14-200 Series Moonlight Kyushu 8-Car Set
The 14-200 series is a modified version of the 14 series passenger car developed by JR West for fluctuating demand. Modifications included seating changes, the addition of large luggage racks, and a repaint.
The Moonlight Kyushu was an overnight express train operating between Kyoto (later Shin-Osaka) and Hakata, primarily during spring, summer, and the New Year's holiday period.
Mainly using 14-200 series cars from the Kyoto General Depot, it operated as a 6-car train with an observation car on the Kyoto end.
From the summer of 2005, the train was changed to an 8-car formation, but from the winter of 2006, it became an 8-car formation without the observation car, and service ended in the winter of 2009.
● Reproduces the 14 Series 200 series that operated on the Moonlight Kyushu.
● Reproduces the Moonlight Kyushu in its later years of service, which consisted of an 8-car formation without an observation car.
● The Suhafu 14-200 type (later modified car) reproduces car number 203 with gray gangway frame and gangway plate.
● The Suhafu 14-200 type (later modified car) is equipped with TN couplers.
● Replacement TN couplers are included for the Suhafu 14-200 type (early modified car).
● Four of the Oha 14-200 (250) cars are newly manufactured to reproduce the modified cars from the early Oha 14 type without plug receptacles and gangway doors.
● H-rubber is reproduced in black.
● Train mark is pre-printed with "Moonlight Kyushu".
● Car number is selectable and transfer sheet is included.
● Tail lights and train mark are equipped with a constant lighting circuit board and an ON-OFF switch.
● New current collection system and black wheels are used.