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JNR Class C57
🇯🇵 Japan ·built by Kawasaki Railcar Manufacturing· from 1937· class of 201 Japanese 4-6-2 locomotives
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10 photos from Wikimedia Commons · credits & licences
- 1. JNR C57 180 20070818: ja:User:TC411-507 aka JobanLineE531· CC BY-SA 3.0
- 2. JNR C57 180 20111217 001: Memorin（上総っぽ◆C57/N774P.）· CC BY 2.1 jp
- 3. C57 128 Otsu 20131028: DAJF· CC BY-SA 3.0
- 4. C57 135 in the Railway Museum (Japan): Saigen Jiro· CC0
- 5. JNR C57 201: 100yen 10:34, 6 October 2007 (UTC)· CC BY-SA 3.0
- 6. JR west SL Yamaguchi C57 1 shimyamaguchi: spaceaero2· CC BY-SA 3.0
- 7. Japanese-national-railways-C57-186-20111103: LERK· CC BY 3.0
- 8. Japanese-national-railways-C57-26-20110729: LERK· CC BY 3.0
- 9. C57 134: 鈴木信雄· CC BY 4.0
- 10. C57 161: 長谷川興政· CC BY 4.0
what is it?
The Class C57 (C57形) is a type of 4-6-2 steam locomotive built in Japan from 1937 to 1947. A total of 201 Class C57 locomotives were built and designed by Hideo Shima. Another 14 members of the class were built for export to Taiwan in 1942 and 1953.
base stats
Bars compare against all trains: 600 km/h (maglev), 1,700 seats; power, weight and number built on a log scale up to 20 MW, 1,000 t and 20,000 built.
fun facts
- First built 89 years ago, in 1937.
- Weighs about as much as 11 African elephants (~6 t each).
- 20.3 m long: about 5 cars parked nose to tail.
steam locomotive: Burns coal, wood or oil to boil water; the steam drives pistons that turn the wheels.
spec sheet
- built
- 1937–1953
- retired
- 1983
- status
- in service
- number built
- —
- kind
- Steam
- traction
- steam
- origin
- 🇯🇵 Japan
- builders
- Kawasaki Railcar Manufacturing, Kisha Seizo, Mitsubishi Heavy Industries, Hitachi
- top speed
- 100 km/h
- power
- —
- gauge
- 1,067 mm Cape gauge
- wheel arrangement
- 4-6-2 Pacific
- length
- 20.3 m
- weight
- 67.5 t
- nicknames
- Shigonana, Kifujin
From the Wikipedia infobox and Wikidata. Blank means the sources don't say.
Sources: Wikidata Q6108591, Wikipedia: JNR Class C57 (CC BY-SA 4.0).Updated 2026-10-25.