It is pretty sad, seeing it surrounded by snow drifts.

They rest in d tilted position?

It's JR Hokkaido, the tilting mechanism probably locked up and they just left it there to die. Or rather, because it's disconnected from air, it leans over like that(?).

The 285 is a really sad story though. They just ran out of money and gave up, pitching all their hopes on the Shinkansen.

>>132349 -- It certainly looks like they develop list when the tilting jacks lose pressure.

>>132351
What's the story behind it? Why did they attempt to develop their own train rather than buying an off-the-shelf design?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/KiHa_285_series

https://translate.googleusercontent.com/translate_c?depth=1&hl=en&ie=UTF8&rurl=translate.google.com&sl=ja&tl=en&u=https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/JR%25E5%258C%2597%25E6%25B5%25B7%25E9%2581%2593%25E3%2581%25AE%25E8%25BB%258A%25E4%25B8%25A1%25E5%25BD%25A2%25E5%25BC%258F&usg=ALkJrhiMRqH91TQog5DRf6i4p_NiCw6aYg

In short, Hokkaido's climate is too weird for COTS to do well.

>>132351
If JR Hokkaido is giving up on the KiHa 285, what is it going to use for future limited expresses? Supposedly the 261s are going into local service replacing DMUs?

I miss the Fastech.