Zipang National Railways, C63

Class: C63

Wheel arrangement: 0-6-0T

Designer: Ando Chomei

Manufacturer: Heguri locomotive and wagon works, Kube Heavy Industries, Kayumi Ironworks

Build date: 1959 - 1970

Total Production: 571

Brief History:

The C63 tank engines, were the smallest and most diminutive class of steam locomotive device as part of the standard series of locomotives. However, despite their small and relatively diminutive size compared to other tank engines that preceded them and their fellow standard locomotive cousins, these little tank engines prove themselves to be valuable and indispensable shunting locomotives, with many of them serving up until the end of steam on the Zipang railway network in 1993.