Winter steam: Amemiya #21 makes rare winter run today

[bikkuri bahn]

@Engaru-Cho Maruseppu Forest Park in Hokkaido

#21 is a 762mm gauge wood burning tank engine built by Amemiya Works of Tokyo in 1928, originally for the Murii Forestry Railway of Maruseppu Town. Now it usually operates for tourists April through October, this is the first time in 12 years it has run in winter.

[Densha]

I like those steam plumes.

[Nick_Burman]

Good whistle too. Are the coaches replicas or the real mackoy?

 

Cheers NB

[Sacto1985]

That has to be one of the smallest steam locomotives I've seen running on a video. Loud, distinctive whistle, too.

[dabsan]

Great video, yes very loud whistle 

[Densha]

That has to be one of the smallest steam locomotives I've seen running on a video.

In Japan or in general?

[Sacto1985]

That has to be one of the smallest steam locomotives I've seen running on a video.

In Japan or in general?

 

I think in general for a REAL railroad. I know there is an even smaller steam locomotive running in northeastern China serving a coal mine, but that's about it as I remember it.

[Densha]

Yeah, most of us will know those industrial locos I guess. (used in the past in Europe too, for example: http://www.smalspoormuseum.nl/Materieel/Stoomlocs.html)

Then there's still the interlocal steam trains from the distant past, but they were more trams than trains.

[marknewton]

An attractive loco with a nicely-toned whistle.

 

Here's one that's a lot smaller, but just as loud:

 

 

Cheers,

 

Mark.