8-car 500 series shinkansen trainset # V2 of JR West as Kodama 732 from Hakata to Okayama (442 km) stopping in Shin-Yamaguchi. On the two middle tracks the trains are racing through with 300 km/h.

8-car shinkansen 500 series trainset V2 is leaving Aioi (Hyogo) with Kodama 753 to Okayama and Hakata in the evening sun.

The driver carefully adjusting the controls in the cab of V2. From LtoR: Gear, Brake, Throttle, Direction.

V2 stabled outside the DonRiver Railway's old workshop. The latest steam engine to be restored to working order (almost!), a Fowler tank-engine can be seen waiting in the shed.