HIGASHI-MATSUSHIMA, Miyagi Prefecture--Nearly nine months after being stranded on the rail in Higashi-Matsushima on the JR Senseki Line that connects Sendai and Ishinomaki stations, train cars were finally removed one by one on Dec. 8.
HIGASHI-MATSUSHIMA, Miyagi Prefecture--Nearly nine months after being stranded on the rail in Higashi-Matsushima on the JR Senseki Line that connects Sendai and Ishinomaki stations, train cars were finally removed one by one on Dec. 8.The cars were the last to be recovered from the March 11 Great East Japan Earthquake and tsunami, which heavily damaged the rail track, according to East Japan Railway Co.'s Sendai branch office. Each car of the four-car train was hauled out by crane from the rail track near the line's Nobiru Station in Miyagi Prefecture.