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Ken Oaf

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Aug 9, 2004, 4:23:59 AM8/9/04
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Saw this image of a weird looking triangular shaped train. Looks to be Asian.

Any further details on it?

http://img49.exs.cx/img49/6730/101752.jpg


Monty

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Aug 9, 2004, 10:37:35 AM8/9/04
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"Ken Oaf" <ti...@beerlover.com.au> wrote in message
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> Saw this image of a weird looking triangular shaped train. Looks to be
Asian.

Looks like it's designed to fit in a very small space (like a weird shaped
tunnel).


News

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Aug 9, 2004, 3:04:56 PM8/9/04
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"Ken Oaf" <ti...@beerlover.com.au> wrote in message
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It appears to have been designed for 2' gauge, with tight radius curves,
wider at the base to lower centre of gravity.

Shaun


Mark Newton

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Aug 9, 2004, 4:23:34 PM8/9/04
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Ken Oaf wrote:

> Saw this image of a weird looking triangular shaped train. Looks to
> be Asian.
>
> Any further details on it?

It's just a clever bit of image manipulation, presumably done in
Photoshop. The original image looks like this:

http://marknewton01.fotopic.net/p6590121.html

The train is a former Kinki Nippon Railway - "Kintetsu" - KuMo270 series
EMU. It was built in 1977 by Nippon Sharyo for the 2'6"/762mm gauge
Hokusei line from Nishi-Kuwana to Ageki, near Nagoya. This line was
slated for closure in April of this year, but was instead taken over by
the Sangi Railway.

Kintetsu continue to operate two other 762mm elctric lines, from
Yokkaichi to Utsube and Nishi-Hino, further down the coast of Ise Bay.

annee

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Aug 9, 2004, 6:16:40 PM8/9/04
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well spotted :)


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David Bennetts

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Aug 9, 2004, 6:27:53 PM8/9/04
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"Ken Oaf" <ti...@beerlover.com.au> wrote in message
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A train for Coneheads. Captain Chaos would fit in nicely. Here's the
design for the new Railcorp HQ, with ministerial suite on the top level:

http://www.tapyramid.com/

Regards

David Bennetts


Big End

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Aug 10, 2004, 4:37:58 AM8/10/04
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Or maybe Swiss based designed on the famous Toblerone...After all we
had a Cadbury Train

Mark Newton

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Aug 10, 2004, 4:08:26 PM8/10/04
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annee wrote:

> well spotted :)

Thanks!

>> The train is a former Kinki Nippon Railway - "Kintetsu" - KuMo270
>> series EMU. It was built in 1977 by Nippon Sharyo

I had a brainfart when writing this - it was actually built by Kinki
Sharyo, the rollingstock manufacturing subsidiary of Kintetsu. Sorry! :-(

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