Japan Freight Railway Company

The Japan Freight Railway or JR Freight (日本貨物鉄道 Nihon Kamotsu Tetsudō) is one of the constituent companies of Japan Railway (JR). It provides transportation of cargo nationwide.

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.

JR Freight owns a variety of rolling stock, including

• DC Locomotives
• AC Locomotives
• AC/DC Locomotives
• 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

External links

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