JNR Class D62


The JNR 'Class D62' is a type of 2-8-4 wheel arrangement steam locomotive built by the Japanese National Railways in 1950 and 1951. They were designed by Hideo Shima and rebuilt at Hamamatsu Works between 1950 and 1951 in Japan to pull heavy freight trains though they can be seen on some passenger trains occasionally.
20 Class D62s were rebuilt from the earlier World War 2 built Class D52, which had a 2-8-2 wheel arrangement built between 1943-1946 in Japan’s empire which Japan allied with The Evil Axis powers led by Germany and Italy including Hungary and Romania Thailand.

List of D62 locomotives

  • D62 1 rebuilt from D52 358
  • D62 2 rebuilt from D52 448
  • D62 3 rebuilt from D52 401
  • D62 4 rebuilt from D52 450
  • D62 5 rebuilt from D52 449
  • D62 6 rebuilt from D52 42
  • D62 7 rebuilt from D52 344
  • D62 8 rebuilt from D52 366 1950
  • D62 9 rebuilt from D52 94
  • D62 10 rebuilt from D52 132
  • D62 11 rebuilt from D52 337
  • D62 12 rebuilt from D52 397
  • D62 13 rebuilt from D52 211
  • D62 14 rebuilt from D52 334
  • D62 15 rebuilt from D52 377
  • D62 16 rebuilt from D52 338
  • D62 17 rebuilt from D52 343
  • D62 18 rebuilt from D52 360
  • D62 19 rebuilt from D52 339
  • D62 20 rebuilt from D52 462

    Preservation

No examples of the D62 Locomotive class have been preserved all were retired from pulling freight trains in 1966 and all 20 locomotives were scrapped.

In popular culture

The JNR D62 Berkshire Locomotive is the model upon which the Transformers Decepticon character Astrotrain is based despite that Astrotrain is based on the JNR Class D51 Mikado.