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JNR Class D60
🇯🇵 Japan ·built by Unknown builder· class of 78 Japanese 2-8-4 locomotives rebuilt from D50 class 2-8-2s
10 photos from Wikimedia Commons · credits & licences
- 1. JNR SL D601: Muyo· CC BY-SA 3.0
- 2. 140720 Yamaguchi Museum Yamaguchi Japan02s3: 663highland· CC BY 2.5
- 3. D60 1 in Yamaguchi museum: Saigen Jiro· CC0
- 4. JNR Class D60-1 and Yamaguchi Prefecture Kasugayama Hall: そらみみ· CC BY-SA 4.0
- 5. JNR Class D60-1 in front of Yamaguchi Prefectural Yamaguchi Museum 2: そらみみ· CC BY-SA 4.0
- 6. JNR Class D60-1 in front of Yamaguchi Prefectural Yamaguchi Museum: そらみみ· CC BY-SA 4.0
- 7. JNR D60a: Muyo· CC BY-SA 3.0
- 8. JNR D60b: Muyo· CC BY-SA 3.0
- 9. JNR D6061: Muyo· CC BY-SA 3.0
- 10. JNR SL D6061 20220808: Muyo· CC BY-SA 4.0
what is it?
The Class D60 (D60形) is a Japanese 2-8-4 Berkshire wheel arrangement steam locomotive type created by rebuilding an earlier class to suit postwar requirements. 78 of the 380 successful, powerful prewar Class D50 2-8-2 Mikado locomotives were rebuilt and redesigned as D60s between 1951 and 1956 by Hideo Shima at the JNR Hamamatsu (Nagoya) Region, Nagano, (Nagoya) Region, and Tsuchizaki, (Sendai) Region workshops. As with the rebuilding of Class D51 to Class D61 and Class D52 to Class D62 locomotives, an additional trailing axle was included to reduce the heavy axle load of the D50 and allow more widespread use.
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
- Weighs about as much as 14 African elephants (~6 t each).
- 20 m long: about 4 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
- —
- retired
- 1974
- status
- preserved
- number built
- —
- kind
- Steam
- traction
- steam
- origin
- 🇯🇵 Japan
- builders
- Unknown builder
- designer
- Hideo Shima
- operators
- Japanese National Railways
- top speed
- —
- power
- —
- gauge
- 1,067 mm Cape gauge
- wheel arrangement
- 2-8-4
- length
- 20 m
- weight
- 81.6 t
From the Wikipedia infobox and Wikidata. Blank means the sources don't say.
Sources: Wikidata Q11421747, Wikipedia: JNR Class D60 (CC BY-SA 4.0).Updated 2026-10-25.