East Japan Railway Company (東日本旅客鉄道 Higashi-Nihon Ryokyaku Tetsudo or JR東日本; JR Higashi-Nihon) is a Japanese private railroad company, one of the seven JR companies.
Planning for the PATway East, as it was known until December 1, 1977, began almost as soon as the ink dried on the Port Authority purchase of the Pittsburgh Railway Company in 1964.
Edward M. Butko, Jr., an Allegheny County Sheriff's Deputy, was killed when he crossed the center line on a curve on the busway underneath the Bloomfield Bridge and crashed head-on into a bus.
Jonathan Hill, resident of East Hutchinson Street and who would be living a block from the busway, mentioned that while 48 trains pass on a daily basis, 634 buses would pass in the same time frame.
EastJapan Railway Co (JREast) is developing a new diesel-electric series hybrid railcar that it will introduce into operations next summer.
In calculating the battery requirements, the JREast engineers factored in capacity for storing regenerative braking energy (the average braking energy used for making a single stop is approximately 1 kWh) and the electric energy necessary to run a railcar for 5 km between stations (approximately 3 kWh).
JREast will start to operate the hybrid train on the Koumi Line between Obuchizawa Station in the town of Obuchizawa, Yamanashi Prefecture and Komoro Station in the city of Komoro, Nagano Prefecture.