Happy New Year! In 2016, I wish you may keep watching and supporting my blog.
My first photographing in 2016 was "New Year Express" on Chichibu Railway Chichibu Main Line. Though its timetable is the same as the regular operations, the Chichibu Railway 6000 Series runs with the special front sign on the first three days of January every year. It was first time for me to photograph this train.
Where I photographed was between Urayamaguchi and Bushu-nakagawa to shoot from the a low angle to use the gap between the railway and the path along it. The carriage I photographed was 6001F set. The image of the first photograph is that the train powerfully running from the mountains.
On the front sign, Theemavotive picture on which the name of the train was written and a monkey, the year symbol animal of 2016 in the Chinese astrology, was designed.
Moving to Mitsumineguchi Station, I also met 6003F set, whose body colour changed to the brown one which was used on the old carriage and had a different design sign looking like the one for old Japan National Railway's express trains. I photographed the carriage in two compositions; whole set against the mountains and featuring its front.