I modified Rizky's original 205-0 mesh. So the cabin is still in 205-0 shape
heres the link:
https://drive.google.com/open?id=1ILFmTulwmlGCe4och1hKgAzAx6zQv6i8
shout out to rizky for sharing his 205 model.
Nice!
Now the only variant left of the 205 Series is the questionable-looking Sagami Line 205-500 Series (and maybe even the 207-900 Series, wich is just a 205 Series bodyshell with a front emergency door).
I have something new too - i've finally finished the Tokyu 8090 & 8590 Serieses pack!
DOWNLOAD (errors fixed)
As with the Tokyu 1000 Series pack, all the dependencies are either included in this pack or are avaible on the DLS,
except for the pantographs wich must be downloaded from Rizky's website (they're included in the freeware EMU packs).
The consists avaible are:
1980 - mid 90s - Tokyu 8090 Series (low headlights, old windows) - Toyoko Line - 8-car set
1980 - mid 90s - Tokyu 8090 Series (high headlights, old windows) - Toyoko Line - 8-car set
mid 90s - 2006 - Tokyu 8090 Series (low headlights) - Toyoko Line - 8-car set
mid 90s - 2006 - Tokyu 8090 Series (high headlights) - Toyoko Line - 8-car set
1997 - 2014 - Tokyu 8590 Series - Denentoshi Line - 10-car set
2014 - 2019 - Tokyu 8590 Series - Denentoshi Line (later years) - 10-car set
2006 - 2011 - Tokyu 8090 Series (low headlights) - Oimachi Line - 5-car set
2006 - 2013 - Tokyu 8090 Series (high headlights) - Oimachi Line - 5-car set
2006 - 2013 - Tokyu 8590 Series - Oimachi Line - 5-car set
2006 only - Tokyu 8090 Series (no logos) - Oimachi Line - 5-car set
2010 - today - Chichibu Railway 7500 Series (low headlights) - 3-car set
2010 - today - Chichibu Railway 7500 Series (high headlights) - 3-car set
2013 - today - Chichibu Railway 7800 Series - 2-car set
2013 - today - Toyama Chiho Railway 17480 Series (former Oimachi Line cars) - 2-car set
2019 - today - Toyama Chiho Railway 17480 Series (former Denentoshi Line cars) - 2-car set
A little bit of history...
The Tokyu 8090 Series was designed in the mid-1970s to be a testbed for new rolling stock manufacturing tecniques. It's main fetaure was it's use of a lightweight stainless-steel body developed by Tokyu Car Co. (nowdays J-TREC, it was a rolling stock manufacturer formerly owned by Tokyu Railway itself) using a computerized mathematical analysis program to calculate strain and fatigue, derived from those used in aircraft design, wich resoulted in a bodyshell about 24% lighter (a weight reduction of 2 tons per car or about 8% for a whole train) than conventional stainless-steel ones (such as those used on Tokyu's 8000 and 8500 Series trains).
This actually made the 8090 Series one of the world's first trains desinged with the help of computers, and this type of lightweight stainless steel bodyshell was subsequently used on many other trains, peaking in 1985, when it was selected by JNR (with a few modifications) to be the bodyshell of what was to be it's "savior commuter train": the 205 Series.
Back to Tokyu, two prototype intermediate motor cars (DeHa 8401 and 8402) were manufactured in 1978. Inserted into a 8000 Series formation, they entered service on the Toyoko Line in the same year, and in 1980, the production of the new trains was started.
Originally intended to be classified as "9000 Series", they were later renumbered as the "8090 Series", making them part of the large 8000 Series family.
It might seem odd as they look completely different, but besides the bodyshell, the 8090 Series is actually very close to the 8000 Series, in fact they use the same bogeys, motors, pantographs, shunt-chopper traction control and other equipment, making them perfectly compatible (as said before, the two prototype motor cars were actually ran in a 8000 Series set).
The first 8090 Series trains entered service on the Toyoko Line on the 27th of December 1980, replacing the older 18m 3-door trains (5000, 5200 and 6000 Series), wich were displaced to the Oimachi Line.
