Bullet Trains / High Speed Trains / Shinkansen [019] Hikari Train, Japan (015)

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Title Bullet Trains / High Speed Trains / Shinkansen [019] Hikari Train, Japan (015)
Collection Name and Number P0479 Lennox and Catherine Tierney Photo Collection
Photo Number Box 28, Japan, Hikari Train, 12
Publisher Digitized by J. Willard Marriott Library, University of Utah
Date 1972
Subject High speed trains--Japan--Photographs; Passenger trains--Japan--Photographs; Railroads--Japan--Photographs; Dining cars--Japan--Photographs; Food--Japan--Photographs; Speedometers--Japan--Photographs; Japan; Tōkaidō Shinkansen; High speed trains
Keywords Trains; Hikari
Spatial Coverage Japan
Description Photo taken in the buffet car of a Hikari bullet train (with speed indicator visible) on the Tokaido Line, Japan
Caption on Slide Buffet car (speed indicator visible, km/h) Hikari train, Tokaido Line, Japan.
Additional Information Image was scanned from color slide. Note: Hikari ... is the name of a high-speed train service running on the Tōkaidō and Sanyō Shinkansen bullet train lines in Japan. Slower than the Nozomi but faster than the Kodama, the Hikari is the fastest train service on the Tōkaidō and Sanyō Shinkansen that is covered in the Japan Rail Pass.--Wikipedia.
Type Image
Creator Tierney, Lennox
Rights Management This material may be protected by copyright. Permission required for use in any form. For further information please contact the Multimedia Archivist, Special Collections, J. Willard Marriott Library, University of Utah.
ARK ark:/87278/s62v2z20
Digitization Specifications Original scanned on Nikon Coolscan 5000 and saved as 2700 ppi TIFF. Display image generated in CONTENTdm as JP2000.
Donor Lennox Tierney; Catherine Tierney
Setname uum_lctpc
ID 331532
Reference URL https://collections.lib.utah.edu/ark:/87278/s62v2z20
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