Where what the ED62s hauled ended...

[Nick_Burman]

 

Vicom is doing a series of interesting short clips showing industrial switching operations throughout Japan. The latest (or one of the latest) shows the freight terminal at Motozenkoji, off Iida station on the Iida line. This terminal concentrated 4 customers: an oil products terminal (Toyo Sekiyu), two cement silos (Chichibu Onoda and Itakuni - could someone please confirm this, I'm reading off Google Translator) and a JA Nagano gas transfer station. Since JNR refused to do industrial shunting (and the line was unelectrified anyway), moving cars was contracted to Nippon Tsuun (itself owned by JNR!) who assigned a 25ton locomotive to the task. The interesting bit is that it shows the TaKi25000 tank cars made by Tomix. So one could justify creating a short freight for one's ED62 with one or two tanks followed by cement cars. The whole setup would make a perfect Inglenook-style switching layout.

[miyakoji]

I think those cement companies are 3 separate ones, not 2.  It says that the loco was built by Nippon Sharyo in 1965 and was moved to Fuji Station on the Tokaido for switching Nippon Paper's Fuji plant.