Fake shinkansen for Shikoku hillbillies

[Taro Toporific]

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JR Shikoku plans slowest-running 'bullet train'
KyodoPress 2013Oct01
...a one-car tourism train that Shikoku Railway Co. plans to run starting around March 2014...the only Japan Railway group company with no plans for high-speed shinkansen train services, jokingly calls it the slowest shinkansen, as the diesel-powered vehicle will look like an old generation bullet train and max out at 85 kilometers per hour...more...
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Report in Japanese: asahi.com/national/update/1001/OSK201309300127.html
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For comparison, here's the original "0 Series dangan ressha."

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Shikoku Railway Cultural Center

[Kanchou]

If they're going to do something special that only does 85 km/h (which is Special Olympics speed for anything but a switchback train) they should just make a train with an all-glass passenger compartment.

[Coligny]

It's called a panoramic car...

[Kanchou]

It's called a panoramic car...

I don't mean a regular panoramic car, I mean something like a one-piece bubble canopy so it looks like you're on a floating platform. It would be really expensive to build though.

[Taro Toporific]

The "O-Series" Shinkansen debuted the day before yesterday on the news.

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[Mock Cockpit]

Rice it up, it's Shikoku bitches.

[matsuki]

Needs more LEDs to truly be riced out...