Kato 10-898 JNR Postal luggage train Tohoku specification 6Cars Set - N Scale
 
6Cars Set

During the Showa era, when railways accounted for a large portion of the transportation of parcels, mail cars and luggage cars connected to passenger trains were responsible for this. As the amount of transportation increased, trains exclusively for freight began to be operated, and express freight trains were also operated on main routes.
On the Tohoku Main Line, mail and baggage trains headed north departed from Sumidagawa Freight Station, which was exclusively for freight in the Tokyo metropolitan area, and connected to other parts of the Tohoku region. There is also an operation called ``shipping'' in which the Seikan ferry crosses the Tsugaru Strait from Aomori to Hokkaido. ・The luggage car was active.