C53-45 without Smoke Deflectors (Model Train) - HobbySearch Model Train N Store

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- Actual vehicle guide
With the demand for passenger transport demand and train speed improvement demanded, we looked at the result of importing 6 of the 3-cylinder type 8200 form (later C 52), which was worldwide prevalent at the time of Taisho in 2002, to Showa 3 C53 was manufactured as 97 domestic production vehicles for the first time in 3 cylinder system from the year to the 5th year.
Although it worked as a main force of the passenger train of the Tokaido main line · Sanyo main line, it took troublesome maintenance maintenance and repair of 3 cylinders, and due to the appearance of successor aircraft and electrification etc, all Showa 25 became scrapped cars. This Unit 45 was left in a corner of the Takatori factory after scrapping, after self-running in 1953, it entered the Traffic Science Museum in Osaka (present · Traffic Science Museum), afterwards in accordance with the opening of Umekogenan steam locomotive building It turned to the same building and is currently preserved.


Total length: 20.6 m
Weight: 80.98 t
Driving wheel diameter: 1750 mm
Axis arrangement: 2-C-1
Weight: 15.4 t
Maximum speed: 110 km / h

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Item Size/Weight : 19.4 x 5.5 x 2.9 cm / 169g