Showing Gratitude to Doctor Yellow for Supporting Safe Train Operation Soko Takai, Manager of the Sales Section, Transportation Sales Department, Shinkansen Railway Business Division of JR Tokai, who was in charge of this event, said, “We wanted to provide a place where we could say goodbye to the T4 train at the closest point to it and show our gratitude to it. Although the inspection cars are not commercial vehicles, they check the status of track, electric power, signals, communications, and other facilities while running, and this is what ensures safe and stable transportation. The popularity of Doctor Yellow has brought this “behind-the-scenes” role into the spotlight. Even if we don’t know the details of their “work,” it is meaningful just to let people know that there is such a vehicle. Then, as a “token of appreciation,” they would say, “Let’s clean them up and give them a good cleaning. However, there are some issues that need to be resolved before the event can actually take place. We took care to make sure that the guests would leave safely and satisfied with their visit, since they do not usually enter the rail yard,” said Takai. In the first place, train yards are not designed for outsiders to enter. So, for example, a warning sign was placed on the fence of the work platform. And because it would be dangerous to have 25,000 VAC electricity flowing on the train lines overhead, the power transmission was stopped on line 9 of the inspection depot where the event took place (each line can change whether or not to transmit power). However, if the power transmission is stopped, the lighting and air conditioning inside the cars will not work. Therefore, it became necessary to temporarily install lighting inside the cars. In addition to this, the track was covered from above in all areas where the train crossed the tracks in the middle of the line to prevent tripping when crossing the tracks. And on track 10, an N700S was left in place as a rest car. What does this mean? On that day, the four tracks from track 7 to 10 in the inspection depot could not be used for inspection work. Even so, it may have been necessary to adjust the allocation of maintenance work so as not to interfere with commercial operations. In addition, SMT staff (called dressers) are professionals in cleaning work, but this was the first time they had to teach it to others. This, too, begs the question, “How do we teach them so they will understand?” This was also a problem that needed to be solved.
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