Tsuyama Railroad Educational Museum
Tsuyama Railroad Educational Museum is a railway museum in Tsuyama, Okayama, Japan, operated by West Japan Railway Company since 2 April 2016. It is based around the former Tsuyama Depot roundhouse, which was used to house a number of preserved locomotives since 2007.
Exhibits
A total of 13 rolling stock exhibits are housed at the museum, including the nine vehicles previously preserved inside the roundhouse and vehicles moved from the former Modern Transportation Museum in Osaka which closed in April 2014.Steam locomotives
- Class D51 steam locomotive number D51 2
Diesel locomotives
- 10 t diesel shunting locomotive
- Class DD13 diesel locomotive number DD13 638
- Class DD15 diesel locomotive snowplough unit number DD15 30
- Class DD16-300 diesel locomotive snowplough unit number DD16 304
- Class DD51 diesel locomotive number DD51 1187
- Class DE50 diesel locomotive DE50 1
- Class DF50 diesel locomotive DF50 18
Diesel multiple units
- KiHa 33-1001
- KiHa 52-115
- KiHa 58-563 + KiHa 28-2329
- KiHa 181-12
History
The roundhouse structure was built in 1936 as part of Tsuyama Locomotive Depot, and originally contained 17 storage tracks.The museum opened on 2 April 2016.