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JNR Class EF62
🇯🇵 Japan ·built by Kawasaki Railcar Manufacturing· from 1962· Japanese electric locomotive type
10 photos from Wikimedia Commons · credits & licences
- 1. EF62 usui: toshinori baba· Public domain
- 2. EF6224 SanyoLine IbogawaBr 19861028: Olegushka· CC BY-SA 4.0
- 3. EF62-1: Rsa· CC BY-SA 3.0
- 4. EF62-54: Rsa· CC BY-SA 3.0
- 5. JNR-EL-EF62-3-830805: Wxrx· CC BY-SA 3.0
- 6. JNR EF62 11 606 echizen: spaceaero2· CC BY-SA 3.0
- 7. JNR Type EF62 No.13 Himeji Station 1986: HATARA KEI· CC BY 3.0
- 8. EF62 19 passing Ofuna station: Hahifuheho· CC0
- 9. EF62 20 passing Ofuna station: Hahifuheho· CC0
- 10. JNR ef62 21 nimotsuressya niwase: spaceaero2· CC BY 3.0
what is it?
The Class EF62 (EF62形) is a Co′Co′ wheel arrangement DC electric locomotive type built between 1962 and 1969 for use hauling passenger and freight on the Shinetsu Main Line and particularly over the extreme 66.7‰, (6.67%), gradient of the Usui Pass between Yokokawa and Karuizawa. The prototype, EF62 1, was built by Kawasaki Sharyō in 1962, with the full-production locomotives built by Kawasaki, Tōshiba, and Tōyō & Kisha delivered from 1963 onward.
who runs it
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 64 years ago, in 1962.
- 2.6 MW is about 30 family cars (~85 kW each) flat out.
- Weighs about as much as 16 African elephants (~6 t each).
- 18 m long: about 4 cars parked nose to tail.
electric locomotive: Draws power from overhead wires or a third rail and pulls separate carriages.
spec sheet
- built
- 1962–1969
- status
- retired
- number built
- 54
- kind
- Electric
- traction
- electric
- origin
- 🇯🇵 Japan
- builders
- Kawasaki Railcar Manufacturing, Toshiba, Kisha Seizo, Fuji Electric
- operators
- Japanese National Railways, East Japan Railway Company
- top speed
- 100 km/h
- power
- 2.6 MW
- gauge
- 1,067 mm Cape gauge
- electric system
- 1,500 V DC overhead line
- wheel arrangement
- Co′Co′
- length
- 18 m
- weight
- 96 t
From the Wikipedia infobox and Wikidata. Blank means the sources don't say.
Sources: Wikidata Q11421835, Wikipedia: JNR Class EF62 (CC BY-SA 4.0).Updated 2026-10-25.