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JNR Class C62
The is a type of 4-6-4 steam locomotive built by Japanese National Railways (JNR) in Japan. The C classification indicates three sets of driving wheels. The C62 was built with a 4-6-4 frame, upon which was mounted the boiler of the JNR Class D52 2-8-2 locomotives.
These were the largest and fastest steam passenger locomotives to run in Japan, and hauled the ''Tsubame'' (swallow) express on the Tōkaidō Main Line between and . Only South Africa operated more powerful Cape gauge locomotives.〔Naotaka Hirota ''Steam Locomotives of Japan'' (1972) Kodansha International Ltd. p.8 ISBN 0-87011-185-X〕 Forty-nine C62s were built from 1948 to 1949. Five C62s hauled the ''Teine'' express in Hokkaido between and after they were displaced by electrification of the Tōkaidō Main Line. Two locomotives were used to double-head trains on the 2.5% (1:40) grades between Otaru and where they were a popular tourist and railfan attraction until 1971.〔 The last examples in regular service were withdrawn in 1973.
A class C62 locomotive, C62 17, broke the speed record for a narrow-gauge steam locomotive on 15 December 1954 when it reached on the Tōkaidō Main Line. This locomotive was preserved in a park in Nagoya, and later moved to the SCMaglev and Railway Park in Nagoya.
==In popular culture==
The C62 has achieved a level of fame due in part to the manga/anime series ''Galaxy Express 999'', in which the express is pulled by an advanced space locomotive that is built to replicate a C62.
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