A few weeks ago, I ordered a Plarail Yamanote Line E235 Series train from eBay. I was told the train would be delivered to my home in the Midwestern US between March 15th and March 28th, but I received a surprising but welcome early delivery notice from eBay a few days ago informing me that it would be delivered today, which it was. I've wanted a Yamanote Line train for a while, so I was pretty excited when opening it!
https://ibb.co/ryff1Lg
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The E235, like all modern Plarail trains in the S series, came packed with a cardboard collector card, which contains some facts about the train in Japanese. I can't read it of course, but it's still a nice touch. Also included was a sticker sheet with stickers representing the electronic destination signs seen on the real trains.
https://ibb.co/318Nx98
Since the Yamanote Line is circular, trains never need to reverse while in service, leaving the back destination sign on trains unused. Instead of a destination, JR uses the screen to display images of different Japanese plants, a different one for every month. The sticker sheet gives you all twelve, allowing you to customize the train for whatever month you'd like. I chose July since I like the flowers, and it's when my birthday is!
https://ibb.co/6PJcPCC
https://ibb.co/89KVWJp
The opening doors are also cool! I have no idea how they were able to fit the mechanism into such a small space and frankly I'm too scared I'd mess it up if I opened it!
https://ibb.co/s21Wy6j
Overall, a very cool train! Looking forward to running it on my layout, as well as building up a fleet of more trains to run with it!
(This post was last modified: 03-12-2024, 12:24 AM by SerialExperimentsTrain.)
https://ibb.co/ryff1Lg
https://ibb.co/1rGvNMt
The E235, like all modern Plarail trains in the S series, came packed with a cardboard collector card, which contains some facts about the train in Japanese. I can't read it of course, but it's still a nice touch. Also included was a sticker sheet with stickers representing the electronic destination signs seen on the real trains.
https://ibb.co/318Nx98
Since the Yamanote Line is circular, trains never need to reverse while in service, leaving the back destination sign on trains unused. Instead of a destination, JR uses the screen to display images of different Japanese plants, a different one for every month. The sticker sheet gives you all twelve, allowing you to customize the train for whatever month you'd like. I chose July since I like the flowers, and it's when my birthday is!
https://ibb.co/6PJcPCC
https://ibb.co/89KVWJp
The opening doors are also cool! I have no idea how they were able to fit the mechanism into such a small space and frankly I'm too scared I'd mess it up if I opened it!
https://ibb.co/s21Wy6j
Overall, a very cool train! Looking forward to running it on my layout, as well as building up a fleet of more trains to run with it!
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