Meitetsu DeKi 600

The Meitetsu DeKi 600 was a Bo-Bo wheel arrangement electric locomotive operated by the Nagoya Railroad, known as Meitetsu, in Japan from 1943 until 2015. Toshiba built the four locomotives between 1943 and 1945. Numbers 603 and 604 were first built as E401 and E402 for the Japanese-occupied island of Hainan during World War II, but could not be shipped abroad and were bought by Meitetsu instead. The locomotives first hauled freight trains and later worked mostly on track maintenance trains and rolling stock transfers, with 601 and 602 normally based at Inuyama depot and 603 and 604 at Shinkawa depot. They were repainted in Meitetsu Blue during a life extension refurbishment in 1992, and all four were withdrawn in July 2015 and cut up after the new Class EL120 locomotives arrived.