Oil tank train 5090 heads down Kosugo pass from Rikuzensan-no(Miyagi Pref.) Overripe persimmons are seen along the truck.

Freight liner 3065 to Sapporo, Hokkaido island attacks Kosugo pass between Fukushima and Miyagi prefectures on a clear winter afternoon.

A JRF operated EF210 series train is approaching Kannai station in Yokohama hauling a bunch of tank cars.

A 42 years old veteran ED75113 heads local freight 857 under clear winter sky. Zao mountains are seen in the distance.

Old JNR fashion locomotive is still in use.

A heavy snow hit most parts of Kanto area including Tokyo in February, 2014. The workers were trying to move the locomotive in the yard.

1350 HP diesel-hydraulic locomotive of DE10-1500 series of JR Freight, with interesting C-B wheel arrangement, built from 1969. Locomotive # 1674 is in service in the Minamimatsumoto container yar... (more)

Rare paint-less scheme stainless body electric locomotive unit in Japan built specially for the Kanmon undersea Railway Tunnel line that connects Honshu main island and Kyushu island. Now EF81 303... (more)

Bo'Bo'Bo' locomotive EF66 # 126 of JR Freight with a container train to the Nagoya terminal is passing Sasashimaraibu station. This 3900 kW EF66-100 locomotives were built from 1989 by Kawasaki Sh... (more)

EH200 Bo'Bo'+Bo'Bo' double locomotive "Blue Thunder" for freight trains under 1500 V DC with a power of 4520 kW and max 110 km p.h. in the freight yard of Minamimatsumoto, ready to pick up a conta... (more)

A flock of swans see off ED75 113, a 45-year-old veteran along the Tohoku main line. Seven units of ED75 are still in use for freight service after the March 11, 2011 earthquake. It is known they ... (more)

The rice‐planting season has come to Tohoku (Northeast area of Honshu main island). This power unit wear special message of "Ganbaro Tohoku (Let's recover Tohoku) to encourage the disaster a... (more)

DD51 freight liner.

ED75 double unit freight is seen only once a week on Sunday morning in south of Sendai area to haul the train 3089 (Umeda, Osaka to Miyagino, Sendai.) Mt. Zao is seen as a backdrop.

Freight train 92 from Sapporo (Hokkaido island) to Sumidagawa (Tokyo) keeps on-time in this rarely heavy snowfall.