What An Original 1964 Bullet Train Looks Like Today

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@huss1205 2 күн бұрын

Series 0, the original, ran from 1964 until retirement in 2008. It was relevant for 44 years, such a genius peice of engineering...

@JovesJapanJams Күн бұрын

Thank you for your comment. What makes it's debut in 1964 even more ingenious is the fact that during that time "Made In Japan" was still a worldwide joke-----and that included their motor vehicles which seemed like tinker toys covered with aluminum foil compared to larger American cars made of US Steel. A sight to see during those days and even up to the early 1970s were the plethora of three-wheeled trike trucks with 2 wheels/tires in the back and 1 wheel/tire in the front.

@A_Canadian_In_Poland Күн бұрын

Not sure if the 1964-built units were still operating, or was it trainsets to the 0 series design but built in the early 1980s that were still in service in the 2000s. Contrarily, the TGV Sud-Est sets 01 and 02 were in service for 43 years, from 1977 until 2020.

@huss1205 Күн бұрын

@@A_Canadian_In_Polandthat's a long service life for the same gen.

@deadleads Күн бұрын

The photo of the nice one is in York UK. You can board it and enjoy a mostly prefect model.

@chartreuserailfanning2230 Ай бұрын

60 years old and still way more technologically advanced than most of the trains here in America. I wish we would stop funding making roads wider and build proper high-speed rail like the rest of the world!

@JovesJapanJams Ай бұрын

Thank you for your comment. On the one hand, America is much bigger and wider than Japan which is around the size of California-----so there is whole lot more ground to cover with Shinkansen tracks? On the other hand? California couldn't and still can't build a Bullet Train network like Japan's, which as you pointed out has been safely, effectively and efficiently transporting passengers at high speed for 60 years.

@roblosgamingenjoyer5479 7 күн бұрын

nah i love old ass trains

@YoLo-bb2vc 4 күн бұрын

high speed rail? what's that? here in england we are still using railway lines from the victorian era that periodically gets updated to prevent accidents we dont have high speed rails in this country lol

@rockguitarist931 3 күн бұрын

Public transit in America is a joke, some states don't even have an Amtrak depot and many major cities are completely opposed to restoring passenger service.

@chartreuserailfanning2230 3 күн бұрын

@@rockguitarist931 Phoenix resident here. I am sick and tired of having to drive 30 km through the middle of the desert to hop on a train that comes three times a week.

@1981deloreanfan 22 сағат бұрын

I found out why trains are so slow in America. The Interstate Commerce Commission ruled in 1951 that trains traveling 80 mph or more must have "an automatic cab signal, automatic train stop or automatic train control system". American railroads did not want to spend the money to upgrade their equipment and infrastructure to comply so the railroads self imposed a 79 mph speed limit nationwide. One of the few railroads that ended up complying with the law was the Pennsylvania Railroad for the Northeastern Corridor. Due to the Pennsylvania Railroad’s foresight, we have the Acela service between Boston and Washington today.

@Autistic_EthanOfficial 11 сағат бұрын

It's actually die to freight railroads having priority over amtrak and aging infrastructure

@KyngRailfanner8090 4 күн бұрын

That bullet train locomotive, it kind of reminds me of someone from my childhood

@Datron9898 4 күн бұрын

Koko?

@KyngRailfanner8090 4 күн бұрын

@ oh oh yes!

@KyngRailfanner8090 4 күн бұрын

@ and that electric train from Thomas

@JovesJapanJams 3 күн бұрын

Thank you for your comment. And because I’ve discovered that 90% of the views for my videos and (mainly) shorts aimed at westerners are viewed in Japan, I appreciate reactions to any of my uploads in my native English-----albeit, the American version. So to follow up on your comment, do any of these mugs remind you of someone from your childhood? kzbin.infoJPeNZr7fq7g

@handle_69420_MINECRAFT_BOAT 3 күн бұрын

@@KyngRailfanner8090Hugo?

