Rokuhan - T031-1 - Locomotive, Electric, Series 489 - Japan Railways West - 5-Pack

Specific Item Information: The Series 489 train is based on the Series 485 train. This train is equipped with an EF63 class electric locomotive for crossing the steep mountain pass called Usui Pass. The "Hakusan" head mark is attached, but replacement parts are also included. The "Hakusan" and "Noto" trains run between Ueno and Kanazawa. "Asama" runs between Ueno and Nagano. "Hakutaka" is a train between Kanazawa and Echigo Yuzawa (a famous hot spring resort in Japan).

- A motor car is included.- To light the Room inside, A030 (front/tail car) and A009 (Middle cars)(sold separately) are applicable.- Minimum radius to run is R95. - Head mark is attached.- MOHA489-20 is a "lounge & convenience car." (We could enjoy a light meal in this car.) The windows are different from other cars."HAKUSAN" is permitted by West Japan Railway Company.

Road Name History: JR-West was incorporated as a business corporation (kabushiki kaisha) on April 1, 1987 as part of the breakup of government-owned Japanese National Railways (JNR). Initially, it was a wholly owned subsidiary of the JNR Settlement Corporation (JNRSC), a special company created to hold the assets of the former JNR while they were shuffled among the new JR companies.

For the first four years of its existence, JR-West leased its highest-revenue line, the Sanyō Shinkansen, from the separate Shinkansen Holding Corporation. JR-West purchased the line in October 1991 at a cost of 974.1 billion JPY (about US$7.2 billion) in long-term payable debt.

JNRSC sold 68.3% of JR-West in an initial public offering on the Tokyo Stock Exchange in October 1996. After JNRSC was dissolved in October 1998, its shares of JR-West were transferred to the government-owned Japan Railway Construction Public Corporation (JRCC), which merged into the Japan Railway Construction, Transport and Technology Agency (JRTT) as part of a bureaucratic reform package in October 2003. JRTT offered all of its shares in JR-West to the public in an international IPO in 2004, ending the era of government ownership of JR-West. JR-West is now listed on the Tokyo Stock Exchange, Nagoya Stock Exchange, Osaka Securities Exchange and the Fukuoka Stock Exchange.

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