Japan Freight Railway Company

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Japan Freight Railway Company (日本貨物鉄道株式会社, Nippon Kamotsu Tetsudō Kabushiki-gaisha^?), or JR Freight (JR貨物, Jeiāru Kamotsu^?), is one of the constituent companies of Japan Railway (JR). It provides transportation of cargo nationwide.

Formerly part of Japanese National Railways (JNR), it became a separate company when JNR was privatized and split on April 1, 1987. Although it has only about fifty kilometers of track of its own, it also operates on track owned by the JR passenger railways and other companies. The company uses the initials 'JRF' as an abbreviated name for identification.

JR Freight owns a variety of rolling stock, including

• DC Locomotives
• AC Locomotives
• AC/DC Locomotives
• Covered and uncovered cars with capacities up to 36 tons
• Carriers for automobiles, trucks and containers
• Large cars with capacities up to 80 tons
• Coal and hopper cars

[edit] External links

Wikimedia Commons has media related to: JR Freight

• http://www.jrfreight.co.jp/ (Japanese)
• http://www.jrfreight.co.jp/english/ (English)

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