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| Electric car Mo 755 of the Nagoya Railway 750 series |
Because of the 3rd state of emergency caused by the new coronavirus, I refrain from any non-essential and non-urgent outings. I have no choice but to continue introducing trains from photos I recently rediscovered on my hard disk. Ibigawa is a small town in Gifu Prefecture, about 420 kilometers west of Tokyo. I visited this countryside in 2016 to see two old electric cars preserved in an abolished station. I've already introduced one of them, namely Mo 514, so, I'm going to introduce another one named Mo 755 today.
Mo 755 was operated on the Nagoya Railway in the past. It was built by Nippon Sharyo in 1928 as one of the DeSeHo 750 series (later Mo 750 series) electric cars. Ten cars of the DeSeHo 750 series in total were built at the time, but only Mo 755 is preserved perfectly in its original form. Mo 755 is a semi-steel car with a length of 15 meters. The electric motors, the electric control system and the bogies were domestically made, but their technologies were imported from the U.K. (The English Electric Co., Ltd.) and USA (Baldwin Locomotive Works).
This precious electric car was operated on the Tanigumi line of the Nagoya Railway until 2001, and preserved in the yard of ex-Tanigumi station. In other words, Mo 755 electric car and the Tanigumi line were both abolished in 2001. The gauge size of the Tanigumi line was 1,067 millimeters and the electric system was 600 V DC overhead.
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| The interior of Mo 755 |