Cab view of Kurihara Den-en Railway in Spring

Cab view starts from 3:24 Kurihara Den-en Railway was originally constructed as Kurihara Tramway in 1921, to connect Tohoku Mainline of Japan National Railway and Hosokura mine in Miyagi Prefecture. Because of the closure of Hosokura mine in 1988, the railway service was transferred to the local goverment in 1993. The railway was originally electrified, but trains were switched to diesel cars at that time. The footages in this movie was taken in 2006, most of the poles and overhead wires were still remained. And we could see some semaphores and tokens for the single track operation. The line was finally abandoned in 2007.