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JNR Class C12
🇯🇵 Japan ·built by Nippon Sharyo· from 1932· class of 282+8+3 Japanese 2-6-2T locomotives
10 photos from Wikimedia Commons · credits & licences
- 1. C12 167: Rick330· CC BY-SA 3.0
- 2. JNR C12 66 20120319: ウツダー· CC BY 2.1 jp
- 3. C12 259-1: Nisanyongo· CC BY-SA 3.0
- 4. C12 280 in Komatsushima Station Park: Saigen Jiro· CC0
- 5. JNR-C12-231 in uchiko station square: Rsa· CC BY-SA 3.0
- 6. JNR-C12-241 in uchiko Takamori square: Rsa· CC BY-SA 3.0
- 7. JNR C12 6: 100yen· CC BY-SA 3.0
- 8. Japanese-national-railways-C12-164-20120403: LERK· CC BY-SA 3.0
- 9. C12 66: Unknown author Unknown author· CC BY 4.0
- 10. JNR C12 41: User:Sakurami1· CC BY-SA 3.0
what is it?
The Class C12 are a type of 2-6-2T "Prairie" type steam locomotives built by the Japanese Government Railways and the Japanese National Railways from 1932 to 1947. A total of 282 Class C12 locomotives were built and designed by Hideo Shima.
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 94 years ago, in 1932.
- 371 kW is about 4 family cars (~85 kW each) flat out.
- Weighs about as much as 8 African elephants (~6 t each).
- 11.4 m long: about 3 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
- 1932–1947
- retired
- 1989
- status
- retired
- number built
- 282
- kind
- Steam
- traction
- steam
- origin
- 🇯🇵 Japan
- builders
- Nippon Sharyo, Kawasaki Railcar Manufacturing, Kisha Seizo, Mitsubishi Heavy Industries, Hitachi
- operators
- Ministry of Railways, Japanese National Railways, North China Transportation Company, China State Railway Group, Taiwan Railways Administration, Vietnam Railways, Kereta Api Indonesia
- top speed
- —
- power
- 371 kW
- gauge
- 1,067 mm Cape gauge
- wheel arrangement
- 2-6-2
- length
- 11.4 m
- weight
- 50.1 t
From the Wikipedia infobox and Wikidata. Blank means the sources don't say.
Sources: Wikidata Q17361108, Wikipedia: JNR Class C12 (CC BY-SA 4.0).Updated 2026-10-25.