Thread 2024166

This stuff is ancient but I hope that it wasn't posted here before:

The construction of the Japanese Shinkanzen high-speed rails, form 1964.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iYjFOYLAtoE


Both the footage and the tempo if that of the '60s, so do NOT expect some twitch footage and on point editing.
But, I think you all would appreciate it, or - at least - should see this!

ps: use auto-subtitles. While at some point it it definitely an 'eh', it is better than nothing.

the original bullet trains were kino af

>>2024166 (OP)
the BGM is a weird mashup of mexican, italian, french, cold war nuclear education, and las vegas

>>2024166 (OP)
>Both the footage and the tempo if that of the '60s, so do NOT expect some twitch footage and on point editing.
My brother in Christ that's exactly the reason why I prefer to watch old films.

>>2024166 (OP)
simply amazing

>>2024166 (OP)
fuck, that was great, thanks.
/r/ more old documentaries

>>2024166 (OP)
Wished that guy finished his translation. It should be there for the first 10 minutes or so.

>>2030183
Here's another good one from the same time period, with translations. About the life of Japanese steam train crews.

https://youtube.com/watch?v=7esbkGHoWUs

Why do they only make documentaries about economically-sound train lines where everything went right? Shinkansen became much more interesting after the government starting building them for political purposes, bankrupted the JNR, and is now going through the same motions again in the form of JRTT which the government retained ownership of

>>2030237
Wasn't there a whole viral meme video about a chinese railroad boondoggle in africa?

>>2033340
if you're talking about "it's all so tiresome" that was a road building project iirc

i liek trains :]

>>2035616
Based, me too :}

>>2035628
same

>>2030183
Choiner ok?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OCQ8ehFs22w

>>2041099
is that the Oceangate Titan?

>>2041099
It's...a train.

>>2024166 (OP)
This one was shot on Film so there very few documentaries of that quality.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Afu9clEUinQ Here without the annoying black bars at the bottom.

There are however quite a few however about other stuff shot for TV.

Here a list of interesting ones.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3MbeW3y78Fo - Ueno being renovated for the Shinaknsen. It wasn't until 1985 that trains actually stoped here and people going to Tohoku had to take a relay train to Omiya.
https://www.youtube.com/shorts/TDmP3jcoYpQ - This is the relay train that you then had to switch from. This still happens technically in Hokkaido when goign to Sapporo via Super Hokuto. But an actual Relay Kamome train is now in use in Saga when going form Hakkata to Nagasaki you switch to the new N700S there.

https://www.youtube.com/shorts/u6_wPGikEpI - How the Dining Cars looked likein the 0 series.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JfMSffQornk - 20th anniversary onewith interviews of the original people that built it.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yRVjCaDw-Ro - 30th anniversary onewith interviews of the original people that built it.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zMQYxhUMv7I - Here a 40th anniversary one with interviews of the original people that built it.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z-4508zsUNk - A documentary about the 500 series probably the best and most iconic shinaknsen in existence.

>>2041099
You just know.

>>2052922
Know what?

>>2046477
Is it afraid?

>>2049693
>It wasn't until 1985 that trains actually stoped here and people going to Tohoku had to take a relay train to Omiya.
w-why didn't they just go to Tokyo Station? It's in the opposite direction but just four stops away, surely it would of been faster than taking a slow train all the way to Omiya first.

>>2056769
Couldn't remember off the top of my head, so I checked a reference book I have. Basically, budget at the time was very tight. Pretty much every shinkansen line project has gone massively over budget, and with the development of the Tohoku Shinkansen, the cost continued to increase further due to having to develop the line in response to protests regarding noise pollution. A lot of money was also wasted on development of the cancelled Narita line. Although, it was mostly the issues with protesting against noise pollution that made it impossible for them to get any closer to Tokyo at the time.
I can't find the pages talking about the development of the Shinkansen in Omiya station, but I assume that it was a combination of protests happening less frequently and more effort put into designing railways to dampen noise and vibrations via walls and viaducts.

Sorry for the necro, OP here, made another thread for the TGV:
Please check it out too:

>>2057867

>>2024166 (OP)
1 year anniversary coming in 2 hours

>>2057975
OMG you are right!

HEHE, I didn't check for that! :-)