The Class D51 ( D51形 ) is a type of 2-8-2 steam locomotive built by the Japanese Government Railways (JGR), the Japanese National Railways (JNR), and Kawasaki Heavy Industries Rolling Stock Company , Kisha Seizo , Hitachi , Nippon Sharyo , Mitsubishi , and Mitsubishi Heavy Industries from 1936 to 1945 and 1950 to 1951. 174 units are in preservation in Japan, including five operational examples. A further 13 are preserved in Russia and Taiwan, bringing the total number of preserved units to 187.
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20-468: A "D" for the four sets of driving wheels and the class number 51 for tender locomotives that the numbers 50 through 99 were assigned to under the 1928 locomotive classification rule . Over 173 Class D51 locomotives are preserved in Japan. D51 498 was restored by JR East and pulls special-event trains on JR East lines. The following is a list of preserved locomotives as of July 2023. Built in 1938 at
30-589: A short service life in the Philippines as Manila Railroad ordered the dieselization of its entire network, having all steam locomotives retired by 1956. From 1936 to 1944, Kawasaki, Kisha Seizō and Hitachi had built 32 D51s for Imperial Taiwan Railway. After World War II , they were taken over by Taiwan Railways Administration , and were classified DT650 . In 1951, Kisha Seizō built three DT650s and Mitsubishi Heavy Industries built two DT650s for Taiwan Railways Administration. The classification consists of
40-521: Is different from Wikidata All article disambiguation pages All disambiguation pages JNR Class D51 The design of class D51 was based on the earlier D50 , introduced in 1923. Wartime production featured some substitution of wood for steel parts like running boards, smoke deflectors and tender coal bunkers. A total of 1,115 D51s were built, the largest number in any single class of locomotive in Japan. Early D51s were nicknamed Namekuji-gata (" slug -form") for their shape. The locomotive
50-545: The JNR Hamamatsu Works, locomotive number D51 200 has been overhauled and restored to operational condition for use as SL Yamaguchi and SL Kitabiwako starting in 2017. Hiro , a character based on the Class D51 and voiced by Togo Igawa , appears in the 2009 animated film Thomas & Friends: Hero of The Rails and thereafter became one of the show’s mainstays and the first character introduced after
60-453: The change to CGI. In the anime Hikarian the character Dozilas is based on the D51 498. The Transformers Decepticon Astrotrain transforms into a Class D51 and a space shuttle. The Gobots aka Machine Robo character Loco(Steam Robo) based on D-51 and has the number D-5147 on the character. Kisha Seizo Kisha Seizo Co., Ltd. ( 汽車製造株式会社 , Kisha Seizō Kabushiki Gaisha )
70-548: The gauge. According to the a journal published in 1956, ten locomotives were built by Nippon Sharyo for the Manila Railroad Company . These entered service in 1951. Numbered the 300 class, they were named after the cog locomotive class built in the 1910s for the Manila Railway. These locomotives differed from the rest of the D51 builds through the lack of smoke deflectors . The locomotives had
80-448: The same term This disambiguation page lists articles associated with the same title formed as a letter–number combination. If an internal link led you here, you may wish to change the link to point directly to the intended article. Retrieved from " https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=D51&oldid=1238687804 " Category : Letter–number combination disambiguation pages Hidden categories: Short description
90-688: Was designed by Hideo Shima . It was used mainly in freight service through the 1960s. Some D51s were fitted with the Giesl ejector in Hokkaido to conserve on fuel. The 30 specially built D51s that were left on Sakhalin (formerly Karafuto ) by the retreating Japanese at the end of the Second Sino-Japanese War (1937-1945) and after the Soviet-Japanese War (1945) , were used from 1945 until 1979 by Soviet Railways . One
100-618: Was left outside Yuzhno-Sakhalinsk railway station, and one is in running condition and is kept at the Yuzhno-Sakhalinsk railway station. Additionally two wrecks were left to the north of the city. Two locomotives were built for the Korean National Railroad in 1950 by Mitsubishi for South Korea during the Korean War . Designated Mika7 (미카7) class, they were nearly identical to JNR class D51 except for
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