急行「ていね」 (1) |
Express "Teine" (1) |
Express “Teine” operated on Hakodate Main Line was quite famous among Japanese rail encomiasts in 1960's. The train was call “Teine” when I started railway photos, and changed its name to “Niseko” later. So “Niseko” may be more common among people, but I stick on the old name “Teine.” I can imagine only ski area from the name of “Niseko,” not the train. This train was hauled by two JNR (Japanese National Railway) C62 class locos on mountainous sections of Hakodate Main Line. See bottom of the page for description of C62.
急行「ていね」です。「ニセコ」のほうが一般的でしょうが、私は以前の名の「ていね」にこだわるのです。私にとってニセコってスキーのイメージなんです。せっかくの重連なのに一両しか見えませんね。確か三月の終り頃で雨が降っていて、線路から湯気が上っていました。倶知安にはさんざん通ったけど、どうもいい「ていね」の写真ってないんですよね。このC62 44は確か調子のいい罐だったと思います。有名なC62 2は機関士には不評でした。今気がついたんだけど、４４には不細工なシールドビームがついてないんですね。PhotoShopで消したんじゃありませんよ。 It rained in late March and the rain generated fog just above the ground. It was taken at “Kuccyan,” gate town to “Niseko” ski resort. JNR C62 Class |
This night photo was taken with Kodak Recording Film, very high speed ASA1600, and processed with four times speed enhancement development. That means ASA6400 equivalent. Anyway exposure meter did not work at all under this poor lighting. Exposure was only guess work. JNR C62 Class X 2 and 9600 Class |
私はシールドビームもクルクルパー（回転火の粉止め）も大嫌いで呪っておったのです。 No.2 of C62 had swallow marks on her smoke deflectors and was called “Swallow Angel.” She used to haul limited express “Tsubame (Swallow)” on Tokai-dou Main Line.
JNR C62 Class
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上目名の「ていね」。でも補機がD51ですね。よく補機D51ってあったんですが、写真を撮ってる方としてはとてもがっかりするわけです。 Some times D51 class was used for helper loco and disappointed many rail photographers waiting for double headed C62's. JNR D51 Class + C62 Class |
“Teine” ran through blizzard. JNR C62 Class |
これは現像ムラがひどくてどうなるのかと思いましたがPhotoShopのおかげで何とかなりました。素人現像だったので現像ムラは多いですね。 This photo has heavy unevenness on development. My development technique was poor and many shots have uneven development.I edited this to reduce the unevenness using PhotoShop.
左が未修正です。すごいムラですね。 Original phot without editing.
JNR C62 Class |
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The C62 class (4-6-4) was the most powerful passenger steam loco ever built in Japan and held a world speed record (129km/h) of narrow gauge steam loco (3' 6”) in 1954. Only 129K/h? It does not seem so fast now days, but was great then! JNR only built freight locos in the WWII to fill the military transport requirement, like D51 and D52 classes. After the end of the war the situation changed to totally opposite direction. They needed more passenger locos to cope with people's movement toward their home. However GHQ (General Head Quarter of occupying American military) did not allow JNR to build enough new locos. So JNR cheated Americans offering a modification plan from freight locos to passenger locos. If you are familiar with steam locos, you can know this proposal is bullshit straight away. However Americans approved the idea. The “modified” locos were virtually brand new machines. Only boilers and auxiliaryequipment were reused, and all others were newly designed and manufactured. They “modified” D51 class to C61 class and D52 class to C62 class in 1948 and 49. Both C61 and C62 employed 4-6-4 arrangement firstly introduced in Japan. C62's were used on 1st class main lines to haul express and limited express trains. C61's were smaller than C62's and used on 2nd class main lines in the same purposes. C62's had a capability to reduce the drive axle weight to suite to 2nd class main lines with small modifications and they were called light weight type. The C62's used in Hakodate Main Line were all light weight type. |
C62 2のナンバープレートの位置ってちょっと高過ぎですね。上のC62 44のほうがずっといい位置だと思います。それにシールドビームが醜いなー。
吹雪の「ていね」。こんなに降ってると見通しが悪くてなかなかまともの撮れなかったんですね。
