Nice screenshot too! A nice line-up of the 100 Series!
Btw, I got a unknown asset by the MP car of the 100 Series JR West green livery. It's about <kuid:668654:101872>. Any idea what this could be?
It should be this one.
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Nice screenshot too! A nice line-up of the 100 Series!
Btw, I got a unknown asset by the MP car of the 100 Series JR West green livery. It's about <kuid:668654:101872>. Any idea what this could be?
Nice train! Will download it later.Merry christmas from Italy evryone!
As i mentioned yesterday, i have a present for you all - it's something that many desired for a long time and i'm sure it will make even more happy: the 100 Series Shinkansen!
JNR/JR Central/JR West blue livery on the left and the JR West lime green and dark grey livery for San'yo Shinkansen Kodama services on the right.
First of all, a Disclaimer: the cab car units of this pack might appear very similar to a Sketchup 3D model made by Satojii458, and avaible on the Sketchup warehouse. This is because i used Satojii458's model as reference for the nose shape and for other details. I did not convert directly his model into trainz. I did try to contact him a while ago to ask for permission to do a conversion, but as i got no reply, i've decided to go the longer but safer way. The models do indeed look similar, but there are several differences; for example, the nose cone is slightly shorter in my model. Furthemore, all of the intermediate cars are 100% my work.
Again, (in case the model's author reads this thread) i did not convert directly his model into trainz. I used his model only as a reference for the mesaurments and the complex shapes.
If Satojii458 has any issues with this current pack, he can contact me anytime and i will comply with any of his requests.
With that out of the way, all four versions are already avaible on my website.
Here for the JNR version, here for the JR Central version, here for the JR West blue-white livery and here for the JR West dark grey and lime green Kodama services livery.
In case of missing dependencies for the Kodama lime green livery sets, download this.
So, the 100 Series was the last Shinkansen train designed by JNR, entering service in 1985. They were intended to replace the 2nd batch of 0 Series sets, wich were manufactured in the mid-1970s (the 1st batch of 0 Series sets had already been replaced by the last batch of 0 Series sets, wich had been manufactured until 1986), and had begun to show clear signs of premature metal fatigue, caused by the continuos pressure changes when entering and exiting the many tunnels on the San'yo and especially the Tokaido Shinkansen.
Originally, JNR had intended to continue the production of 0 Series sets, with the introduction of yet another improved batch (having produced, and still manufacturing 0s for 20 straight years at the time), but as rolling stock technology had considerably improved over the last 20 years, JNR finally settled for an entirely new design, to be introduced on both the San'yo and Tokaido Shinkansen.
Classified 100 Series, the new Shinkansen trains were conceptually based on the lastest-batch 0 Series, but incorporated several technical fetaures from the much more advanced 200 Series for the Tohoku Shinkansen, wich had been introduced just a few years earlier, in 1982.
However, the most striking change was made in the exterior design: as by the early 1980s the 0 Series was no longer the image of the "world's fastest train", having been replaced by the striking orange of the French TGV PSE; JNR attempted to win that "image" back with the 100 Series by designing a slightly sharper nose with more-modern-looking horizontal headlights. These were permanently "white", but had an translucent red filter that was electrically lowered "curtain-style" to change the headlights color from white to red, making them taillights.
Another notable fetaure of the 100 Series was the introduction of two double decker cars in the middle of the consist- the first for a Shinkansen train: one was a panoramic buffet car and the other was a reserved-seating "Green Car".
Besides the standard blue-and-white livery, the two bilevel cars fetaured a sylized red "NS" ("New Shinkansen") logo on their sides; this was later removed upon the privatization of JNR.
Last, but not least, the 100 Series saw a brief return to the wide passenger windows, instead of the tiny aereoplane-like ones used on later-batch 0 Series sets to combat metal fatigue. As we know, after the 100 Series all Tokaido and San'yo Shinkansen trains went back to the small windows, starting with the 300 Series in 1992.
The iconic look of the 0 Series was kept, but updated in almost evry single aspect.
