There are more than a few steam locomotives sitting in parks across Japan, enjoying their retirement.

I wanted to acknowledge the ones I happen across for all their hard work, so I started the Static Life Steam Locomotives Project, SLSL for short.

^{_{A map of the Static Life Steam Locomotives & more about the project is here.}}

Number 2221 was another British built loco, although a bit later than 5540 – 8 years later, in fact. 2221 was built in 1905 by the largest locomotive manufacturing company in Europe, the North British Locomotive Company. (Although I’m not sure that that really counts, since it was a new company formed by the merger of three others – that’s kind of cheating, if you ask me.)

2221 is one of the Imperial Government Railways 2120 class tank locomotives, built to pull freight trains; it did, however, sometimes also see action pulling passenger trains up steep gradients.

Another example of this class also resides at the Nippon Institute of Technology, but I don’t think it’s open to the public.

TYPE 2120 (0-6-2 tank locomotive)

Here’s a breakdown of the details about this train, taken from the appendix to Steam Locomotives of Japan, Naotaka Hirota: Kodansha International (1972).
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Built by Dubs & Co. North British Co., Sharp Stewart & Co., and JNR-Kobe

CYLINDER: 406 x 610mm
BOILER PRESSURE: 12.5kg/cm²
FIRE GRATE AREA: 1.31m²
TOTAL HEATING SURFACE: 84.4m²
– EVAPORATIVE HEATING SURFACE: 84.4m²
– HEATING SURFACE OF SMOKE TUBES: 75.7m²
– HEATING SURFACE OF FIRE BOX: 8.7m²
BOILER CAPACITY: 5.2m³
SMALL SMOKE TUBES (diameter x length x number) 45 x 3140 mm x 192
WEIGHT OF ENGINE (in working order) 51.23t
WEIGHT OF ENGINE (empty) 38.19t
ADHESIVE WEIGHT OF ENGINE (in working order) 41.78t
WATER CAPACITY : 7.8m³
FUEL CAPACITY : 1.90t
VALVE GEAR : Stephenson’s
INTRODUCED : 1898

You can visit 2221 by going here.