JR Freight Class EH200

The JR Freight Class EH200 is a twin-unit direct-current electric freight locomotive with a Bo'Bo'+Bo'Bo' wheel arrangement, operated by Japan Freight Railway Company in Japan since 2001. The class is built at the Toshiba factory in Fuchu, Tokyo, and is based at Takasaki depot, where it works mainly oil tank trains north of Tokyo and the steeply graded Chuo Main Line, Shinonoi Line and Joetsu Line, replacing pairs of Class EF64 locomotives. A pre-production prototype, EH200-901, was delivered to Takasaki in 2001 and entered revenue service in October 2002, and the first full-production locomotive followed in March 2003. By March 2017 twenty-five locomotives were in service. In the class name, E marks an electric locomotive, H eight driving axles and 200 a DC locomotive with AC motors.