>>50939276
You think that train was hired by the Aizu line to inspect the tracks, or was it simply passing through to some JR line?

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Steam train with cars and pusher diesel.

>>50942384
1AM seems like a strange time for it.

>>50942384
>>50942416
>>50942430
holy fugg, thanks for bringing it up, watching the footage now
>>50942407
they're probably moving it from winter storage or something like that to whatever line it's gonna run on for summer, just a wild guess

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>>50942573
forgot mah damn screencap

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>>50942575
having a sippy

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>>50942583

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>>50942610
wake and vape

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>>50942624

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I suppose having the Youtube rewind is very useful for times like this.

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Can't believe I missed the steam train, earliest I could rewind was back to a guy having a footbath at 4am. Very cool, it looks like the one from the old days of the Aizu stream.

>>50943245
God what a pixelated mess. I guess 2 minutes with a lot of movement on screen is push it too far.

>>50942583
So the thing under the green covers they installed in the last thread was a water pump for the steam engine.

Wait a minute, are they going to run the steam engine on this line now? I mean, why install a water pump when you can just use a water truck for a one-off stop? And they had the JR line inspection train going past a few days ago, perhaps it was checking the ability of the line to handle the stream train rather than just passing through? It is a scenic line with a famous historical stop, it would make sense to run a historical train on it...

>>50942384
This could be why >>50939276 was on the line the other day.

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0245 14/05/2026

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>>50944430
>>50944456
>>50944463
hot damn

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I knew it, they are definitely testing for steam train trips on this line!

I guess word got out, a lot more otaku this time than the night before. And it must be easy to get from the road on the left to the platform, I saw a few emerging from the bushes.

>>50944592
Where would the steam train reverse direction?

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>>50944906
Here.

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future Mothra here just getting his gains in for a minute

If an SL service starts up on the Aizu line, I wonder if it will just be from Aizu Tajima to Wakamatsu or if it will start in Nikko and do that whole run to Wakamatsu. That would be real nice (except the tunnels, perhaps).
If it does go from Nikko, on days that line up you could take SLs all the way from Nikko to Niigata.

Guys, I'm not positive but I think the SL was this one
https://www.steamlocomotivejapan.com/c11-325
which is associated with Tobu rail and operates on the same line that leads up to Aizu Tajima.