The first three production sets had lower headlights, but from the fourth onward, the headights were placed at a more conventional middle-height. Eventually, all the older stock was displaced from the Toyoko Line by the mid 1980s.
An unexpected issue...
At the same time, the MinatoMirai Line project was brought forward jointly by Yokohama City and Tokyu Railway. The all-underground subway-like line was to serve the MinatoMirai development area, providing trough-service with the Tokyu Toyoko Line.
This proved to be quite a considerable problem for Tokyu Railway, as it's newest trains, the 8090 Series, couldn't be used on the new line: evry train running on subway or underground subway-like lines is required by Japanese Law to have (among other fetaures) a front emergency escape door, wich the 8090s lacked.
To solve this problem, Tokyu started the production of a modified version of the 8090 Series. Using the same bodyshell, but with the required front door, the 8590 Series entered service in 1988. This time, it was to be part of the 8500 Series family (itself also derived from the 8000 Series).
Actually, only cab cars were produced: a total of 10 (enough for 5 sets). The necessary 30 intermediate cars (6 + 2 cab cars per 5 sets) were obtained by an extensive re-formation of the 8090 Series fleet, wich resulted, among other things, in a 8090 Series set being reduced to 5 cars and moved to the Oimachi line and a conspicuous surplus of cab cars, wich remained stored at Tokyu's Nagatsuta depot for a while.
Time goes on, but the Minatomirai Line isn't ready yet...
In the mid-1990s, the whole 8090 Series fleet underwent the change of it's front windows, from a wide single one to three smaller ones (similar to the ones on 8590 Series trains) wich were easier to change if they were damaged.
At the same time, following the introduction of the actual 9000 Series and a Toyoko Line timetable change, another couple of 8590 Series sets became surplus. These were lenghtened to 10-car sets in 1997 and transferred to the Denentoshi Line, running Subway trough-services (TRTA's Hanzomon Line) as well, a first for the 8090/8590 Series family. Among the other things, they were also fitted with the round "K" sticker, wich indicated that these trains were not equipped with a radio compatible with Tobu railway's one, and thus were barred from running on the Tobu network.
... and when it opens, it's too late!
When the Minatomirai opened in 2004, Tokyu had already been carrying out a massive replacement of rolling stock with it's new 5000 Series. The 8590 Series did actually ran on the MinatoMirai line as it was intended, but only for a very short time: 2 years.
By 2006, both the 8090 and the 8590 Series trains on the Toyoko line were displaced by 5050 Series trains and transferred to the Oimachi Line, just like what happened to their predecessors in the 1980s.
Tranquility on the Oimachi Line (and on the Denentoshi Line too)...
Reformed into 13x 5-car sets, both 8090 and 8590 Series trains entered service on the Oimachi Line in 2006, replacing ther relatives, the 8000 and 8500 Series set, wich were later resold to third-sector railways (Izukyuko, Nagaden...) or abroad (to Indonesia).
At the same time, a new livery based on orange and yellow was introduced for Oimachi Line trains, to help distinguish them from Denentoshi and Toyoko Line trains. The most notable fetaure of this livery were the front "graduated" orange/yellow line, wich became the icon of the Line, and the Oimachi Line's own logo, wich is composed by a large arrow (the Oimachi Line itself) crossing several other smaller ones (the rest of Tokyu's network), a representation of the Line's route and function.
The two Denentoshi Line 10-car sets also still ran trouble free.
...Maybe.
When the Fukutoshin Line opened in 2013 and trough-services began on both sides of the Toyoko Line, Tokyu introduced an upgraded variant of the 5050 Series: the 5050-4000 Series, wich entered service in the same year, displacing 9000 Series sets to the Oimachi Line, in turn replacing in turn all the 8090 and 8590 Series trains already in service on the line, wich were all retired by late 2013.
Fast forward to 2019, the last two 8590 Series trains in service on the Denentoshi Line were replaced by Tokyu's 2020 Series (named after the summer Olympics), introduced a year earlier.
The last 8590 Series train was retired on the 27th of February 2019.
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