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17Oct/170

Shin-Osaka Webcam – What you can expect to see…

Welcome back to Shin-Osaka. This station is north of the main Osaka station and provides a transfer point to the Tokaido and Sanyo Shinkansen. There's a webcam hosted live on Youtube to the north-east of the station and it provides a perfect view of all traffic heading in and out of the station. The link to the camera is here.

View my post here with a timetable of the standard trains. It'll help you find a specific service! It also has a list of observations as to when specific movements are run.

The two lines in the bottom-right are freight and you'll see all sorts of interesting things passing through. You'll also see shinkansen up top, hence Doctor Yellow, and any other plethora of EMUs/DMUs and freight in the middle.

Here's another... an older 283-Series Kuroshio. There aren't many of these running any more; they quickly upgrade the consists in Japan!

kuroshio

And the next day in the reverse order... must run a loop somewhere?

other-kuroshio

And here it is in its latest incantation with the Wakayama Adventure World livery (Yes, that's an angry PANDA)...

panda

And the Airport Express Haruka...

haruka

And the Super Hakuto...

super-hakuto

Which also has square-ended driving cabs...

hokuto-square

And the Thunderbird with its seriously long consist...

thunderbird

Which also has a pointer-other-end...

thunderbird

Note that they also sometimes run dead-headed back along the Tokaido line. I believe they'll then take the triangle south of Amagasaki and enter Osaka Station from the West end.

dead-head-tbird

And then a dead-heading past an actual T'bird service...

double-birds

And then sometimes you'll get unexpected movements... like this 117 Series (300 subseries) which usually only hangs around Kyoto and further East on the Kosei Line...
(Update: It was actually an end-of-year school excursion!)

117-series-green

The Wide-View Hida is a DMU that will take you out to Gifu and Takayama via Nagoya...

hida

They even sometimes slap an extra cab-car on the front to cater for busier mornings!

double-hida

Another DMU is the Hamakaze which will take you up to Tottori.

hamakaze

Freight also takes the inner lines when heading to Ajikawaguchi (down near USJ)...

aji-freight

And sometimes just runs as a light-engine...

light-engine

There's always freight running on the bottom-right lines, but usually only with single locos in the lead. Today an HD300 was being transferred inline.

hd300-load-balance

And again a few days later with an EF64-1000 series being transferred back to Hiroshima?

double-header

There's actually light-engine movements quite often... Here's a DE10 on the main freight line... (can you see it?)

de10

It returned West the next day...

de10-returning

Seems it was heading out to Kawasaki in Hyogo to pick up a brand new EMU. Here it is dragging the new set east...

de10-new-consist

The best part about Japan is their adherence to timetables... here's another DE10 running the same timeslot east. I wonder if it'll come back on the timeslot above?

more-de10

It sure did! So keep an eye out for the 0853 westbound and then a 1358 return slot! It had a string of very new-looking flats this time.

de10-flats

And then even a light EF64 running west on the main Tokaido track...

ef64-light

Aaannd... even a DD51 towing a single flat with rails?

dd51

And then it returned the next day, but on the line from Ajikawaguchi (or further south?)

dd51-rail-train

A DD51 has also been seen bolting Southbound towards osaka station on the standard passenger lines.

dd51-to-osaka

An EF210 hauled two railset flats on the mainline...

ef210-railset

And now I present a Blue 103 Series EMU, dead-heading along the Tokaido Line towards Kyoto!

blue-103

Which then returned 40 minutes later.

blue-103-return

If you're up early/late enough, then you'll also see the M250 Super Rail Cargo heading through Shin-Osaka...

super-rail-cargo

And again, for those early birds... a few minutes before the M250 you'll see the Sunrise Express Izumo/Seto (actually expected around 0420).

sunrise-express

In the afternoons, you even get cool planes flying over... the shadows are really cool!

plane-shadow

The goal is now to have a train on every track. So far I've got the current shot pegged as the most various....

lotsa-trains

I'll update this as interesting things happen.

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