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"Photo of the Month" Archive January 2000


A Tokaido local

Series 113 in its green-orange Shonan livery is rolling down along the Tokaido Main Line in local service, at Shin-Koyasu in Yokohama. On the right is a Keihin-Tohoku commuter train heading for Ofuna across Yokohama.
By Hiroshi Naito, December 1999.

EF-210-901 at Hamakawasaki yard

JR Freight's newest version of freight-hauling AC-driven locomotive, type EF-210, in switching (shunting) operation at Hamakawasaki Yard. Being first built in in 1996, the EF-210s are gradually superseding obsolete EF65s on the Tokaido and Sanyo Main Lines. The number 901 represents that this locomotive is the prototype of the class.
By Hiroshi Naito, December 1999.



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