Sapporo Streetcar 210 series

The Sapporo Streetcar 210 series is a Japanese streetcar type operated by the Sapporo Municipal Transport Bureau on the Sapporo Streetcar network since November 1958.
==History==
The 210 series cars was a series of streetcars manufactured for the Sapporo Streetcar network. A total of six cars were manufactured between November and December 1958 by the Sapporo Sogo Kōgyō Cooperative, a cooperative of a number of minor rolling stock manufacturing companies based in Sapporo; three companies, Fujiya Tekkō, Taiwa Sharyō and Unyu Kōgyō, manufactured the cars using equipment from scrapped 110 and 120 series cars.
Operation began in November 1958. 215 and 216 were retired in March 1989, leaving four cars in use; 213 was retired in March 2021. 
==Design==
The 210 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. 
Their original current collectors were bow collectors; these were later changed to Z-type pantographs. 212 had its pantograph replaced with a single arm pantograph in 2017.
==Preservation==
213 is privately preserved on the premises of a construction company in Tonden, Sapporo after its retirement in March 2021.
After their retirements in March 1989, 215 and 216 were preserved in different locations. 215 was used as a restaurant in Yoichi, Hokkaido but was later removed and scrapped, while 216 was used as a library in Nishi, Sapporo; its body was later removed and scrapped, leaving just its bare chassis, with the body of 330 series car 335 installed in its place.
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