It’s mid-spring in Tokyo. The maximum daytime temperature exceeds 20 degrees Celsius every day. The best season of the year has come! I recently visited the Tama River bank on the Odakyu line.
As soon as I reached the embankment, what jumped into my eyes there was a double-double track railway bridge, "Odakyu Tama River Bridge". Five minutes later, my photo shooting target approached the bridge. It was the EMU Odakyu 70000 series, “Romancecar GSE (Graceful Super Express)”. GSE is the latest model of the Romancecar fleet. It has upper-deck cockpits, so, passengers can enjoy the view ahead from the top car. Furthermore, it has large side windows to secure a clear visual field for passengers. The body color of GSE is "rose vermilion". Please look at the top photo. GSE crossed Tama River, while taking the morning sun backed by the blue sky. Beautiful!
After enjoying the train shooting, I concentrated on another hobby… fossil collection. As I posted before, it’s my lifelong hobby. This time, the riverbed near Odakyu Tama River Railway Bridge was my field. We can observe many fossiliferous beds in the Iimuro Formation, which is the shallow marine sediments deposited about 1.3 to 1.1 million years ago. Please look at the photo below… my prey on that day, “Kagamigai (Dosinia japonica)”. It’s a large and thick rounded bivalve. Welcome back to the earthly world a little more than one million years later.
I served a double purpose on the Odakyu line.
