[Image Credit: All the photos in this article are taken from Wikipedia.] The complex and expensive Mallet locomotives did not fit the policy of the Railway Bureau, where Yasujirō Shima (島安次郎) was the ...

The header image (via Pinterest) was taken at Niimi Engine Depot (新見機関区) of JNR Hakubi Line (国鉄伯備線). For those born in countries where special types of steam locomotives such as Cab-forward (by ...