The Class D62 (D62形) is a type of 2-8-4 wheel arrangement steam locomotive built by the Japanese National Railways (JNR) in 1950 and 1951. They were designed by Hideo Shima and rebuilt at Hamamatsu Works between 1950 and 1951 .
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20 Class D62s were rebuilt from the earlier Class D52, which had a 2-8-2 wheel arrangement.[1]
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No examples of the class have been preserved.[2]
The D62 is the model upon which the Transformers character Astrotrain is based.[3]
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