【日帰り徳島県吉野川橋梁遠征 Day trip to the Yoshino River Bridge in Tokushima Prefecture】 26’6/13

土曜日の仕事後も穏やかな天気。予定のない週末でしたのでタイヤ交換したGSの試し走りも兼ねてどこかへ走ろうとなったが何処行くか。
突発的にJR四国のキハに会いたくなり天気が良ければ夕焼けきらりの吉野川橋梁と思い立ち16時前でしたが職場から徳島に向けてレッツラゴー。

The weather was calm even after work on Saturday. Since I had no plans for the weekend, I decided to go for a ride somewhere, partly to test out my newly fitted GS, but where to go?

Suddenly, I felt like seeing the JR Shikoku Kiha trains, and if the weather was good, I imagined the Yoshinogawa Bridge sparkling in the sunset. So, even though it was before 4 PM, I left work and headed towards Tokushima.

【惜別阪急6300系 Farewell to the Hankyu 6300 series】 26’6/7

Instagramで惜別6300系という投稿が最近よく流れてきます。
カメラを持ち始めた頃は阪急沿線に撮影によく出かけていましたが対象がJRや飛行機に移り撮影には行かなくなっていました。
それでも幼稚園、小中高、浪人と20年近く利用し続けた時には必ず6300系という「特別な車両」という想いの列車は当たり前のように走っていました。
その6300系がいよいよ嵐山線の運用からも離脱、廃車が進んでいるようです。ホームドア設置もあり一気に8300系への置き換えが進んでいるようでかつて京阪間の女王とも言われていた美しき2連窓のサイドビューとの別れは近いです。

I've been seeing a lot of posts on Instagram lately about the farewell to the 6300 series.

When I first started taking pictures, I often went out to photograph trains along the Hankyu line, but my focus shifted to JR trains and airplanes, and I stopped going out to photograph them.

Even so, during my nearly 20 years of using the line—kindergarten, elementary, middle, and high school, and even during my gap year—the 6300 series, a train I considered a "special vehicle," was always running as a matter of course.

Now, the 6300 series is finally being withdrawn from service on the Arashiyama line, and it seems that the decommissioning is progressing. With the installation of platform doors, the replacement with the 8300 series is accelerating, and the beautiful side view of the double-windowed train, once called the queen of the Kyoto-Osaka line, is nearing its end.

2007年10月28日　京都本線大山崎駅