Taken from twitter. We welcome the allergy season and the 103 still refuses to die
>>1063971Ease of maintenance and lowering of cost. All the parts are treated like LEGO. I mean, if you were really inclined like with Shinkansen trains you could streamline the parts but there's no incentive to do so. Japanese trains are run pretty hard, even the way they drive them. Not many places outside Japan will teach you to slam it into notch 4 or 5 (or 12+ for Shinkansen) from a stop as standard practice
>>1064056You have to admit it's quite nightmarish though. Keio and the subsequent Toei Shinjuku being compatible with neither standard nor narrow gauge is so much why the only reason they haven't fixed it is probably because they haven't been able to round up enough engineers to do the whole thing in 4 hours
And the frequency barrier will forever screw the market for industrial equipment
