The missing Linimo photos
Wed 22 Aug 07 01:38 | Tags: Hardware, Japan
Way the heck back in March, I wrote an article entitled "Riding the Linimo: The train tech of tomorrow." It was about my experience on the Linimo, a maglev train line near the city of Nagoya, Japan. At the time, I lamented the fact that the photos I had taken had fallen into a digital black hole, never to be seen again… It turns out that they, along with almost all my other photos in Japan, were actually safe and cozy on the hard drive inside my old, dead laptop. When I recently bought a 2.5-inch drive enclosure and put my laptop drive in it to use as a back-up drive, I was more than a little pleased to rediscover those pictures, tucked away and patiently waiting for me to find them. Please allow me to share them with you here. (But be sure to go back and read the original article first, if you haven't already.)
Click on the thumbnails for larger images. The images have been downscaled somewhat for faster downloading. If you're a train nerd and want some higher-res versions of these photos, just let me know and I'll pass 'em on to you.
Here's a train pulling into the station. Note that the rails are elevated quite high above the ground, so the stations are often more vertical than horizontal; you buy your ticket on the ground floor, then take the stairs or elevator to the tracks up above. It's kind of backwards from how a subway works.
Now the train is pulling out of the station. The Ferris wheel in the background is a left-over from the 2005 World's Fair, which the line was built to service.
The entrance to one of the stations, and a ticket vending area. The chart on the right shows the prices for a ticket to the various stations. Each station is badged with a symbol colored in boring grey and some other color - rather ugly, in my opinion.
A close-up of the tracks, such as they are, and a shot of the tracks going off into the distance. (Note that it had been raining recently.) If I hadn't known better, I would have had a hard time identifying them as train tracks; they're flat like boards. Very strange.
Finally, a shot of the interior of a very empty station. As I said in the original article, everything looks very new and modern compared to older stations, for obvious reasons. The bright lighting is also a welcome change from your standard subway station.
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