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Published: 2018-11-14 13:21:12 +0000 UTC; Views: 1265; Favourites: 86; Downloads: 0
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SL Yamaguchi, pulled by D51200, crosses the Tsuwano River shortly after departing Tsuwano Station in Tsuwano, Shimane Prefecture. D51200 is a D51-class 2-8-2 freight locomotive manufactured in 1938 and was restored to regular service in 2017. (I watched her get put through her paces at the Kyoto Train Museum in June 2017.) 1,151 engines were built between 1936-1945 making the D51 or "Degoichi" ("D-5-1" in Japanese) Japan's most mass-produced steam engine. My trip on SL Yamaguchi will be the subject of a future story on Wayfarer Daves Travel & History Blog.
Tsuwano, Shimane Prefecture
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They overhauled a member of Hiro (from Thomas & Friends)'s class and restored it to full working order? I find it surreal that this was taken on a non-heritage railway in 2018. Also, I didn't realize it was the most mass produced Japanese steam loco.
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Japan has about a dozen of these steam locomotives (SL for short) running in any given year. SL Yamaguchi is categorized as a 'rapid service' train from Shin-Yamaguchi Station to Tsuwano Station with few stops, none of which are for sightseeing and only two are long enough to briefly get off and take pictures of the smoking engine in different settings. The train runs only on weekends and holidays making one round trip each day from about April to November. They have two or three rotating engines and when booking you can see what engine is pulling the train so that you can book trips to ride with different engines each time. The cost to ride an SL is the standard price of a trip plus the expense of a reserved seat, just like booking a reserved seat on any normal train so it costs no extra money to book. What's interesting is that in its previous life this D51 was a freight engine and likely never pulled passenger cars, but the other primary engine is C571 (the very first C57-class steam engine) was built for passenger service.
Speaking of Thomas, SL Oigawa in Shizuoka Prefecture actually has a Thomas and a Hiro and they run a few times a year pulling the train! SL Oigawa is very different because it runs steam engines daily, year round, using its six different engines pulling cars built in the 1930s and 1940s.
Check back later, I'll have more pictures of this train up.
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That's a good photo.
I've ridden behind many steam engines here in the US, it makes for a fun trip.
However it also makes me cringe when I think of all theΒ air pollution they put out.
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Well, a diesel engine produces monoxide, carbon dioxide, sulfur dioxide, nitrogen oxides, hydrocarbons and PAH.
Steam engines just produces soot (whitch is coal) and steam.
So tell me which one is less pollutant
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And also sparks in case of bad coal/whatever other fuel ( : Oh dear). Fires can be much worse than air pollution.
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