January 24, 2019 02:20PM
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There were many US-built locos in Japan towards the end of the 19th century. Japan didn't start to build railways until the beginning of the 1870's but then got going with a vengeance! Railway construction was largely directed by the government and in order to gain experience of other countries' expertise they invited the British to develop railways on Honshu, the main island, the Germans to build on Kyushu to the west and the US to build on Hokkaido, Japan's large northern island. The eight Porter 2-6-0's on Hokkaido eventually became the state railway's 7100 class. Three have survived, one at the Kyoto Railway Museum in working order, one in the National Museum at Omiya and one on Hokkaido. There's also a fourth one on Hokkaido though I think that this one is a replica, and no 7150, a generally similar 2-6-0 built in 1895.
Japan didn't establish a loco-building industry until the first decade of the 20th century and until then relied on imported locos. A few US-built locos on the 3ft 6ins gauge have survived though nothing like as many as British and German ones. In addition to the three Porter 2-6-0's and some narrow gauge forestry locos the ones I know of are as follows though this probably isn't a comprehensive list:-
Kominato Ry 2-6-2T's no's 1 and 2 (Baldwin 57776 and 57777/1924). This local railway runs from a junction with the state railway at Goi on the eastern side of Tokyo Bay. When diesels arrived in the 1960's the two locos were just set aside at Goi loco shed and are still there more than 50 years later.
Bisai Ry 0-6-0T no 1 (Brooks 2779/1897) is one of two locos in working order at the Meiji Mura museum near Nagoya.
Imperial Government Railway 2-6-0T no 2851, later Seibu Ry no 7 (Pittsburgh 1711/1897) is plinthed at Higashi Shinagawa in Tokyo. I spent a long time trying to track this one down a few years ago but failed - but it's definitely still there!
Nagato Ry 0-6-0T no 1 (Porter 5682/1915) is at Takarazuka, Hyogo.
Japan has a large enthusiast community and numerous railway books and websites. Unfortunately these are usually only in the Japanese language and difficult for most Westerners to understand but a useful English-language page about the Porter 2-6-0's is at [
steam.fan.coocan.jp]. This page also includes historical details of the Hokkaido coach at the Omiya museum and there are many other pages on this website about Japanese steam locos. My own humble efforts at Omiya are at [
www.internationalsteam.co.uk] and there are links there to other pages about Japanese preserved railways including the Meiji Mura museum with its working Brooks loco.
Beyond Japan there are many preserved US-built locos in East Asia. There are three metre gauge Baldwin Pacifics and one Mikado in Thailand, an Alco 3ft 6ins gauge 2-8-0 at Miaoli in Taiwan along with no fewer than 15 Shays from the 2ft 6ins Alishan Forest Ry, three of them in working order, three 2ft gauge Baldwin 0-10-0's in China and numerous locos in the Philippines. I'm sure there must be others. They're all well worth visiting!
Best wishes,
James
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