Road locomotive

Steam locomotive for road surface of Chiemsee railroad (Germany)

Mixed train operated by towing steam locomotive on combination track (Fukuoka prefecture)

Iyo railroad's "Botchan train"

Road locomotive(Rokemen kanzasha) refers to the purpose intended for use with the top laid.

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Overview

Because it aims to toy and so on, it does not have facilities that can carry passengers like. Considering invasion of people and animals into the joint track, a (rescue network) on the front of the body and a cover for covering the wheels on the side of the vehicle body are attached.

steam locomotive

In European countries, since the late nineteenth century the introduction for the mobilization of horse-drawn carriages was promoted and gradually improved to a form suitable for use on the track surface. Those whose development has progressed are shaped so that the whole car body is covered with a waist plate and a roof like a passenger car and so that the passenger car can be towed freely by traveling in the front and rear direction without using a turning platform, Like the convex locomotive for locomotive, the driver 's seat is also set sideways at the center of the car body (the engine assistant is located near the boiler firing opening like a general steam locomotive). This type of steam locomotive It is called Steam Tram, but there are few examples of use in Japan.

The steam locomotive for the road surface used in Japan is of a form provided with a disaster etc. in a small tank type steam locomotive. The tow locomotive which is currently being operated restores this.

There are records used in Nanhai Railway, which is the predecessor of the standard line and many previously seen in.

Electric locomotive / internal combustion locomotive

The track dedicated to cargo which had been operated from to was to run on the road by pulling a freight train. In addition, there were also direct train service operations in some sections of and, each possessing a locomotive electric locomotive (and see).

In the early 1900 's, it was often used in orbital routes of Fukuoka / Saga prefecture 914 mm orbit, but many were used on joint orbits, equipped with a disaster (rescue network) etc.

It is sometimes used, although it restored the form of the steam locomotive for the road surface with preserved railroad etc. The German Chiemsee railway () keeps the dynamic car of the steam tram dynamically and operates, but also possesses a diesel locomotive model imitating the form of steam tram as a spare machine and trains at the time of inspection of the steam tram etc. It is used for towing. In addition, the locomotive locomotive of Japan is a diesel locomotive that restored the form of a steam locomotive.

Works on which a road locomotive appears

• "" And its puppet dramatized work "" is a road locomotive.
• There is a scene where the steam tram type locomotive is running on the animated movie "].

footnote

1. *Niizaki Masaru "Green Steam Tram" ("February 1985 issue (No.13) p.83-86 posted) 2. Wakamatsu Municipal Administration until. Also, since then the jurisdiction of the project was changed from the transportation department to the economic department. 3. ***Toru Yuguchi "The Petroleum Car" ("Railroad History" No. 80, 1995 p.43 - p.50)

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