Headquarters of JR Freight, in Chiyoda, Tokyo, Japan

Japan Freight Railway Company (日本貨物鉄道株式会社, Nippon Kamotsu Tetsudō Kabushiki-gaisha^?), or JR Freight (JR貨物, Jeiāru Kamotsu^?), is one of the constituent companies of Japan Railway (JR). It provides transportation of cargo nationwide. Image File history File linksMetadata Size of this preview: 450 × 600 pixelsFull resolution (1500 × 2000 pixel, file size: 698 KB, MIME type: image/jpeg) // (ja) File links The following pages on the English Wikipedia link to this file (pages on other projects are not listed): Japan Freight Railway Company Metadata... Image File history File linksMetadata Size of this preview: 450 × 600 pixelsFull resolution (1500 × 2000 pixel, file size: 698 KB, MIME type: image/jpeg) // (ja) File links The following pages on the English Wikipedia link to this file (pages on other projects are not listed): Japan Freight Railway Company Metadata... Approximate areas that the JR Hokkaido, JR East, JR Central, JR West, JR Shikoku, and JR Kyushu Companies cover. ...

Japan Railway companies were born in 1987, when Japanese National Railways was privatized, and then divided into 6 regional companies and Japan Freight Railway Company. Although Japan Rail was split into 6 companies, fares and regulations are standard for all companies and every region of Japan except Okinawa is covered by the railway network spanning approximately 19,800 kilometres (12,400 miles). A company in the broadest sense is an aggregation of people who stay together for a common purpose. ...

Formerly part of Japanese National Railways (JNR), it became a separate company when JNR was privatized and split on April 1, 1987. Although it has only about fifty kilometers of track of its own, it also operates on track owned by the JR passenger railways and other companies. The company uses the initials 'JRF' as an abbreviated name for identification. Japanese National Railways (日本国有鉄道 Nippon Kokuyū Tetsudō), abbreviated Kokutetsu (国鉄) or JNR, was the national railway network of Japan from 1872 to 1987. ... April 1 is the 91st day of the year (92nd in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar, with 274 days remaining. ... 1987 (MCMLXXXVII) was a common year starting on Thursday of the Gregorian calendar. ... km redirects here. ... Rail tracks. ...

An EF65 Freight Locomotive

JR Freight owns a variety of rolling stock, including Image File history File links No higher resolution available. ... Image File history File links No higher resolution available. ... A railroad car (or, more briefly, car, not to be confused with railcar), also known as an item of rolling stock, is a vehicle on a railroad (or railway) that is not a locomotive — one that provides another purpose than purely haulage, although some types of car are powered. ...

• Diesel locomotives
• DC electric locomotives
• AC electric locomotives
• AC/DC electric locomotives
• Freight EMUs
• Covered and uncovered cars with capacities up to 36 tons
• Carriers for automobiles, trucks and containers
• Large cars with capacities up to 80 tons
• Coal and hopper cars

A modern Diesel locomotive. ... Direct current (DC or continuous current) is the continuous flow of electricity through a conductor such as a wire from high to low potential. ... Modern three-phase AC locomotive (DBAG Class 152) A GG1 An electric locomotive is a locomotive powered by electric motors which draws current from an overhead wire (overhead lines), a third rail, or an on-board storage device such as a battery or a flywheel energy storage system. ... City lights viewed in a motion blurred exposure. ... Modern three-phase AC locomotive (DBAG Class 152) A GG1 An electric locomotive is a locomotive powered by electric motors which draws current from an overhead wire (overhead lines), a third rail, or an on-board storage device such as a battery or a flywheel energy storage system. ... Modern three-phase AC locomotive (DBAG Class 152) A GG1 An electric locomotive is a locomotive powered by electric motors which draws current from an overhead wire (overhead lines), a third rail, or an on-board storage device such as a battery or a flywheel energy storage system. ... M250 Series Super Rail Cargo freight EMU The JR Freight M250 Series Super Rail Cargo freight EMU was produced in 2002 with the objective of reducing emissions and carrying general freight for small package forwarders (such as special delivery services). ... Look up ton in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. ... Karl Benzs Velo (vélo means bicycle in French) model (1894) - entered into the first automobile race 2005 MINI Cooper S. An automobile (also motor car or simply car) is a wheeled passenger vehicle that carries its own motor. ... The driver of this DAF tractor with an auto-transport semi-trailer truck prepares to offload Škoda Octavia cars in Cardiff, Wales For other articles with similar names, see Lorry (disambiguation) and truck (disambiguation). ... Shipping containers at a terminal in Port Elizabeth, New Jersey. ... Coal Coal (IPA: ) is a fossil fuel formed in swamp ecosystems where plant remains were saved by water and mud from oxidization and biodegradation. ...

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• http://www.jrfreight.co.jp/ (Japanese)
• http://www.jrfreight.co.jp/english/ (English)