Thai - Burma 'Death' railway loco, 2019

Nine photos of a loco used on this notorious railway, whose construction cost over 100,000 lives.

C5631, Yushukan Museum, Yasukuni Shrine, Tokyo, 22 March 2019 1. Here are nine photos of this lightweight 2-6-0, one of 164 built 1935 - 1937. It was used on the notorious Thai - Burma 'Death' Railway built in 1942 - 1943 by local civilians and Allied prisoners of war. Japanese brutality to their forced labourers was extreme. About 90,000 civilians and more than 12,000 POWs died.

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C5631, Yushukan Museum, Yasukuni Shrine, Tokyo, 22 March 2019 1. Here are nine photos of this lightweight 2-6-0, one of 164 built 1935 - 1937. It was used on the notorious Thai - Burma 'Death' Railway built in 1942 - 1943 by local civilians and Allied prisoners of war. Japanese brutality to their forced labourers was extreme. About 90,000 civilians and more than 12,000 POWs died.