JGR Class 8000

The JGR Class 8000 (originally the Kyushu Railway Class 77 and 99) and the related Class 8050 (originally the Kyushu Railway Class 79) were 2-6-0 Mogul-type steam locomotives operated by the Japanese Government Railways from 1892 to 1923.
==History==
The Class 8000 was an early steam locomotive operated in Japan. The type was ordered by the Chikuhō Railway, with a total of seven locomotives manufactured by the Baldwin Locomotive Works from 1892 through 1895; three were manufactured in 1892, two in 1894 and two in 1895. These were numbered 7 through 9, 15 and 16 and 29 and 30; 9 was notable as it was a Vauclain compound steam locomotive. When the Chikuhō Railway was acquired by the Kyushu Railway, the locomotives were divided into three classes: 7 and 8 were reclassified as the Class 77 and renumbered 77 and 78, 9 was reclassified the Class 79 and renumbered as such while 29 and 30 were reclassified as the Class 99 and renumbered 99 and 100. 
The locomotives were reclassified as the Class 8000 in 1909 when a formal rule regarding standardized classification of locomotives was enacted; the locomotives were thus renumbered 8000 through 8005. The Vauclain compound locomotive was reclassified as the Class 8050 and renumbered as such, but was rebuilt at the Kyushu Railway's Kokura Works (currently JR Kyushu's Kokura Works) in 1915 to remove the compound cylinders; it was subsequently assimilated into the Class 8000s and renumbered 8006. The locomotives were used in Kitakyushu throughout its service life. The locomotives were all retired by 1923, with none sold to private railroads. No Class 8000s have been preserved.
==Trivia==
*Baldwin's model number for the Class 8000 and 8050 were 8-28-D and 8-16/30D respectively.
==References==
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