The JGR Class 9700 (originally the Nippon Railway Class Bt4/6) was a 2-8-2 Mikado-type steam locomotive operated by the Japanese Government Railways from 1897 to 1922. The 9700 was used mainly as a passenger locomotive and was considered the strongest pulling locomotive in Japan at the time...

The Class 9600 (9600形) is a type of 2-8-0 steam locomotive built by Japanese Government Railways (JGR, after-day Japanese National Railways (JNR)) from 1913. The Class 9600 was the first type of locomotive to be mass-produced by Japanese manufacturers.

The 9600 was produced from the basic 2-8-0's class 9000, 9150, 9200 and the 2-8-2's class 9700 design. A total of 770 (*) were manufactured during the 14 years from 1913. This was the second largest model manufactured of all Japanese steam engines. (* JGR - 770, Karafuto R. - 14, Taiwan R. - 39, Private R. - 5, Total - 828)

2024年1月12日 · In 1943, the class rejoined the JGR after the latter took over the KPR. They were soon discarded. When the Karafuto Prefectural Railway was acquired by the JGR, seven locomotives returned to JGR ownership but all were retired by 1945.

He speculated that Yasujiro Shima, the JGR's well-known motive power exponent, wouldn't have accepted "imports that had not been technically evaluated" by JGR's locomotive engineers." But Shima was in Germany at the time and couldn't counter "aggressive" sales tactics on the part of three major locomotive builders--Baldwin, Henschel, and Alco.

9700形は、かつて日本国有鉄道（国鉄）の前身である鉄道院に在籍していた貨物列車牽引用のテンダー式蒸気機関車で、もとは日本鉄道が1897年（明治30年）にアメリカのボールドウィン社から輸入したものである。

It was an Articulated-Multiple-Cylinder type steam locomotive for banking service over Hakone pass on the Tokaido line. During the post Japanese-Russo War period (1904-1905) in 1910, more powerful banker engines were needed on the Hakone pass on Tokaido's arterial line, with an increase in traffic volume.

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First ordered in 1873 by the JGR, two locomotives were built by Manning Wardle and Company in the United Kingdom in 1873 and imported into Japan in 1875. One Class 1290, 1292, the locomotive nicknamed “Zenkō”, survives today at the Railway Museum in Saitama.

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