The design was finalized in 1984, and in the same year, produtction of the fist prototype set, formation X-1, began. The set was completd in early 1985 and began a series of trial runs on the Tokaido Shinkansen starting from the 27th of March of the same year. 100 Series regular revenue services began on the 1st of October 1985, when the X-1 prototype started running some Hikari services.
Full production sets eventually entered service starting from the 13th of June 1986. Like the prototype sets, these were manufactured by a consortium made of Hitachi, Kawasaki Heavy Industries, Kinki Sharyo, Nippon Sharyo and Tokyu Car Corporation, the créme de la créme of Japanese rolling stock manufacturers.
The full-production sets initially entered service without the double-decker cars; classified as G-formations and assigned to Tokaido Shinkansen Kodama services, they recieved the two double decker cars in November 1986 and were reclassified as X-formations and reassigned to faster Hikari services.
Eventually, by the time JNR was privatized in 1987, a total of seven plus one 16-car sets had been manufactured, with subsequent orders for the 100 Series being placed by the successors of JNR: JR Central and JR West.
JR Central was first, ordering a further 50 sets, classified as G-Formations. These were nearly identical to the X-formations, but without the buffet car, wich was replaced by another double-deck green car. JR West followed suit, ordering nine 16-car sets, classified as V-Formations for use on special "Grand Hikari" services. Nearly identical to JR Central's G-formations, JR West's Grand Hikari had 4 double-deck green cars instead of only two.
By 1992, when production of the 100 Series ended, a total of sixty-six 16-car 100 Series sets were in service, divided between JR Central (for Tokaido Shinkansen services) and JR West (for San'yo Shinkansen services).
While fast, comfortable and reliable, the 100 Series was well obsolete even before it entered service: in true JNR style (wich favoured well-proven solutions over innovative ones) the technical equipment, especially the electric one, was changed very little from the one of the original 0 Series sets of 1964.
Therefore, both JR Central and JR West started to jointly design an entirely new Shinkansen train, ditching as much former JNR influence as possible. The result of this design effort became the 300 Series, wich entered service in 1992, the same year that 100 Series production stopped.
The 300 Series was a radical departure from the JNR-designed Shinkansens, with it's energy-saving GTO-VVVF inverter control and the curved wedge front profile, replacing the aereoplane-like round one of older types. Entering service on Nozomi and Hikari serviceson both the San'yo and Tokaido Shinkansen, the 300 Series gradually displaced the 100 Series to slower Kodama services, replacing the lastest-batch 0 Series, wich were completely retired from Tokaido Shinkansen duties in 1999.
Eventually, with the introduction of the 700 Series in 1997, JR Central decided to finally replace all remaining 100 Series sets in service on the Tokaido Shinkansen. Set G49 was the last 100 Series set in service on the Tokaido Shinkansen, being retired on the 16th of December 2003.
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Merry Christmas indeed!! Thanks AlexMaria!! Feels like the missing link in the Bullet train family. As soon as I get a Shinkansen route set up on my layout I'll give this bad boy a spin!!
Hi Guys.
I wanted a more fitting cabin to the Shinkansen 100 so I reskinned Keimei's TEC0 Cabin. However when I edit the config file in the 100 the cabin ends up being too high in the train.
@ AlexMaria. Any idea's? I also can send you the texture file (in .TGA format) so you can use this as base material If you want to make a custom cabin.
This screenshot is from my old mac taken from a shinkansen 0. So this shot is at the right height.
However when I edit the configfile of the 100 then the cabin viewpoint ends up about 3 meter higher.
It's because of the attachment points. In my 100 Series, i've set the attachment point for the cab at a height of 2.5m, wich works fine with hirochi's cabs, wich have a dead-centre attachment. Evidently, Keimei's interiors have an attachment point that's ground-level, wich indeed means that when they're applied to my models, the cab will sit at a level too far high.
I'll make special keimei-cab version of the 100 Series driving cars, this should be good.
Well slowly but surly, I'm finding the missing kluids for pagroove's new layout. I've still got some ways to go. Happy New Year Everyone.