Coupling and uncoupling shinkansens at Morioka

[081952Alvaro]

Será que um dia teremos um trem assim aqui no Brasil? Du vi de o dó.

[nodariel]

This is truly thing beauty.

[OGICHI21]

Correct me if I am wrong but isn't this similar to Rush Hour where they double up the trains so its like right when rush hour starts

[Rocketboy1950]

@OGICHI21 OK I'll correct you. Yes they do this kind of thing in some places to cope with extra loading during rush hour but in this case it is because the trains are going to or coming from different lines.

[OGICHI21]

@Rocketboy1950 Ohhh I seee thank you for the info

[Nanostarification]

@Rocketboy1950 so the reason i because the train are going the same direction?

[Rocketboy1950]

@Nanostarification They couple them up to go to Tokyo

[gustav7133]

@OGICHI21  no it is used every time

[fordlukebo]

i can't figure out how they set up the system to couple up the engines, its confusing. i like the usa coupling style.

[Rocketboy1950]

@fordlukebo This system is only good for self propelled trains and trams. It cannot take any heavy stress like an automatic coupling. It is a good system that couples air and all electrical connections in one hit. I think you will find that it is in use in the US on modern streetcars and electric commuter trains. The couplings can be used as air only to isolate electrical faults between sets when there is a problem. Look up "scharfenberg". Wikipedia has a good page on all sorts of couplings.

[DirtyLittlePsycho]

how many years ahead is Japan of the U.S. in technology of all sorts?

[Rocketboy1950]

@DirtyLittlePsycho Probably not much at all, they just use it differently. Jaoan can't put a cruise missile through Kim Jong Ils bedroom window and the US can't apply themselves to building a better train set. They could do it, but the oil and airline lobby has too much influence.

[dirtyboy1111]

@xdaftpunkedX I agree with you...I am not a hater at all but I did not enjoy France because of the rudeness...on the other hand Viet Nam is one of the friendliest countries I have visited...as is most of Asia including Japan...

[materf1king]

1:20 train sex

[R3MUS2007]

we so need these kind of trains in the US.

[Rocketboy1950]

@R3MUS2007 You certainly do and I suspect that it may not be too long before you get some. Arnie was looking at them in Japan a couple of weeks ago and I understand that there are a few high speed lines being planned.

[R3MUS2007]

@Rocketboy1950 Id love to see these trains stop at major cities and just connect the whole country together. I hate having to rely on Air or car travel to go from state to state. I think trains are a more reliable, and certainly more scenic mode of transportation. I only heard of rumors of high speed lines connecting Las Vegas to San Francisco, but again only rumors. Nobody has yet to announce a cross country high speed passenger rail line.

[shtzi]

@R3MUS2007 You HAD German ICE-Trains there, You HAVE the Acela Express...

[R3MUS2007]

@shtzi yea but the Acela Express only connects Boston to Washington DC (and all the cities in between), Im talking about connecting all the major cities of the US across the whole country with high speed passenger lines.

[shtzi]

@R3MUS2007 Like... New York to L.A.? Well, see, the USA Is BIG. It would be SOOOOOOO Senseless to do that! I mean, more than a Million Miles of Rails?How long shall that take?! 4 Days?!

Nonononono... You certainly need Maglevs.

600km/h, VERY safe, Silent and Confortable.

[simhopp]

uncoupling? decoupling? which is it?

[Rocketboy1950]

@simhopp Uncoupling, which is why I used it in the title.

[SaltineCrackaAss]

Looks way too easy.

[airr916]

E3 looks really awesome...

[RobertsDigital]

Japanese are so good with Mechanics and Robotics.

Thats why they have the best Train system in the world today.

[Tjita1]

@RobertsDigital A japanese delegate almost fainted when he realized that the "-15" he saw on the monitor in the Swedish train control central he visited was actually minutes and not seconds. In Sweden 3 minutes delay at the end station is acceptable. In japan 12 seconds is the same limit.

[MacMakun]

It sees before. Thank you.

[efast00]

i like how the gap closes

[ks3298]

When two shinkansen trains are being coupled, they keep measuring the distance between them by radiating ultrasound from their couplers.

That is one of the reasons that two trains can be coupled very speedy and smoothly.

[kaihao96]

That's really advance. It was a joy to be on one of those.

[stormiluren]

That train looks like a cross between an Boeing and a Barracuda!

The really nice feature is the two-part extending cowling that hides everyting rather well, I bet it's a must-have in those speeds.

