Sapporo Streetcar 250 series

The Sapporo Streetcar 250 series is a Japanese streetcar type operated by the Sapporo Municipal Transport Bureau on the Sapporo Streetcar network since June 1961.
==History==
The 250 series cars was a series of streetcars manufactured for the Sapporo Streetcar network. A total of five cars were manufactured in June 1961 by the Sapporo Sogo Kōgyō Cooperative, a cooperative of a number of minor rolling stock manufacturing companies based in Sapporo; two companies, Naebo Kōgyō and Taiwa Sharyō, manufactured the cars using equipment from scrapped 500 series cars.
Operation began in June 1961. Three cars were given full-body advertising in 1999, making these the first streetcars on the network to feature full-body advertising. 254 and 255 were retired in August 2022, having been replaced by 1100 series cars 1108 and 1109; both cars were later scrapped the same year.
==Design==
The 250 series cars feature a curvy design. Initially, the cars used a top-mounted headlight; this was later changed to dual headlights mounted on the front of the car. The cars's original livery was the Sapporo Municipal Transport Bureau's corporate colors of a tan body with green accents; in later years the cars would be repainted in their second corporate livery of all-over green.
==Specifications==
Construction of the cars is of steel. The cars use a nose suspension drive system and ride on Kawasaki KW-181 bogies; prior to this, they used a type of bogie manufactured in-house by the Sapporo Sogo Kōgyō Cooperative, specifically by Fujiya Tekkō. 
Unlike most other Sapporo-constructed streetcars, the 250 series cars were constructed with Z-type pantographs from new. 253 had its pantograph replaced with a single arm pantograph in 2010.
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