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type: Article
title: Japanese L Type industrial locomotive
description: Recent purchase of a tiny loco from Japan.
resource: https://www.simoncox.com/short-articles/2006-12-05-japanese-l-type-industrial-locomotive/
tags: [Shorticles, Modelling]
timestamp: 2006-12-05
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![Japanese L Type industrial locomotive](/assets/img/content/h0_9mm_l_type_040_hbach_475.jpg){loading="eager"}

Recently I purchased an unusual HOe locomotive from Japan. This stunning little locomotive has outside frames and a working couping rod and comes either as a kit or ready to run having been put together from the kit by a 70 year old craftsman in Japan. It is a HOe scale 9mm gauge.
Japanese L Type industrial locomotive, HOe scale 9mm gauge at the H Back shed

Here I have the loco running on Henk Wurst’s German logging layout ’H Bach‘ and it looks right at home.

![Japanese L Type industrial locomotive outside a woodshed](/assets/img/content/h0_9mm_l_type_040_475.jpg)

Japanese L Type industrial locomotive, HOe scale 9mm gauge outside the H Back logging plant

Currently I have no plans to run this on Loxley Barton as it is too modern, probably...

And John Jacobs had a little drive.

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