two videos from northern Honshu

[miyakoji]

Here are two videos, related only vaguely through geography and snow...

First, by youtube contributor Dotaku, some scenes of JR East in the Niigata area.  115 series EMUs in various consists, in the second and third Niigata liveries--two of my favorites along with JRE's Nagano livery.  Bright sunshine on snowy scenery.

<a href="http://www.youtube.com/v/b-JQOmgp7n4" target="_blank">http://www.youtube.com/v/b-JQOmgp7n4</a>

Here we have the Tsugaru Railway, contributed by RAILWAYMOVIES.  To me this has an artistic flair something like nimo5's videos.  In particular, check out the scene starting around 1:50 as well as the semaphore signal at the end.  Good footage of Tsugaru's DD35 2 (wikipedia says DD35 1 is out of service right now) with the connecting rods and counterweights spinning around in the snow.  It's a "stove train" although I don't know if passengers cook octopus, squid, and other stuff like they can (could?) on some of JR Hokkaido's excursion services.  Seems like a good idea to me!

<a href="http://www.youtube.com/v/Q-5E11S9FQg" target="_blank">http://www.youtube.com/v/Q-5E11S9FQg</a>

[cteno4]

thanks miyakoji,

very nice! first he is good at finding nice framing on good scenes and setting his beginning and ending frames well on his pan and zooms as well as not getting carried away with them (the error of so many rr videos, they try to follow the train too much!) very swedish film feel to the snow scenes!

second has some nice angles. i like how he did some tele on a section of the train that made it feel like that part was going to come and bonk you on the head like you were standing by the track and cut away at just the right moment. also like the low platform angles.

i wish someone other than worldcraft did the dd-35 ($500 for an engine is a bit out of my budget range), the connecting rods and counter weights really make it looking interesting while running!

jeff