November 03, 2020

Break Time!

Things are a little crazy out there in the world.  Sit back, relax, have a nice cup of beverage, and let's take a little train trip.

There.  Don't you feel much better now?  It's a fascinating little train line, some amazing sights and architecture on display.  It's also very very cramped in spots... at one point the train comes upon a work crew which appears to be standing in people's back yards to get out of the way.  The roadbed looks like it's exactly one one foot wider than the train in some parts of the line.  And then there's the street section.

An enterprising model railroader could probably do this entire line in one swell foop.

EDIT: Ed's comment got me thinking.  Despite my neurons being atrophied from lack of use, a connection was made and I went digging around in my yootoob links, and I found what I was looking for.

The Shonan monorail has its southern terminus at Enoshima.  I had watched at least one video involving it, and I knew that it wasn't a Union station with the Enoshima Electric line... monorail requirements being distinctly different from electrified train lines.  But did the videos intersect in any way?  Sure enough, they do!

First, the monorail terminus is visible during the previously mentioned street section of the video above. If you pause the above video at  the 22:53 mark (or follow this link), the monorail station is partially visible as an elevated white building with large windows at the end of the street, on the right.  It's only visible for a second or two however.  The train then rolls on to Stop EN6, the Enoshima station, coming to a halt at 23:47.  It stays stopped for two minutes, finally rolling off at 24:51... pause the video at that point.   

Oft mentioned videowalker Rambalac leaves the Shonan Monorail station at the 17:59 mark of this video.  He then begins walking south from the Enoshimaguchi Exit until at 19:07 he's approaching a set of train tracks..  Pause the video at this point.

On Rambalac's video, on the right is a cream-colored building with garage doors, and a black latticework item directly in front of a bright-white sign.  On the left is a green sign on the wall of a white building, that says "Enoden Goods Shop".  Now bring up Aunz Railfan's video.  Just visible on the left is a dark-colored sign on the wall of a white building.  Straight ahead is a white building with garage doors, and a dark latticework thing with a bright white sign.  Tah-dah!  There's the intersection of two videos.

Here's the screencaps, Rambalac first, Aunz second, with the reference points circled:


Ain't gonna lie... it's totally pointless stuff, I know. But man, do I enjoy playing "pointless detective" on things like this.  The little touch of joy when I confirmed the two crossed was probably an overreaction on my part, but it was still there.

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1 1.  I really enjoy "behind the scenes" videos such as this.  Reminds me of how my wife and I would just randomly wander around cities in Europe, stumbling upon things that were at once banal and amazing.
2.  The line from "The Blues Brothers" came to mind:  "How often does the train go by?"  "So often you won't notice it."

Posted by: Clayton Barnett at November 04, 2020 12:49 PM (ug1Mc)

2 What I like to do with these kinds of videos is to follow along on Google Earth.

Enoshima is where "Umisho" was set!

Posted by: Ed Hering at November 04, 2020 08:38 PM (/cXdK)

3 Damn, more detective work like that and they'll make you an honorary 4-Channer.

Posted by: Mauser at November 07, 2020 09:23 PM (Ix1l6)

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