Talk:JGR Class 150

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Build date?

Is this 1871 or 1893? Was the 1871 locomotive built by Vulcan in England, and the first locally built one in 1893? What is the scope of this article? Andy Dingley (talk) 10:47, 25 September 2017 (UTC)[reply]

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What are these locos, and the preserved museum loco, at Commons? Andy Dingley (talk) 10:50, 25 September 2017 (UTC)[reply]

Confusion with JGR Class 160

These articles seem to have been created as near duplicates. Something is amiss.

I suspect (I am lacking sources for early Japanese steam locos) that the 150 was British built, by Vulcan, in 1871 and the 160 was Japanese built in 1893? Andy Dingley (talk) 11:00, 25 September 2017 (UTC)[reply]

Both types were built in the UK, and most of the information initially included in the articles was unfortunately wildly inaccurate. --DAJF (talk) 05:44, 26 September 2017 (UTC)[reply]

Newly translated infobox data from the corresponding Japanese Wikipedia article

I've just translated the infobox contents from the corresponding article ja:国鉄150形蒸気機関車 on the Japanese Wikipedia, including a citation of the main source for the infobox data. I'm pretty sure my addition is correct, but I would still appreciate it if someone could look it over. Colin Douglas Howell (talk) 14:27, 9 August 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Near-full translation of the corresponding Japanese Wikipedia article

I have just finished rewriting this article almost completely, basing the rewrite on a translation of the Japanese version, including its list of sources cited. However, I have made many further edits for style and content, including rearranging some portions of text, and I also omitted a few parts of the Japanese version (mostly concerning appearances in modern media) as probably not wanted on the English Wikipedia.

I am still pretty sure about the basic correctness of the results, but I really want people to look this over, particularly people knowledgeable of Japanese railways and people fluent in both Japanese and English. My Japanese ability is, in my own judgment, non-existent; while I have learned some features of the language on my own, and I do know bits of vocabulary, I've never been anywhere near Japan and I'm pretty sure that I couldn't so much as read a road sign or ask a cop for help on my own. I'm utterly dependant on machine tools like Google Translate (carefully applied and checked — I'm well aware that it can't be simply trusted as is!), the "10ten" dictionary-lookup browser plugin (an invaluable aid), and Google Lens (for OCR-reading graphical Japanese text) to do something like this.

Unfortunately, the original Japanese article does not have inline citations of its sources, and none of those sources are online anyway (they're rather old and Japanese-only), so I haven't been able to check them directly. Colin Douglas Howell (talk) 07:40, 15 August 2024 (UTC)[reply]