It Is Pretty Much A Given,

if you want fast high speed reliable trains,

 go to Japan, and here are just three of the reasons the service is in such tip-top condition, unseen by many commuters and travellers, these three keep order at night, when the rail system sleeps,

 the “Electric Inspection Carriage” has a pantograph mounted on the roof just like other trains, but this one inspects the height, voltage and conditions of overhead electric lines,

 trains cause abrasions to the rail that result in increased noise and vibrations. The “Rail Grinding Carriage” detects and smooths out these abrasions at the micrometer level,

the “Electric Locomotive E5000 Model” tows different train lines into the inspection unit for maintenance, because certain train lines operate differently, they’re unable to drive themselves into the inspection unit, if you are a modeller these illustrations might seem familiar, it is because in a series of stunningly realistic illustrations, 74-year old artist Masami Onishi has recreated these trains in accurate detail and is used by Japanese toy maker Tamiya’s on their vintage toy boxes, at the age of 21, Onishi began working for Japanese toy-maker Tamiya and became the company’s first in-house illustrator, for over 10 years he was responsible for creating all the illustrations of the toys on their boxes before becoming a freelance artist in 1978, the illustrations of trains seen here are part of Project Toei, an initiative from the The Tokyo Metropolitan Bureau of Transportation to highlight various aspects of the city’s incredible infrastructure, 

and for a closer zoom in look at his art, the video above does just that, what attention to detail.