Steam Locomotive Information

Here are the notes for West Mur (Hinckley MN) No. 6, a 2-4-0 located in Nikko, Tochigi. If you have additional information about this locomotive, and would like to share it, click the Add Note button.

Posted: Feb 21, 2026 @ 13:02:52 by Denis Larrick
Today Ebay coughed up a picture of this engine when Mel Aston was converting it from tank to tender and trying to get a right-of-way in the Whitewater Forest Reserve near Cincinnati, OH. He could never do so and the engine sat for many years next to an antique store in Miamitown, OH. When Mel died, George Roose bought it and sent it to an amusement park in Minnesota until that park closed and it was bought by Western Village in Japan.

Posted: May 9, 2022 @ 21:05:54 by Yuki Taki
Status, stored (as of March 2018). Location, private site in Nikko, Tochigi, Japan (specific location undisclosed). The locomotive was moved to its current location around 2013, and (in the latest photograph I was able to find of it) is stored outside wrapped in a tarpaulin.

Posted: Oct 21, 2013 @ 12:10:55 by Jay
This is the locomotive that is in the now abandoned Western Village Amusement Park. It is with the former Roaring Camp 0-6-2T Wahiphu

Posted: Oct 25, 2009 @ 12:10:26 by Steve Perkins
Same as Fairmount & Baltimore Coal & Coke?


West Mur (Hinckley MN) 2-4-0 No. 6 Nikko, Tochigi, Japan	Location: Private site Status: Cosmetic Restoration