Meanwhile in Japan...

David Notarius · **Posted:** Sun Jun 24, 2018 6:06 pm

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

LeoA · **Joined:** Mon Sep 28, 2015 12:30 am **Posts:** 312

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.

mjanssen · **Posted:** Wed Jun 27, 2018 12:21 pm

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

Shogo Takizawa · **Joined:** Thu Jun 29, 2017 9:10 pm **Posts:** 24

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

Cheers,

ST