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 Post subject: Meanwhile in Japan...
PostPosted: Sun Jun 24, 2018 6:06 pm 

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http://www.asahi.com/ajw/articles/AJ201806220005.html


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 Post subject: Re: Meanwhile in Japan...
PostPosted: Mon Jun 25, 2018 3:00 am 

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Not related to this specific locomotive, but do you happen to know if JNR Class 9600 #39685 was saved? She was threatened with scrapping a couple of years ago, but I never heard anything further.


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 Post subject: Re: Meanwhile in Japan...
PostPosted: Wed Jun 27, 2018 12:21 pm 

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Someday to be the fate of other "garden" locomotives in the U.S......


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 Post subject: Re: Meanwhile in Japan...
PostPosted: Tue Jul 03, 2018 12:21 am 

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39685 was scrapped around September to October 2016. Saitama City cited the cost of stabilizing the locomotive (50M JPY+, or $450K), as well as the condition of its display plinth (risk of collapse in the event of an earthquake) as deciding factors.

I will attach a link to a Japanese railway news website. The contents are (roughly) as I have outlined above.
https://railf.jp/news/2016/09/11/200000.html

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