JGR Class Ke 120

The JGR Class Ke 120 (originally the Uonuma Railway Class 3) was a 0-4-0WT Switcher-type narrow gauge well tank steam locomotive operated by the Japanese Government Railways from 1912 to October 1944.
==History==
The Class Ke 120 was an early steam locomotive used in Japan. The locomotives were ordered by the Uonuma Railway, the predecessor to the now-closed Uonuma Line operated by the JNR. Two locomotives were manufactured by Orenstein & Koppel, with one manufactured in 1912 and 1913; the locomotives were designated the Class 3 and numbered 3 and 4. When the Uonuma Railway was nationalized on 15 June 1922, both locomotives came under the ownership of the Japanese Government Railways, where they were reclassified the Class Ke 120 and renumbered Ke 120 and Ke 121.
Throughout their careers the locomotives were stationed on the Uonuma Line. Ke 120 was withdrawn first in May 1934, while Ke 121 was used until the Uonuma Line was deemed non-necessary and operations temporarily halted on 15 October 1944. Ke 121 was then stored at Nagaoka Depot and scrapped in 1948.
No Class Ke 120 locomotives have been preserved.
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