More EF200 being scrapped

[Das Steinkopf]

Sadly the time for the remaining members of the class to have their date with the gas axe is not far away, on the 28th of March 2019 EF200-18 was at the head of the final freight train to be hauled by the class from Shimonoseki to Suita, they have all now been officially retired from service.

 

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Edited March 30, 2019 by Das Steinkopf

[lighthouse]

It's interesting that the EF200 was retired before the much older EF66. 🤔

[railsquid]

The EF66-100s are only slightly older (1989-1991 vs 1990-1993) and the EF200s apparently couldn't live up to their full potential due to the additional strain they placed on the power infrastructure so effectively ended up as a small, non-standard class with no particular advantage over the EF66-100s.

[Das Steinkopf]

The EF200’s are a much smaller class compared to the EF66-0’s as there was 56 built including the prototype EF66-901, the EF200’s totalled 21 units including EF200-901. When JNR was split up JRF received the first 40 of the EF66-0’s and would have received a substantial parts holding, coupled to the fact that the 33 members of the EF66-100 class share a number of components and running gear of the EF66-0’s there is more than enough bits and pieces to keep the remaining two EF66-0’s (EF66-27 & EF66-30) running until the frames are well and truly stuffed.