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(Note 1: The names Oiran and Little Green aren't their official names but given by me by imagining how they will be named in English if they're going to have ones. Although I can just write the Pinyin to show how their original Mandarin names are pronounced, I feel that the Pinyin names don't have a soul and are boring)
(Note 2: Of all 0 Series Shinkansens, only the one in Taiwan is named 花魁車/Oiran)

So, here are four humanized trains exist in my countries. From left to right:

0 Series Shinkansen "Oiran" - 0 Series Shinkansen is all bullet trains' ancestor. As one of the only two 0 Series Shinkansens outside Japan, Oiran has never been operated as a passenger train in Taiwan, but a "structure gauge test car". Her nickname 花魁車 or Oiran (Oiran Car, if translated directly) was given to her because the probes on her look like the accessories on an oiran's hair. Oiran was built in 1978 and came for the construction of Taiwan High Speed Rail in 2004. After that, she had nothing to do but waiting for people to build a stage of her in a park, which finally opened in December last year.

Taiwan High Speed Rail (THSR) 700T - THSR 700T is based on 700 Series Shinkansen but with a shorter nose, because the design of THSR railway allow the train to shorten the "nose" for larger capacity without gaining the air pressure issue taht happens on bullet trains as they're passing through a tunnel.

Kaohsiung Metro - A Siemens Modular Metro, built between 2005 to 2007, with the theme color of turquoise. (some people call it green?) (see more info on Wiki here )

Kaohsiung Circular Light Rail “Little Green” - There are two types of trains used on Kaohsiung Circular Light Rail ; the earier one is a Urbos 3 called 小綠綠 (unofficial translation: Little Green), which is the one in the picture here, and the other is an Alstom Citadis 305 called 小黑綠 (unofficial translation: Little Black Green). I like how people give them such cute names, while the light rail trains in New Taipei are named like warriors from kunfu stories. (see more info of Little Green on Wiki here but Mandarin only)

Relative art: Humanized Train Combo 2

Description
(Note 1: The names Oiran and Little Green aren't their official names but given by me by imagining how they will be named in English if they're going to have ones. Although I can just write the Pinyin to show how their original Mandarin names are pronounced, I feel that the Pinyin names don't have a soul and are boring)
(Note 2: Of all 0 Series Shinkansens, only the one in Taiwan is named 花魁車/Oiran)

So, here are four humanized trains exist in my countries. From left to right:

0 Series Shinkansen "Oiran" - 0 Series Shinkansen is all bullet trains' ancestor. As one of the only two 0 Series Shinkansens outside Japan, Oiran has never been operated as a passenger train in Taiwan, but a "structure gauge test car". Her nickname 花魁車 or Oiran (Oiran Car, if translated directly) was given to her because the probes on her look like the accessories on an oiran's hair. Oiran was built in 1978 and came for the construction of Taiwan High Speed Rail in 2004. After that, she had nothing to do but waiting for people to build a stage of her in a park, which finally opened in December last year.

Taiwan High Speed Rail (THSR) 700T - THSR 700T is based on 700 Series Shinkansen but with a shorter nose, because the design of THSR railway allow the train to shorten the "nose" for larger capacity without gaining the air pressure issue taht happens on bullet trains as they're passing through a tunnel.

Kaohsiung Metro - A Siemens Modular Metro, built between 2005 to 2007, with the theme color of turquoise. (some people call it green?) (see more info on Wiki here )

Kaohsiung Circular Light Rail “Little Green” - There are two types of trains used on Kaohsiung Circular Light Rail ; the earier one is a Urbos 3 called 小綠綠 (unofficial translation: Little Green), which is the one in the picture here, and the other is an Alstom Citadis 305 called 小黑綠 (unofficial translation: Little Black Green). I like how people give them such cute names, while the light rail trains in New Taipei are named like warriors from kunfu stories. (see more info of Little Green on Wiki here but Mandarin only)

Relative art: Humanized Train Combo 2