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The story
On the morning of September 14, a combine harvester that had gotten stuck at an Odakyu Line railroad crossing in Odawara City, Kanagawa Prefecture, collided with an Odakyu Romancecar train. None of the roughly 150 passengers and crew aboard the train were injured, nor was the man in his 70s who had been driving the combine. On 5ch’s News Speed+ board, the thread lit up with a wide range of topics — jokes about giant-robot “combining” sequences sparked by the word “combine,” technical points about the structure and ground pressure of farm machinery, and trivia about the Odakyu Romancecar’s front observation seats.
Sept 14 (Mon), 11:43 AM
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This morning, a combine harvester got stuck at an Odakyu Line railroad crossing in Odawara City, Kanagawa Prefecture, and collided with a train. No injuries were reported.
Source: news.yahoo.co.jp / Original article here
What people said
❌ 'Let's' Combine
⭕ 'Retsutsu' Combine (a stuttery in-joke mispronunciation)
It's Odawara
Yeah, it's the boonies
Our house is a farmhouse~♪ (parody mashing up a tokusatsu hero name with a jingle-style lyric)
Go on, simmer it down
All the produce in the fields and paddies (parody of the Cutie Honey theme lyric 'simmer down the flames of love')
The machine that harvests and threshes rice in the paddy
(does both jobs — hence 'combine')
Technically it's a 'harvester,' but us dumb Japanese folk (lit. 'ponji,' self-deprecating slang) just borrowed the 'combine' from 'combine harvester,' and it stuck
That's you, buddy
Just realized the difference between a tractor and a combine
Thanks
'Tornado'
'Yo-yo'
'Our, our…' (all cues that'd send this thread straight into Combattler V references)
Super Electromagnetic Spin
Yep, banned-word filter bypassed (a Combattler V attack name)
V! V! V! Victory! (the Combattler V catchphrase)
All I know is it was a filming location for Ikimonogakari's song 'SAKURA'
Wait, rapid express trains stop there now?
In this case,
which one gets reincarnated into another world — the combine?
Or the Odakyu Romancecar? (riffing on 'isekai' anime tropes)
THIS is what a combine looks like?!
Amazing the old guy driving it came out okay…
They're actually pretty expensive, you know
4! 5! Deploy!
This was literally all I could come up with
4, 5, and off to the fields we go♪
four-five, DEEEPLOY!
Shaking the very earth, the suuuper electromaaagnetic robooot♪ (parody of the Combattler V theme song)
Didn't it just get run over, bend out of shape, and get itself stuck?
It's got to be lighter than the train, at least,
and it's not exactly fast either
Combines run on rubber tracks, so their ground pressure is so low they can cross mud deep enough to swallow rubber boots without sinking
But in exchange they're built flimsy — on paved roads they can only manage 2-3 km/h, any faster and they shake so violently they look ready to fall apart
Is it really all that great?
It's handy for sneaking off on an affair trip
#118
Isn't that pretty much true of all private railways?
Plenty of 'express' trains that turn into local stops after Tanashi, or after Kawagoe-shi, and so on
It's the EXE model, so that's the driver's cab up front, not a passenger seat
Background and Key Points of the Discussion
“Combine” (kombain) is Japanese shorthand for a combine harvester — a machine that both cuts and threshes rice in one pass. As posters in the thread explained, because it runs on rubber tracks its ground pressure is so low it can barely sink even into deep mud, but that same design makes it structurally delicate, capping it at just 2-3 km/h on paved roads. Farm machinery getting stuck at railroad crossings is a recurring story during harvest season, but this time it was fortunate that no one — on the train or driving the combine — was hurt. The thread also touched on the Odakyu Romancecar: while some Romancecar models do have a front observation seat, posters corrected the record to note that the EXE model believed to be involved here has a driver’s cab at the front instead — worth knowing, since many people assume “Romancecar” automatically means a front-view seat.
*This article is excerpted and summarized from the 5ch (News Speed+) thread “[Kanagawa] “Odakyu Romancecar” collides with combine harvester — no injuries among roughly 150 train passengers and crew, no injuries to the man in his 70s driving the combine — Odawara.”
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