D51 steam locomotive

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D51s haul a mixed train on the Hisatsu Line, March 1970
D51s haul a mixed train on the Hisatsu Line, March 1970
This D51 stands outside the National Science Museum in Tokyo.
This D51 stands outside the National Science Museum in Tokyo.

D51 is a type of 2-8-2 steam locomotive built by the Japanese Government Railways, the Japanese National Railways and various manufacturers from 1936 to 1951. The name consists of a "D" for the four sets of driving wheels and the class number 51 for tender locomotives that the numbers 50 through 99 were assigned to under the 1928 locomotive classification rule.

The design of D51 was based on D50 which was launched in 1923. A total of 1,115 D51 locomotives were built. Early D51s built were known as "Namekuji type" (or "slug").

The D51s that were left on Sakhalin (formerly Karafuto) by the retreating Japanese at the end of World War II were used until 1979 by Russian Railways. One was left outside Yuzhno-Sakhalinsk railway station, and one is in running condition and is kept at the Yuzhno-Sakhalinsk railway station. Additionally two wrecks were left to the north of the city.[1]

This D51 stands outside the Yuzhno-Sakhalinsk Railway Station Sakhalin Island, Russia.
This D51 stands outside the Yuzhno-Sakhalinsk Railway Station Sakhalin Island, Russia.

[edit] References

  1. ^ Steam and the Railways of Sakhalin Island - at International Steam Locomotives


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