Japanese electric trains

neil1 · Post by **neil1** » Mon Mar 21, 2005 10:01 am

I have just been looking at a site of japanese bullet trains. Some of the trains since 1964 have been amazing. I would like to know if anyone has thought about about designing some of these trains or does anyone know any web sites I can download these trains from. I would love to see them on some of the routes I have.Thankyou for you time in answering these questions.

johncard · Post by **johncard** » Mon Mar 21, 2005 11:03 am

Would this be http://www.h2.dion.ne.jp/~dajf/byunbyun/index.htm by any chance? I was looking for photos of high-speed trains for a school project and I came across this site - it is quite amazing how many different types they have.

It's quite weird because some of the preserved trains look virtually new, though a few of them look a bit too 'plastic' for my liking. Some look kind of like ducks bills (E4 and 700 series)...

I really like the look of the 500 series though.

(Sorry, I don't know that answers to your qs though

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John

LucaZone · Post by **LucaZone** » Mon Mar 21, 2005 11:35 am

Shinkansen Types

OPnly the Series 500 has been produced for MSTS and can be found on http://www.train-sim.com. Other than that the Hikari Railstar was also made which looks similar to the Series 700. Although this was a very early model for MSTS and does not look great compared to todays standards. This can also be found on http://www.train-sim.com

Stooopidperson · Post by **Stooopidperson** » Fri Mar 25, 2005 1:25 pm

I heard Chris Longhurst(the person who made the NS trains) was doing Shinkansens as well.

LucaZone · Post by **LucaZone** » Fri Mar 25, 2005 3:31 pm

It was on his website in 2003, but ive not seen anything since.

joea1 · Post by **joea1** » Fri Mar 25, 2005 10:04 pm

A TRAIN 6

bigvern · Post by **bigvern** » Sat Mar 26, 2005 5:34 pm

Seems strange that despite the popularity of train sims in Japan, they didn't make much for MSTS. I guess they were more into BVE, Densha de Go etc.

jbilton · Post by **jbilton** » Sat Mar 26, 2005 5:46 pm

Hi
Jonathan (pepsi) Powell I think mentioned doing one a long while back.
Cheers
Jon

pepsipowell · Post by **pepsipowell** » Sun Mar 27, 2005 9:43 am

Yep, a Series 0 shinkansen - it's just taken a bit of a back seat to routebuilding at the moment, and although I don't like setting definate release dates, it may appear in the summer.

Jonathan

LucaZone · Post by **LucaZone** » Sun Mar 27, 2005 9:45 am

Is it hard to obtain plans of the trains?