#1301
JGR Class 3380
🇯🇵 Japan ·built by San'yō Railway· from 1906· class of 4 Japanese compound 2-6-2T locomotives
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- 1. JGR-3380SL: 日本国有鉄道工作局/Kone· Public domain
what is it?
The JGR Class 3380 consisted of four Vauclain compound 2-6-2T wheel arrangement steam locomotives of the Japanese Government Railways. They were built by the San'yō Railway as numbers 125-128 and inherited by the JGR under nationalization in 1907. They continued to serve on the San'yō Main Line until 1919, when they were sent to Hokkaido.
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 120 years ago, in 1906.
- Weighs about as much as 7 African elephants (~6 t each).
- 10.9 m long: about 2 cars parked nose to tail.
- Served for 19 years (1906–1925).
steam locomotive: Burns coal, wood or oil to boil water; the steam drives pistons that turn the wheels.
spec sheet
- built
- 1906
- in service from
- 1906
- retired
- 1925
- status
- retired
- number built
- 4
- kind
- Steam
- traction
- steam
- origin
- 🇯🇵 Japan
- builders
- San'yō Railway
- operators
- Ministry of Railways, San'yō Railway
- top speed
- —
- power
- —
- gauge
- 1,067 mm Cape gauge
- wheel arrangement
- 2-6-2
- length
- 10.9 m
- weight
- 39.4 t
From the Wikipedia infobox and Wikidata. Blank means the sources don't say.
Sources: Wikidata Q11421602, Wikipedia: JGR Class 3380 (CC BY-SA 4.0).Updated 2026-10-25.