That's a nice video! The steam locomotive was built by "Vulcan Foundry" in England, 1872. I wish I could go to Japan to visit such a beautiful village in the future!
Actually, I've read that this particular engine was manufactured by the Stephenson works in 1874, albeit to a design very similar to that of the original 1872 Vulcan. I do agree with your sentiments, though; Once I get the chance to travel to Japan, the Meiji Mura museum is most definitely on my itinerary.
Thank you very much for your visit. We call this village "Meiji-Mura", and lies Inuyama-shi in Aichi-ken. You can come very easily from Chubu International Airport. I wish you will come to see Japan some day.
@sirrliv Correction. This engine was not built by Stephenson, but by the Sharps-Stuart Company, to a design that had already proven extremely successful on the earlier Shinbashi-Yokohama Line, in 1874. Originally, she was assigned to the then new Kobe-Osaka-Kyoto Line before being sold to the Bisai Railway in 1911. She was given to Meiji Mura in 1965 and returned to steam in 1973. So far as I know, she's the only one of the 3 surviving pioneers to still be in steam.
![[150 years old] Japan's oldest dynamic steam locomotive [Museum Meiji Village]](http://i.ytimg.com/vi/WBnVzlAOlAc/mqdefault.jpg)
![[150 years old] Japan's oldest dynamic steam locomotive [Museum Meiji Village]](/img/tr.png)
That's a nice video! The steam locomotive was built by "Vulcan Foundry" in England, 1872. I wish I could go to Japan to visit such a beautiful village in the future!
Actually, I've read that this particular engine was manufactured by the Stephenson works in 1874, albeit to a design very similar to that of the original 1872 Vulcan.
I do agree with your sentiments, though; Once I get the chance to travel to Japan, the Meiji Mura museum is most definitely on my itinerary.
Thank you very much for your visit. We call this village "Meiji-Mura", and lies Inuyama-shi in Aichi-ken. You can come very easily from Chubu International Airport. I wish you will come to see Japan some day.
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@sirrliv Correction. This engine was not built by Stephenson, but by the Sharps-Stuart Company, to a design that had already proven extremely successful on the earlier Shinbashi-Yokohama Line, in 1874. Originally, she was assigned to the then new Kobe-Osaka-Kyoto Line before being sold to the Bisai Railway in 1911. She was given to Meiji Mura in 1965 and returned to steam in 1973. So far as I know, she's the only one of the 3 surviving pioneers to still be in steam.
京都の梅小路公園内を走る明治時代の路面電車は蓄電池式なので静かに走るのが物足りないです。
昔から蓄電池でしたっけ？