Sakuma Rail Park

Sakuma Rail Park

佐久間レールパーク
View from the station platform in August 2008
Location within Japan
Established	21 April 1991
Dissolved	1 November 2009
Location	Hamamatsu, Shizuoka, Japan
Coordinates	35°05′08″N 137°48′09″E / 35.085511°N 137.802622°E
Type	Railway museum
Public transit access	Chūbu-Tenryū Station

The Sakuma Rail Park (佐久間レールパーク Sakuma Rēru Pāku) was an open-air railway museum located next to Chūbu-Tenryū Station on the Iida Line in Hamamatsu, Shizuoka, Japan. It was operated by Central Japan Railway Company (JR Central), and was opened on 21 April 1991.^[1] The museum closed on 1 November 2009 in preparation for the move to a new SCMaglev and Railway Park in Nagoya in 2011.^[1]

Exhibits

As of June 2009, the following railway vehicles were on display.^[1][2][3]

Shinkansen

• 0 Series Shinkansen car – No. 21-2023 (cab end only, later moved to J-TREC factory in Yokohama)^[4]

Locomotives

• JNR Class ED11 electric locomotive - No. ED11 2 (built 1922 by General Electric, later moved to SCMaglev and Railway Park)
• JNR Class ED62 electric locomotive - No. ED62 14

• 
  ED62 14
• 
  ED11 2, August 2008

Electric railcars

• Class KuMoHa 12 EMU car - No. MoHa 12054 (rebuilt 1959)
• Class KuMoHa 52 EMU car - No. MoHa 52004 (built 1937 by Kawasaki Sharyo, later moved to SCMaglev and Railway Park)
• 111 series EMU car - No. KuHa 111-1 (built 1962 by Nippon Sharyo, later moved to SCMaglev and Railway Park)
• KuYa 165 EMU car - No. KuYa 165-1 (rebuilt 1974 from former SaHaShi 153-15)

• 
  MoHa 52004, August 2008
• 
  KuHa 111-1, August 2008
• 
  KuYa 165-1, August 2008

Diesel railcars

• Class KiHa 48000 railcar - No. KiHa 48036 (built 1956 by Tokyu Car, later moved to SCMaglev and Railway Park)
• Class KiHa 181 DMU car - No. KiHa 181-1 (built 1968 by Fuji Heavy Industries, later moved to SCMaglev and Railway Park)

• 
  KiHa 48036, August 2008
• 
  KiHa 181-1, August 2008

Passenger carriages

• SuNi 30 passenger carriage – No. SuNi 30 95 (built 1929 by Osaka Tekko, later moved to SCMaglev and Railway Park)
• OYa 31 passenger carriage – No. OYa 31 12 (built 1937 by Nakata Sharyo, later moved to SCMaglev and Railway Park)
• OHaFu 33 passenger carriage – No. OHaFu 33 115
• OHa 35 passenger carriage – No. OHa 35 206 (built 1941 by Nippon Sharyo, later moved to SCMaglev and Railway Park)
• MaINe 40 sleeping carriage – No. MaINe 40 7 (built 1948 by Nippon Sharyo, later moved to SCMaglev and Railway Park)
• 10 series sleeping carriage – No. ORoNe 10 27 (built 1960 by Hitachi, later moved to SCMaglev and Railway Park)

• 
  ORoNe 10 27, August 2008

Other vehicles

• So 80 crane - No. So 180 & ChiKi 6132 match wagon

• 
  Crane So 180, August 2008
• 
  Match wagon ChiKi 6132, August 2008

References

1. "佐久間レールパーク展示車両とイベント情報 (Sakuma Rail Park Exhibits and Event Information)". Tetsudō Daiya Jōhō. Japan: Kōtsū Shimbun. 38 (304): 38–42. August 2009.
2. "「リニア・鉄道館」ファーストガイド" ["SCMaglev and Railway Park" First Guide]. Tetsudō Daiya Jōhō Magazine. Vol. 40 no. 324. Japan: Kōtsū Shimbun. April 2011. pp. 20–33.
3. "リニア・鉄道館　会館" [SCMaglev and Railway Park opens]. Japan Railfan Magazine. Vol. 51 no. 601. Japan: Kōyūsha Co., Ltd. May 2011. pp. 64–73.
4. 0系新幹線電車前頭部を保存します [0 Series Shinkansen Front Section Preserved] (PDF) (Press release) (in Japanese). Tokyu Car Corporation. 23 August 2010. Archived from the original (PDF) on 11 October 2010. Retrieved 18 September 2012.

External links

• Official website at the Wayback Machine (archived 19 June 2009) (Japanese)