Slow Burst

In my fourth grade of elementary school, in the spring in 1985, old passenger cars disappeared from the railroad running through the region I was in. New crimson passenger cars were used for all local passenger trains in the area.

I was disappointed then, because I liked old dull-blue or dark brown passenger car, influenced by my brother.

Steam locomotives had no longer been used years before I was born, so those passenger cars were drugged by ED75 electric locomotive.

Before I entered elementary school, electric car limited expresses and expresses were also running on the railroad, but they also disappeared when Tohoku Shinkansen bullet train line was in use in 1982.

Watching railroad cars was one of those my amusement, being somehow alienated in school, and once I began to talk about railroad cars, I never stopped before interrupted by the bell of beginning of the next class.

I had several picture books of express trains all over Japan, and dreamed about riding some of them, and sometimes I was sad hearing news of the abolition of a train in a book, one of them I was dreaming about taking some day in the future.