@thestarlightalchemist7333 Сағат бұрын

It's sad that only cabcars are left, so unless we essentially recreate the first prototype set (2 cabcars back to back), we likely will never see an 0 series run again.

@JamieBaxen-pp5zs 16 сағат бұрын

Nice Vid

@SeamusYap 17 сағат бұрын

That’s the bullet train I used to know when I was young

@aplane9625 Күн бұрын

There is one at York I saw it

@Aviationfan2022 23 сағат бұрын

Same here

@おおきいほし Ай бұрын

昭島の公園ですね。私が小さいころ住んでた町です。この新幹線は1992年に昭島の町にやってきて、中は図書館として使われてました。友達とよく本を借りに行きました。今は放置されて悲しいですが、昭島市がペンキを塗りなおして修理して、また子供たちのランドマークにする計画を立てているらしいです。

@JovesJapanJams Ай бұрын

I've been living in the area next to Akishima from before 1992 but I never knew about the Shinkansen parked there until one day last year when I took a shortcut to Cainz Home next to Espa. Did you hear about the end of another Akishima landmark that's been located at the same spot in between Haijima and Akishima stations from at least the mid-1970s? The Ito-Yokado store there closed this past April.and for many decades' worth of Americans stationed at Yokota Air Base, the original building was a landmark everybody simply called the "Bird Store".

@おおきいほし Ай бұрын

@@JovesJapanJams 拝島のイトーヨーカドーがなくなったのは残念ですね。地域の衰退を感じます。横田基地にとってそんな印象的なお店だとは知りませんでした。エスパという単語も何十年ぶりに聞きました。20年以上前、私の町の周り(東中神駅)には地域スーパーがなかったのでエスパまで行ってました。懐かしい記憶を思いださせてくれてありがとうございます。thank you.

@JovesJapanJams Ай бұрын

@@おおきいほし The Seiyu store at Fussa Station also must have been suffering business losses but instead of closing, they brought in other companies to take over floors including Cainz Home-----and now there are both Seiyu & Cainz Home signs on top of the building. Being a 10-minute walk from Haijima Station and even farther from Akishima Station that has Espa, I guess their location wasn't so attractive for other companies and now the building is being turned into part of the Tokushukai Hospital that is across the street. The reason why the original Ito-Yokado building was memorable for base people in the area is because their sign at the top of the building used to prominently display a crane in the logo, which is why Americans simply called it the "Bird Store".

@eternaldonut3128 53 минут бұрын

Why does he look so worried?

@richrenwick3123 Күн бұрын

that's what they get for leaving it outside

@JovesJapanJams Күн бұрын

Thank you for your comment. It's in a park next to a playground and one of the other commenters mentioned living nearby when he was a kid and at that time it was being used as a library.

@usakousa 21 сағат бұрын

Yes, it's so sad to see it so dirty and looking abandoned 😢

@たかると近鉄-南海-電車 Ай бұрын

ひかり　博多　行きか…乗ってみたかったなぁ…

@JovesJapanJams Ай бұрын

Thank you for your comment but are you sure about Tokyo to Hakata? Once upon a time in the prior century, instead of flying back to Tokyo from Fukuoka like I usually did on such business trips, the combination of superstition, jinxes and bad things happening in threes caused me to choose riding the Shinkansen after 2 passenger plane crashes happened in different parts of the world. The (then) 6-hour train ride was the 2nd worst never-ending torture involving time I ever had to endure in Japan with the 1st worst being a 24-hour ferry boat ride several years earlier from Yokohama to Okinawa when I decided to ride along with a car I was bringing there. Of course, when I finally reached Tokyo and then got home, I felt like a fool because no JAL, ANA or NAS domestic flight airplanes had crashed in Japan that day. Maybe that long Shinkansen ride could be slightly less worse today because people can kill time looking at the internet on their phones? But not back then…..