筑豊本線のD60です。「デロリンマル」と呼んでました。オリジナルのD50って最も好きな機関車の一つなんです。どうもバランスの取れ過ぎたものは嫌いで、どこかあくの強いものを持ってるのが好きなんですね。D50はこの武骨さがたまりません。確か6X6の150mmで流しました。これをするためにスポーツファインダーを自作しました。

I liked rugged styled of D50 and D60 classes very much. I did not like so much locos with too much balanced shape. I liked something distinctive and unique.

I took this photo with a 6X6 camera with 150mm lens and made a sports finder by myself for this purpose.

JNR D60 Class

なぜかおばさんの写真が好きだったりしたのです。肝心の汽缶車がボケボケでも全然気にしなかったのです。

I liked taking photos of old women in work and did not care of out of focus on the trains.

JNR D60 Class

C55のスポーク動輪っていいですね。国鉄旅客機の中ではこいつが一番好きでした。なんてったってスポーク動輪。28mmで流しをするとどうなるかと思って撮ったものです。

Beautiful large spoke drivers of C55 class.

JNR C55 Class

スポーク動輪フェチの私は本体がろくに写ってなくてもスポーク動輪の存在を感じさせる写真であればOKだったりします。

JNR C55 Class

筑豊と言えばぼた山は名物みたいなものですね。Coal slagheaps were sort of icon of Chikuhou area.

JNR C55 Class

当時の筑豊は蒸機全盛の雰囲気ですね。Still Chikuhou had a strong smell of steam age.

JNR D60 & 9600 Classes

JNR D60 Classes

JNR D50 and D60 Classes

D50 class was designed to overtake 9600 class (standard freight loco then) and manufactured from 1923 to 1931. Only 380 of them were manufactured because of less demand of freight while the Great Depression. D50 class was the first class in JNR locos that employed American loco design practices, such as bar-framed truck, water pump & water heater and arch pipe in the boiler and considered as mother of modern JNR locos. D50 class was very much relied on by engineers and some engineers preferred D50 to later model of D51.

D60 class was a modified D50. They were modified to replace retiring 9600 class. The driver axle weight of D50 class was too heavy for local lines. So D60 class had two axle trailing track to distribute weight. The two axle trailing track was too modern and did not match to the original parts at all. But I appreciated the modification because it extended the life of the class.

D50 class was probably my most favourite JNR loco of all. Unfortunately I was born too late to take photos of them but lucky enough to see D60 class.