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Umekoji SL musium

Umekoji steam locomotive musium is the only one regular live steam locomotive musium in Japan, located inside of the delta area between Tokaido (JR-Kyoto) line ,Sann-inn (Sagano) line and shortcut passage for freight trains through the Tokaido and Sann-inn lines.

The east side of SL musium is a public park "Umekoji-Koen" the greenful area in the middle of Kyoto city, and SL musium has about 1 kilometer of exhibitio drive railroad by the south edge of the park, just going along by Tokaido and Sann-inn lines for nearby Kyoto station districts. In the weekend, the exhibition train runs this course making a round trip, about 3 times in a day.

The live SL pavillion has a round sector style garage for the live and retired SLs and turntable at the center of the garage.

You can see one red diesel locomotive in the left end of the picture, that is a removal equipment for the retired SLs.

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Uploaded on July 11, 2006
Taken on June 24, 2006