I am going to continue to show you my old photographs, which I recently rediscovered on my hard disk.
Toyohashi is the fifth-largest city in Aichi Prefecture, some 290 kilometers west of Tokyo. The population is about 374,000. It looks to be a local city like any other in Japan, but it is famous among rail fans because Toyohashi has a tram route operated by Toyohashi Railway (Toyotetsu). Toyotetsu is a local private railway company that operates the Atsumi and the Azumada main lines. The latter of these is a tram route in the downtown area. Its route length is 5.4 kilometers. The track is mainly double with some single sections. The electric system is 600 V DC overhead. The gauge size is 1,067 millimeters.
The electric car Mo3200 series is an old streetcar on the Azumada main line. It was built by Nippon Sharyo in 1955, under the name of the Nagoya Railway (Meitetsu) Mo580 series. It is a 12.3 meter-long streetcar with a passenger capacity of 80. After being operated on the Meitetsu lines, three units of the Mo580 series were moved to Toyotetsu and debuted as the Mo3200 series between 1976 and 1981. Currently, only one unit (unit 3203) of the Mo3200 series is operated on the Azumada main line.
Incidentally, the Mo3200 series is decorated and used as Hana-densha (flower train), when the city festival is held. I fortunately came across it, when I visited Toyohashi in 2016. That became a wonderful memory for me.
Toyohashi is the fifth-largest city in Aichi Prefecture, some 290 kilometers west of Tokyo. The population is about 374,000. It looks to be a local city like any other in Japan, but it is famous among rail fans because Toyohashi has a tram route operated by Toyohashi Railway (Toyotetsu). Toyotetsu is a local private railway company that operates the Atsumi and the Azumada main lines. The latter of these is a tram route in the downtown area. Its route length is 5.4 kilometers. The track is mainly double with some single sections. The electric system is 600 V DC overhead. The gauge size is 1,067 millimeters.
The electric car Mo3200 series is an old streetcar on the Azumada main line. It was built by Nippon Sharyo in 1955, under the name of the Nagoya Railway (Meitetsu) Mo580 series. It is a 12.3 meter-long streetcar with a passenger capacity of 80. After being operated on the Meitetsu lines, three units of the Mo580 series were moved to Toyotetsu and debuted as the Mo3200 series between 1976 and 1981. Currently, only one unit (unit 3203) of the Mo3200 series is operated on the Azumada main line.
Incidentally, the Mo3200 series is decorated and used as Hana-densha (flower train), when the city festival is held. I fortunately came across it, when I visited Toyohashi in 2016. That became a wonderful memory for me.
Official information about the electric cars on the Azumada main line (in Japanese):