non urban rail traffic

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steam engine
機関車 kikansha

D 252 312
steam engine - Meiji-mura / Inuymama


D 274 804
Bisai No. 1, built 1897 in the United States
open-air museum Meiji-mura
steam engine / traffic



D 274 803
Bisai Nr. 1 - first steam engine between Yatomi and Shin-Nichinomiya
steam engine / traffic

D 211 499
series C 62 / Typ 23
Ueno Station - Ueno / Tôkyô City
steam engine / traffic

J 252 310
steam engine No. 9 - Meiji-mura
steam engine / traffic
J 252 313
steam engine No. 9 - Meiji-mura  (2)
steam engine / traffic

J 252 314
steam engine No. 9 - Meiji-mura  (3)
steam engine / traffic
J 252 316
steam engine No. 9 - Meiji-mura  (4)
steam engine / traffic

J 252 312
steam engine No. 9 - Meiji-mura  (5)
steam engine / traffic
D 208 693
steam engine series C 11 No. 292 - Shinbashi / Tôkyô City
steam engine / traffic

D 281 074
B6 locomotive - 2412 model, manufactured 1904
in Hanover - Nagoya City Science Museum
steam engine / traffic

B6 was a designation used by the Railroad Work Bureau (an ancestor of the present JR), when it established a locomotive model type designation system in 1898. The D51 is well-known. The B6 steam locomotive was constructed based on a grand design developed in the U.K. Depending on manufacturing years and manufacturers, it has four variations called 2100, 2120, 2400 and 2500 models. This particular specimen exhibited here is numbered 2412, which was manufactured by the Hanover Corporation of Germany in 1904 and imported to Japan for the transportation of military supplies to fulfill logistical needs in the Russo-Japanese war. This steam locomotive became a part of the fleet operated by the Railroad Work Bureau in April 1905 and was used on the Chuo line in the Taisho era and on the Taketoyo line and Takayama line in the Showa era. It was discontinued in January 1948 in the Takayama Locomotive station and then sold to the Yokkaichi Factory of Ishihara Sangyo Kaisha, where it was used on the private line developed on the factory premises until July 1968 for the transportation of cargos and commuting employees.


J 235 201
series C 5 type 631 - Yasukuni-jinja shrine - Tôkyô City
steam engine / traffic
J 244 246
exhibit in Izumo-taisha shrine - Izumo City
steam engine / traffic

D 261 199
series C 59 type 161 (1946-71) - Hiroshima City
steam engine / traffic
D 261 200
series C 59 type 161 - Hiroshima  (2)
steam engine / traffic