The Class C62 (C62形) is a type of 4-6-4 steam locomotive designed by Hideo Shima and built by the Japanese National Railways (JNR). The "C" classification indicates three sets of driving wheels. The C62 was rebuilt with the boilers of older Class D52 2-8-2 locomotives.

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The Class C62 was a type of 4-6-4 steam locomotive designed by Hideo Shima and built by the Japanese National Railways (JNR). These were the largest and fastest steam passenger locomotives to run in Japan, and hauled the Tsubame (Swallow) express on the Tōkaidō Main Line between Tokyo and Osaka. Forty-nine C62s were built from 1948 to 1949 ...

This is a list of preserved Japanese steam locomotives in working condition. The list includes mainline-operational locomotives, those operated on short dedicated tracks within museum premises, and locomotives awaiting overhaul to return to mainline service.

2010年11月13日 · The C62 became Japan’s most internationally famous for its Hudson design, but with a few original design techniques, as well as its amalgam of Dutch, British, American and Japanese sensibilities. Today, one C62 remains in operation in short runs in a part.

The C62_17 had the highest speed recorded at 129 Km/hr on the Kiso bridge on the Tokaido line on the 15th of December 1954, during a capability test. This was the highest speed recorded in Japanese steam engine history.

The JNR Class C62 is a 4-6-4 Hudson-type steam locomotive built for the JNR from 1948 to 1949. The C62s were used mainly as passenger locomotives and were the largest, fastest and most powerful...

2013年8月16日 · The C62 is the biggest and fastest passenger steam locomotive Japan has ever built for its Cape gage railroad network (we shall revise that Cape gage is 3 ft. 6 in., considerably narrower than the standard gage of 4 ft. 8.5 in.).

C62 is the biggest and the most powerful steam locomotive in Japan. This "C62 2" is often called "Swallow Angel" because of the swallow emblems on both sides of the deflectors. First producted in the late forties and the C62 had been running for more than twenty years.

The class 9600 of the Japanese Government Railways consisted of 770 Consolidations for freight service built by several builders between 1913 and 1925. They were the first steam locomotives which were mass-produced in Japan.