JR West has officially announced its replacement of the JNR Era 381 Series Tilting EMU for its Ltd. Express Yakumo service between Okayama and Izumoshi. The 273 Series EMU will feature a new "onboard controlled passive tilt" system developed by Railway Technical Research Institute and Kawasaki using pre-existing route and curve data to control its tilting, and 11 4-car sets will be built (so -18 replacement cars compared to current fleet of 381 Series) by 2024. And starting from March 9th one of the 6-car 381 Series set will have its livery changed back to JNR limited express colors for two round trips per day.
https://www.westjr.co.jp/press/article/items/220216_03_yakumo.pdf>>1762755>Re-nationalize the section between Oshamanbe and HakodateSo how would that actually work? And I doubt they would abandon the section between Obihiro and Kushiro either
