Nippon Kokan KK

[Nick_Burman]

 

Switching locomotives at the (now closed*) Nippon Kokan KK tube works at Tsurumi. One the locos in the film is the Meiji Mura Baldwin.

 

*= the mill is still located at Tsurumi, however it has been transferred to an artificial island not far off, according to what one can see in Google Earth.

 

Cheers NB

[westfalen]

Love that C11 racing along the side of the road with one wagon in tow.

[Jcarlton]

Is this the steel plant on the East end of HamaKawasaki yard?  There is a big cement plant there now, but my Charles Small digram shows the yard with the spurs to the tube plant with a bridge over the yard that is now gone.

[The_Ghan]

If I had myself a farm, and enough money, I'd buy myself a C11 and a few wagons and play "big boys trains"!!!

 

Cheers

 

The_Ghan

[Nick_Burman]

Is this the steel plant on the East end of HamaKawasaki yard?  There is a big cement plant there now, but my Charles Small digram shows the yard with the spurs to the tube plant with a bridge over the yard that is now gone.

 

I believe it is, however the film says Asano station, this is farther west from Hamakawasaki where the Umi-Shibaura branch peels off from the Tsurumi line. Maybe one of our Japan-based members can expand on it.

 

Cheers NB

[keitaro]

If I had myself a farm, and enough money, I'd buy myself a C11 and a few wagons and play "big boys trains"!!!

 

Cheers

 

The_Ghan

 

as would I. A mate of mine just bought 24Ha of land in in central coast for 230K buy buy buy :p