Steam Locomotive

No.150

Class 150

1871 - 1930

One of ten of Japan's imported first ten steam locomotives.



These scenes are of the 1870s original Shinbashi station
and reproduced with the No.1 engine.




You can see the real restored platform and station building at the Shinbashi museum.

Zero mile post and restored track.
(Shinbashi museum)



Please see

Japan's First Steam Engines


for more details on Class 150 (ex-No.1) engine.


No.150 engine's rear hook passenger car is a precise reproduction of the original passenger car and was exhibited in Manseibashi Museum from August 1970.



A light man puppet in original period costume
on the roof of a reproduced passenger car.



Reproduced 1870s car interior





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