SoraNews24 —Japan News—

Bringing you yesterday's news from Japan and Asia, today.

RocketNews24 Japanese

Featured

Long train is looooooooooong: US military freight train is wowing Japanese commenters 【Video】

無題

♪This is the train that doesn’t end, yes it goes on and on and on and on…

It sucks to get stuck at a railroad crossing just as those red lights start flashing and the crossing gate lowers for a train to go by. If you’re in Japan, the majority of the time it’s for a passenger train, which usually passes by quickly.

Unluckily for Twitterer @_GHOST_CHASER, on June 27, he wasn’t in Japan when he stopped at a crossing for a freight train. And not just any freight train; this one was transporting military goods for the US military. Lots and lots and lots of goods.

@_GHOST_CHASER began recording just as the train started to pass, and then we see car after car go by, carrying what looks to be enough tanks to outfit an entire country.

アメリカ軍の輸送列車がクッソかっこいい。そしてクッソ長い pic.twitter.com/Ew93auBJRA

— 敗残兵 (@_GHOST_CHASER) June 27, 2016

Halfway through the video you’re likely already anticipating the end of the train, or at least I was. But it doesn’t end, it just keeps going and going. (Like that darned Energizer bunny…)

▼ At least it’s not carrying any tanks.

Image: Wikipedia

@_GHOST_CATCHER didn’t seem to mind though, writing when he posted the video: “The US military freight train is super cool. And super long.” Apparently quite a few Twitter users agreed with him, judging from the thousands of tweets and retweets he got. If you’re wondering how it would compare to a train in Tokyo, @_GHOST_CATCHER noted that since it looked to be about 2 kilometers long, it would have stretched from Akihabara to Tokyo station!

Long might be an understatement, but hopefully our Twitterer was’t late to wherever he was headed!

Update: We goofed and wrote in our title that this was record in Japan, which it obviously was not. We have updated the article to correct this. Thanks to the commenters who pointed out our mistake.

Source and top image: Twitter/@_GHOST_CHASER

Like this:

Like Loading…

Related Stories

Trackbacks

  1. There are no trackbacks yet.
  2. Trackback URL

Trending Today

  1. Liquid croissant coffee is coming to Japanese stores this month
  2. Beautiful Ghibli diorama kits lets you build anime characters’ homes inside yours [Photos]
  3. Continuing cyberattacks hit Japanese arcade hard [Photos]
  4. Pachinko parlor operator arrested for not obscuring the act of gambling well enough
  5. Starbucks Japan reveals this year’s lucky bag, but you’ll have to act fast to get one
  6. Japan ends tax-free shopping system for foreign tourists, new refund request system now in effect
  7. First-ever cafe on Tokyo Imperial Palace Garden grounds is now open
  8. Princess Mononoke was going to look totally different, new Studio Ghibli artbook shows
  9. Godzilla becomes a Japanese randoseru backpack, as do two of his greatest rivals [Photos]
  10. Japan’s free stock image site of muscular men doing whimsical and mundane things reveals rankings

© SoraNews24 —Japan News— / SOCIO CORPORATION

Powered by WordPress VIP

%d