When he was in his teens, Buskirk started collecting train-related magazines and books. His first encounter with Japanese railways was through “Steam Locomotives of Japan,” a photo book his ...

Tobu Railway has been operating a tourist train hauled by a steam locomotive since 2017 in the Nikko area - a famous sightseeing spot in Japan. 00:43 The name of the tourist train is the "SL Taiju." ...

The test, the first of its kind in Japan, is expected to ... DL Taiju refers to the Class-DE10 diesel train incorporated to supplement the operations of its steam-driven counterpart.