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Japan Freight Railway Company
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Japan Freight Railway Company (日本貨物鉄道株式会社 Nippon Kamotsu Tetsudō Kabushiki-gaisha?), or JR Freight (JR貨物 Jeiāru Kamotsu?), is one of the constituent companies of Japan Railway (JR). It provides transportation of cargo nationwide.
Japan Railway companies were born in 1987, when Japanese National Railways was privatized, and then divided into 6 regional companies and Japan Freight Railway Company. Although Japan Rail was split into 6 companies, fares and regulations are standard for all companies and every region of Japan except Okinawa is covered by the railway network spanning approximately 12,400 miles.
Formerly part of Japanese National Railways (JNR), it became a separate company when JNR was privatized and split on April 1, 1987. Although it has only about fifty kilometers of track of its own, it also operates on track owned by the JR passenger railways and other companies. The company uses the initials 'JRF' as an abbreviated name for identification.
JR Freight owns a variety of rolling stock, including
- Diesel locomotives
- DC electric locomotives
- AC electric locomotives
- AC/DC electric locomotives
- Freight EMUs
- Covered and uncovered cars with capacities up to 36 tons
- Carriers for automobiles, trucks and containers
- Large cars with capacities up to 80 tons
- Coal and hopper cars
- http://www.jrfreight.co.jp/ (Japanese)
- http://www.jrfreight.co.jp/english/ (English)