#2697
JNR Class C60
🇯🇵 Japan ·built by Unknown builder· from 1941· class of Japanese 4-6-4 locomotives
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7 photos from Wikimedia Commons · credits & licences
- 1. C60 1 Sendai 20050105: Robertbaum· CC BY-SA 3.0
- 2. 2019 Sendai (49139747643): xiquinhosilva from Cacau· CC BY 2.0
- 3. C60 1 Sendai 20180324: 藤谷良秀(Yoshihide Fujitani)· CC BY-SA 4.0
- 4. C60 1 steam locomotive at Nishi Park, Sendai 2008-10-14: くーさん· CC BY 2.0
- 5. C60 1 steam locomotive at Nishi Park, Sendai 2012-06-24: Nobuyuki Kondo· CC BY 2.0
- 6. C60-1 1: Mkb· CC BY 3.0
- 7. C60-1 2: Mkb· CC BY 3.0
what is it?
The Class C60 (C60形) is a 4-6-4 wheel arrangement steam locomotive type born from the rebuilding of 47 out of 173 surplus Class C59 4-6-2 Pacific locomotives. Hideo Shima redesigned 47 C59s between 1953 and 1961 at the JNR Hamamatsu and Kōriyama factories. 39 locos were rebuilt from pre-war C59s, while 8 were rebuilt from post-war variants and renumbered to C60 101 to 108.
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 85 years ago, in 1941.
- Weighs about as much as 14 African elephants (~6 t each).
- 21.4 m long: about 5 cars parked nose to tail.
- Served for 18 years (1953–1971).
steam locomotive: Burns coal, wood or oil to boil water; the steam drives pistons that turn the wheels.
spec sheet
- built
- 1941–1947
- in service from
- 1953
- retired
- 1971
- status
- preserved
- number built
- 47
- kind
- Steam
- traction
- steam
- origin
- 🇯🇵 Japan
- builders
- Unknown builder
- operators
- Japanese National Railways
- top speed
- —
- power
- —
- gauge
- 1,067 mm Cape gauge
- wheel arrangement
- 4-6-4
- length
- 21.4 m
- weight
- 82.9 t
From the Wikipedia infobox and Wikidata. Blank means the sources don't say.
Sources: Wikidata Q1522288, Wikipedia: JNR Class C60 (CC BY-SA 4.0).Updated 2026-10-25.