峠の釜めし&EF630形電気機関車 信越本線横川駅 1997年9月18日
JR信越本線の横川駅は標高960mの碓氷峠を越えるために、力の強い電気機関車(EF630形電気機関車)を連結する為の駅。
そして、この横川駅では、もう一つの楽しみがあった。この連結に要する停車時間を利用して販売する、名物駅弁「峠の釜めし」と「力餅」、特に「釜めし」は、列車の停車と同時に買い求めるお客さんで賑わう。
明治時代からの碓氷峠越えの歴史もそして電気機関車を連結する作業もその間を利用した駅弁「峠の釜めし」販売も姿を消してしまう。そう、ローカルな終着駅を利用するのは地元の人だけになってしまうからだ。
速さと便利さを引換に峠越えの技術と歴史、そして車窓からの風景、さらに駅弁売りの風景をも奪ってしまう。
私は、横川駅に一日中いて「峠の釜めし」を食べ、二度と見ることの出来ない、最後の駅弁売りとシェルパEF630形電気機関車の連結の模様をカメラに収めた。(記;1997年9月30日)
"The pot meal of the mountain
pass"& "EF630 form electric locomotive"
Shinetsu main line Yokokawa Station September 18, 1997
I work on I connect a strong EF630 form
electric locomotive of the power to go over the Usui mountain pass of meters
above the sea level 960m at Yokokawa Station of the JR Shinetsu main line.
As for the electric locomotive called
"the Sherpa of the mountain pass" to connect at Yokokawa Station,
ED42 form of the Abt type rack rail carried out the duty before, but EF630 form
plays an active part and can watch the design of the connection now.
During stoppage time to need it for the
connection of the electric locomotive, a noted product station lunch sells
"the pot meal of the mountain pass" and "energy supplying
mochi". The home is considerably full of visitors buying "the pot
meal of the mountain pass" with the stop of the train.
However, if the New Nagano Line starts on
October 1, 1997, I take you, and, in Yokokawa Station - Karuizawa station
interval, it is it with an abolished line, and, in Yokokawa station, it is it
in the terminal of the local line.
As for the work and the sale of the station
lunch "pot meal of the mountain pass" which took advantage of the
meantime to connect the history of the Usui mountain pass from the Meiji era,
an electric locomotive disappear.
Is it the New Nagano Line for the Nagano
Olympics?
I take scenery of station lunch selling to
technology more than peaks and history and scenery from the car window, Sara
for exchange in the speed and convenience.
I put the design that the EF630 form
electric locomotive called a state and a Sherpa of last station lunch selling
that I stayed in Yokokawa Station all day and ate "the pot meal of the
mountain pass" and could never watch connected in the camera.
JR横川駅 アブト式の模型
シェルパEF630形電気機関車
特急あさま↓
列車が到着するまでの準備が忙しい
到着する特急あさまを出迎える
乗客はシェルパを連結する間の時間に買いに来る
頭を下げて、特急あさまを見送る