#last run

[aquayurufuwatraveler]

2025.2.2 埼玉 新座　MU43編成発車 トタ81編成通過

武蔵野線E231系と中央線209系1000番台

転属して欲しいけど多分209系1000番台最後の自走

Probably the LAST run of Series 209-1000

[retrocgads]

UK 1982

[merpmonde]

381 series: the last of the JNR-era electric express trains

We mentioned the upcoming withdrawal of the Doctor Yellow Shinkansen track inspection trains, but there is another retirement I've wanted to talk about as it's just happened, and it's a train I had the chance to ride last summer.

Launched in 1973, the 381 series was the Japanese National Railways (JNR) first tilting electric express train, designed to speed up the Shinano limited express services on the winding mountainous route between Nagoya and Nagano. The tilting compensates for G-forces inside the carriages, allowing the train to take curves up to 25 km/h faster without creating passenger discomfort. As such, it is already a significant piece of railway history, with JR Tokai preserving one lead car at its SC Maglev Railway Park museum in Nagoya.

Over the next 50 years, the 381s would be moved around whenever they were superseded on specific routes, but soldier on nonetheless. Their last services would be JR West's Yakumo limited express between Okayama and Izumo, another route with lots of hills and curves. Now, it is replaced by brand new 273 series sets, based on JR West's current express train design, still with tilt.

The 381 series lived through the entire L-tokkyû period, in which many limited express services were marketed with an L symbol signifying higher levels of convenience. This logo was phased out in the 2000s and 2010s largely due to all JR limited expresses running to L-tokkyû standards, and as far as I can tell, the 381s are likely the last trains to wear the L badge, as well as the classic JNR express chevron seen above, on a regular basis.

さようなら381系

[my-b-side-life-aii]

さよなら～VSE ‼ メインブログ: My B Side Life *Hyper  先行公開‼

小田急電鉄 小田急ロマンスカーVSE ラストラン

※VSE♡ラストラン～色鮮やかな花環を添えて…。※

[marmarinou]

“MILW eastbound #2 Afternoon Hiawatha stops at station behind FP7, FP45 (102C....) Last run of this train.”

Glenview, Illinois

January 28, 1970

Photo by Paul Enenbach

(via Glenview, Illinois, 28JAN'70 | MILW eastbound #2 "Afternoon … | Flickr)

[stressedboyz]

LAST RUN

[picturesquephysics]

“A collision of protons captured today at the Large Hadron Collider. Today (23/05/17) marks the first day of data-taking since early December at the world's most powerful particle accelerator, which underwent extensive maintenance. Researchers hope to pin down the properties of the Higgs boson, follow up on some anomalous data from previous runs, and perhaps catch a glimpse of new physics.” - Physics Today 

Image credit: CERN

[be-freckled]

Let’s hope we can remain the way we are (or better) when Ramadan leaves us...