway festival.

[@paulnicoll1791]

Being an engineer I prefer to visit railways like this when their quiet and get permission to have a look round and all the rolling stock not normally seen by visitors

[@ap4709pk]

Don’t know why this was recommended to me, but I watched it to the very end. 👍👍

[@leradicideglialberi]

It would be a dream to be there for the festival

[@Rule1ModelRailways]

Great to see the Pacer replacements coming along so well!

[@kinotheidiot]

Hungary had a LOT of the same narrow gauge freight service. They all got into an end but ONE, The Lillafüredi kisvasút (Lillafüred narrow gauge railway) is still operating freight services! All other narrow gauge railways like the Budapesti Gyerekvasút [Budapest ,,Children Railway"(you may think why it got this stupid name, it got this name because railroad workers even the staion masters are 12-18 year old kids! Only the owners and the train drivers are adults.)] are only operating passenger services. And our narrow gauge railways are a little wider.

[@narendragongale8945]

I am happy to see these Japan's small railway engines

[@massmike11]

That little diesel towing the log train really sounds like it means business. Its great. I ran that sucker on my big Bose speakers fantastic

I think I know the one you mean, brap, brap, I'm gonna do logging :)

[@wild-radio7373]

What a delight! Sending luv from Oregon USA :) 🤜🏻👍🤛🏻♡♡♡

[@ycwong7999]

Great fun to ride one!

[@nickthompson9697]

This is magnificent.

[@jtveg]

Thanks for sharing. 😉👌🏼

[@pbyfr]

Very cool. I like the sound of No. 132! I didn't though that it will be so deep. So the sounds I use for my Katoworks 7 tons model isn't too much wrong.

[@Thomas1980]

very nice video!

[@123sheepdip]

Superb video and a pleasure to watch. Lovely to see these unusual trains and carriers that we don't see in Canada. Good luck to you all and keep up the dedicated work.

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[@RomekSolnicki]

Very nice movie !!

[@paulbennell3313]

So cool. I'd love to work on that railway.

[@nhkkc8688]

こんな素晴らしい所があるなんて全然知らなかった！！！！ホント現役で仕事している雰囲気が最高！よくある「なかよし鉄道」とか　子供連れが喜びそうなお遊戯鉄道にしていないところがいい！！

[@trainzeiro]

Excelente

[@nickhale2900]

Great upload. Interesting choice of PPE- hardhats and not hi-viz!

[@bimo800]

Can i install this at my home? My kid sure will loving this stuff 🤣

[@leonciohernandez]

little but impresive railroad and video

[@chromebomb]

OMG THIS IS SO CUTE I NEED THIS IN MY LIFE

[@omsuryawanshi2348]

Wow what an cute looking engines

[@KAKUWORKS_112]

ナローゲージの小型機関車特有の軽めのエンジン音が良いですね！！

[@rajat9619]

Some baby locos ;-)

[@jcpjean-claude4446]

a very interesting video! the locos are very beautiful !!!!! i susbribe .

[@user-iv6nk7qe4s]

Замечательное видео! Большое спасибо!

[@tardismole]

Is it just me, or does the orange one look like a VW van and the one with the triangle on the front look like an old Bedford van? And the green and brown one reminds me of an ERF from the 1940s. :)

[@jazdan223]

If I look on Japan's turist, I wonder what makes them so committed in photographing

[@manojsoni5917]

Nice and amejige

[@011dave]

wow very interesting hope i can visit one year

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david melville j

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kanavalle

[@woodrat2296]

I want one of those.

yeah, but can you afford to keep one :)

[@PROFESSOR_FRANQUETA-SE]

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[@michaelnorris6365]

Were those logs white cedar? The blue and white tram at about 7 minutes reminds me of a VW hippie/surfer microbus. I saw many of them in Southern California.

[@TotalRookie_LV]

So, basically those are K-cars on rails.

[@Buddha-eb5yl]

A intresting little Railroad ! Iss this a Museum ? Greetings from Germany from the Swabian Mountains near Ulm 👍🤗👋👋👋 Holger

[@andyu69]

When railway engines mate with VW combi's.

[@satreaaji]

truck engine?

[@shiro-gd6tn]

What are they doing first ten, fiftenn minutes of this film? I don't understand what they accomplished.

I'm not a train nerd but I really like this. Are all of them diesel chain driven? Also I'm guessing there is a difference between the people carriers and the load pullers? No 142 @23:58 still chain drive? As someone that likes to know how things work, I'd love to have been there, thank you for sharing. Ooops, and, of course, thank you to the real people there at the time keeping it alive.

[@therosijedha]

diesel train* and i belive so

[@therosijedha]

i see what you mean by chain

[@user-ou6ih7bj4n]

Самые "дрочные" локомотивы которые я видел )))) Забавные залупчики.

[@MrQuirinus]

Trabant's trains?

[@sb4994]

Is Thomas there too?

[@ChoboUnjeon]

Are those staff carrier railcars belt driven?

[@Pesmog]

If you look carefully at the green people catrrier, it looks like its chain drive.

[@gunner-pm7jh]

is that an ordinary 1067mm track?

[@joy8bigten30]

gunner6084 no,it's 762 gauge

[@gunner-pm7jh]

oh ok then

[@alexlongley6945]

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[@becconvideo]

The gauge seems quite wide - not line 600 or 750 mm. Could it be 1067mm like the "standard" gauge for Japanese railways?

I'm no expert but I think the logging trains were individual narrow gauges; much better if someone that knows says, I'm just a watcher. P.S. someone else a few years ago said it is 762 gauge, I don't know for sure

[@Buddha-eb5yl]

Gauge 762 mm !

[@slashmaster2]

These 4 wheeled locomotives sure don't ride very well, do they?

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Um jeep. Uma Kombi. Um citroen jampe

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ナロー　軽便鉄道

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Um Ford transit

[@noriokd9628]

ちっこい。

[@user-zw9hp4ih6t]

日本の文化。

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GOING TO MARKET DRAYTON CITY CENTER WITH GIFTS FROM SANTA CLAUS HERE !!!

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ALWAYS ON THE FRONT !!!

[@kyudaelee1]

Get rid of that toy railroad tracks and let us sell some semi trucks