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Description Business end of a class C62 4-6-4 express steam locomotive built by Japanese National Railways (JNR) in Japan. The C classification indicates three sets of driving wheels. The C62 was built with a 4-6-4 frame, upon which was mounted the boiler of the JNR Class D52 2-8-2 locomotive. 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. Only South Africa operated more powerful Cape gauge locomotives. Forty-nine C62s were built from 1948 to 1949. A class C62 locomotive, C62 17, broke the speed record for a narrow-gauge steam locomotive on 15 December 1954 when it reached 129 km/h (80 mph) on the Tōkaidō Main Line. This locomotive was initially preserved in a park in Nagoya and later moved to the SCMaglev and Railway Park in Nagoya. This particular locomotive is preserved in the Kyoto Railway Museum in Kyoto, Japan. (Kyoto, Japan, Apr/ May 2019)
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Author shankar s. from Poona (pune), India, India

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