24/08/2013

Steam Locomotive in Japan (1970s)

There are lots of attractive video, which can be seen via Youtube.

C62, in 1971 Niseko , Hokkaido

C56 in 1972, Kobumi-line, Yamanashi-Nagano prefecture


C56 in Yasukuni-Shinto shrine in 1970s


C62 of 1996 in Hokkaido.




Now, Japan and Taiwan team up for steam train tourism.


CK124 (Japanese C12) and CK101 in Taiwan of 2012


(CK124 Source: Wikipedia)



There are some detailed articles about the tourism alliance.

Taiwan Today

Taipei Times



Groupsounds and the end of Steam Locomotive era was synchronising in Japanese society in the late 1960's and the early 1970s.



It was nostalgic memory about Japanese glorious days.
Gin-No-Kusari

(2013/08/24)

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