JR East rolling stock lost during the 2011 Tohoku earthquake

[SuRoNeFu 25-501]

It's sad like when they cut up that ed75 that stayed on the rails while the rest of the line and the town around it was swept away. They could have just left it there as a monument.

In fact, JR Freight's ED75s have been largely displaced by EH500s before the earthquake disaster occurs (at the time of disaster, only few ED75s that remained in JR Freight's ownership), so they decided to scrap it instead of repairing it...

Edited March 5, 2016 by SuRoNeFu 25-501

[katoftw]

Was looking on google maps.  Looks like the line down to Odaka (at least) from Haranomachi is completed with fresh light gray unweathered ballast.  Lots of construction vehicles present at the stations.  The station platforms and buildings would be the last part of the puzzle.

 

Below is a photo sphere from Sep 2015 at Mono-Uchi Station.  It shows what 4.5 years of decay does to a station.  Can only imagine the amount of work to get these lines and stations up and running again.

Edited March 13, 2016 by katoftw

[Kabutoni]

There are talks about reopening the closed section in 2020: http://the-japan-news.com/news/article/0002792158

[Densha]

What in that article is really new, non-political talk, news? JR East was/is already working on reopening the Joban Line as much as possible. The "Tomioka-Namie part near the nuclear plant" cannot be opened anytime soon however you look at it because it's in a radioactive area. Or is it just me being tired and missing the point of the article?

[Kabutoni]

It's mostly political blabbering to make people feel like the Abe administration is doing something in the name of progress.

[katoftw]

 

http://www.asahi.com/articles/ASJ3J7HX4J3JUQIP03G.html

[Suica]

I wonder what's going to happen to this set now.

[Sacto1985]

I wonder what's going to happen to this set now.

 

Given it has been sitting in the elements for five years, my guess is that will will be shipped to a scrapyard and broken up. Watch for the possibility of truck transport to the scrap yard in Nagano.

[Suica]

Yeah, considering that the 651 series is already rather old.

 

But wouldn't it be more profitable to sell it to a local scrap business? And then again, they loaded it quite carefully, but maybe that's how they always do it?

Edited March 24, 2016 by Suica

[katoftw]

It has already been stated in this thread that it will be scraped.

[railsquid]

The linked article says it's being taken for dismantling to the Koriyama Depot (郡山総合車両センター), where they seem to have some practice in these things.

 

Edited March 24, 2016 by railsquid

[kvp]

So road transport is cheaper than rail or JREast didn't want to wait for the rail link to the north to be restored? (are there any plans for it?)

[katoftw]

Northern link isn't complete yet.

[kvp]

Couldn't they wait until it's ready or that would be too long?

[ConnieCommie]

I'm curious; aside from Super Hitachi No.50 and a 415-1500 set was any other trainset lost in the March 2011 disaster?

[Davo Dentetsu]

There was an ED75 that had its entire train wiped out, but it stood upright and defiant to the tsunami.  It was cut up unfortunately.

[Kiha66]

I really do wish ED75 1039 had been saved, it would have made a good monument or at least should have been preserved in a museum.  I know a number of Kiha 40s and 48s were lost as well, along with JNR Kiha 40 519 which had been preserved as a community center.
http://blog-imgs-34.fc2.com/d/e/n/denshawotorou/DSC_2806.jpg
https://archive-shinsai-photo.west.edge.storage-yahoo.jp/26322.jpg

http://www.asahicom.jp/shinsai_fukkou/multimedia/compare/images/compare2014_miyagi_onagawa_1.jpg

https://blog-001.west.edge.storage-yahoo.jp/res/blog-23-bd/yasuziro34/folder/1608541/88/53364588/img_1?1300938100

Edited October 30, 2018 by cteno4
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[Socimi]

A Senseki Line 205-3100 series 4-car set was also heavily damaged by the Tsunami. 

[Gryphr]

2 E721 series sets had been lost as well, with one of the cars being deformed almost beyond recognition:

 

http://www.geocities.jp/yuji00733119/tsunami/index3.html

http://denshawotorou.blog73.fc2.com/blog-entry-447.html

 

 

Edited October 30, 2018 by Gryphr

[Suica]

C58 16, which was on display near Shizugawa station was swept away and then scrapped in 2012

http://kirokueiga.seesaa.net/pages/user/m/article?article_id=193876312&page=3

https://www.flickr.com/photos/watanave/6942762794/

 

More:

Ofunato Line KiHa 100 https://www.shinchosha.co.jp/railmap/blog/2011/09/05.html

Kamaishi Line KiHa 100 https://blogs.yahoo.co.jp/haruhi8987/8869728.html 

 

[Yavianice]

Sad that all of these got scrapped, especially the steam loco.

 

Besides destroyed trains, there were also the two trapped trains at Haranomachi station since the Joban line was destroyed north and south of the station, leaving the trains abandoned. Sadly, they were already removed (and scrapped, I take it?) a few months before I visited the area in 2016.

 

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Haranomachi_Station#/media/File:JR_HaranomachiStation_121126_a.jpg

[ConnieCommie]

Could be worse. In Chernyobl they just left the trains there to rot.

[Suica]

1 hour ago, ConnieCommie said:

Could be worse. In Chernyobl they just left the trains there to rot.

Unlike the trains shown in this thread, those are highly contaminated. Have fun cutting up an radioactive train.

 

 

[kvp]

6 hours ago, Yavianice said:

Sad that all of these got scrapped, especially the steam loco.

Yes, just leaving the ED75 and the steam loco there would have been nice, but i guess JR east didn't want to remind people that there was a line and lots of cities there in the past. As far as i know there are no plans to restore the whole Joban line in the near future, although the section going through the nuclear exclusion zone is planned to be reopened in 2020, at least according to wikipedia.

[Kiha66]

From what I remember, a (few?) sections were converted to bus only roads.  As they are much cheaper to run (often the road is paid for and maintained by the government rather than by the rail company) and the demand for more capacity isn't really there, I expect JR probably would like to keep the lines bus only rather than have to pay for a little used (compared to their busy routes) rail line out in the boonies.