[CWREmployee]

That was pretty interesting, all automatic

[Rocketboy1950]

Push buttons in cab for seperation. Fully auto for coupling. Pretty much standard EMU couplers these days. They have isolating taps for air and can be switched to NON electric connection should a fault develop that is undesirable to have 'train lined' The closing of the nose cone is the part that the Japanese came up with although I imagine that all the European high speed stuff is the same these days.

[NutsandGuts]

isn't it decoupling?

[Rocketboy1950]

If it was then that's what I would have called it.

[NutsandGuts]

nevermind, too much electronics :P

[Rocketboy1950]

I figured that's where the term might be from

[asannei]

Interesante video

[FlyBikes089]

Awesome video!

[lacaunelover]

the shinkansen is very horrible! the most train from hight speed is the french's train the TGV!

[Rocketboy1950]

No argument about which is the fastest but unless you have travelled on a shinkansen you are in no position to make such an ill informed comment. Thats the polite version. The not so polite version is that you are a 14 year old no nothing dipshit ! As for France, beautiful country, great scenery,wonderful buildings. Been there twice and attempted to be robbed twice. Treated like shit by hotels and service providers. Been to Japan five times and never had a problem.

[NeoDerGrose]

I'm German and there are a lot of French how like us. Once I was greeted with "Sieg Heil". Fantastic.

(Beware of irony.)

[MrStaxxy]

@xdaftpunkedx

Yeah and most american trust dumbs stereotypes, and tends to generalize.

There is a little paradox hidden there, will you find it ?

[Keesecito]

Hear hear!

[r3dw0lf88]

i would like to thumb up your comment .. but can't so ... (Y)

[fuzionN]

train sex rite here

[Rocketboy1950]

sick puppy

[sognol]

Just like attaching Tait units at Flinders Steet in 1974.......NOT

[DocileBomb]

I can't tell the difference between them... HELP!

[Rocketboy1950]

Start at the optometrist

[DocileBomb]

Just by looking at the couplings, I can see a change in nose angle.

...but that's about it. What makes one an E2 and one an E3?

[Rocketboy1950]

Google byun byun shinkansen

[Rocketboy1950]

Byun Byun is gone. use Wikipedia

[DonAndrew309]

@DocileBomb

The Hayate train(E2) is coupled with Komachi train(E3) from Tokyo to Morioka.

The two trains are uncoupled at Morioka. E2(Hayate) will go to Shin-Aomori and E3(Komachi) will go to Akita.

[core1976scotland]

Awsome.

[jetmech001]

Aint that sexy!!! : )

[Rocketboy1950]

Largely depends on your sexual orientation. My personal preference for coupling up is with something that self lubricates.

[lyallsf]

classy

but I agree ;)

[adelgado75]

Great editing.

[produKtNZ]

Now that's a very trick system, for hiding the couplers on a high speed train!

Very innovative :)

[weeardguy]

@ ProduKtNZ: the same system (probably copied from the very wise Japanese people) is in use on the ICE and TGV trains. But on the ICE trains, it's completely unreliable: it happens very often that the doors won't close (do they are supposed to do so above 40 km/h)

[produKtNZ]

Wow, and that was a full year ago i said that :D hehe

[weeardguy]

@ produKtNZ: I tend to look at the comment without noticing the date... but I find it pretty funny someone reacts to my comment:D

[NeoDerGrose]

It isn't. The System was invented by the German engineer Karl Scharfenberg. Google for Scharfenberg coupler to find out more.

[weeardguy]

@ NeoDerGrose: I'm not talking about the coupler itself, but the 'hiding mechanism' that confines it at high speeds: that is probably copied from the japanese.

[NeoDerGrose]

No it isn't. I think the TGV was the first highspeedtrain wich had this kind of hiding mechanism. The first Shinkansen where long trains with 12 or more Waggons like the first generation of our ICE.

[Tjita1]

@NeoDerGrose Doesn't look like scharfenbergs though. The mechanical parts stick way longer into eachother and there are no steering rods underneath.

[NeoDerGrose]

@Tjita1 You're right, it looks a bit different.

[simhopp]

@weeardguy

Japanese have there own design EMU couplers,

TGV and ICE use variation of Scharfenberg couplers.

TGV for example use Dellner Coupler which is made in Sweden.

[weeardguy]

@simhopp Well.. to repeat what I said earlier: I'm not talking about the couplers itself... but the 'hiding-mechanism' of them, that is copied from the Japanese... and is working like shit here in Europe...