Rail crap (literally!)

[Nick_Burman]

http://www.1999.co.jp/eng/10159580

 


Cheers NB

[keitaro]

who wants to pay $142 us dollars for 1 wagon of crap?

[cteno4]

its the honey pot car! dont want to be downwind of a run of these! or worse yet a derailment!

jeff

[westfalen]

who wants to pay $142 us dollars for 1 wagon of crap?

But it's Japanese crap, you can bet it will be good quality.

[JRF-1935]

If they put these out in N scale, I'd probably buy a Crap load of them 
Rich C

[bill937ca]

If they put these out in N scale, I'd probably buy a Crap load of them 

And everybody on the board could contribute to your load!

[keitaro]

at n scale sizes you could squash ants to look like the real deal and not stink up the place.

remind me to never visit yours 

bill at nscale sizes i think 1 person would have no issue topping up. 

[JRF-1935]

If they put these out in N scale, I'd probably buy a Crap load of them 

And everybody on the board could contribute to your load!

Only if it's "quality Crap" 
Rich C

[JRF-1935]

at n scale sizes you could squash ants to look like the real deal and not stink up the place.

remind me to never visit yours 

bill at nscale sizes i think 1 person would have no issue topping up. 

Good Idea!  If I preserve them in laquer and add a little alcohol to the water mix, they might float and  look like the  real deal, with no smell of course 
Rich C

[The_Ghan]

Oh ... I thought it was another bad translation ... until I read the text ... lol

Cheers

The_Ghan

[Webskipper]

Sh*t.

Ship High In Transit.

[bikkuri bahn]

Railway transport of nightsoil is a business I wasn't aware of.

Here's a prototype pic of the Seibu car:
http://rail.hobidas.com/blog/natori09/to31nn02.jpg

The cars were filled with their liquid cargo from the top, and drained from the bottom, hence the v-shaped containment space.

This is a diagram illustrating this:
http://rail.hobidas.com/blog/natori09/to31fig03.jpg

Track diagrams of Seibu's nightsoil facilities, which were located on a dedicated siding adjacent to a station:
http://rail.hobidas.com/blog/natori09/to31fig04.jpg

Blog post where above came from:
http://rail.hobidas.com/blog/natori09/archives/2009/06/post-1037.html

Tobu also was involved in haulage of nightsoil.  Scroll down to the 12th pic, this is a nightsoil car ta 1.  On the far right of the carside is a warning "tobou kinshi", which means "kick shunting forbidden", for obvious reasons...
http://11.pro.tok2.com/~mu3rail/link133.html

[westfalen]

Looks like it was a reasonably big business for Tobu.

I remember once while looking at random Wikipedia articles reading that the same thing occurred on Britains railways in the late 19th century. You probably don't hear much about it because the railways likely didn't publicise it much like the transport of hazardous materials today.