JR Freight (Freight Train) Coloring Pages

JR Freight (Freight Train) carries packages all over Japan

JR Freight (Freight Train) is a train company that carries packages instead of people.
It uses tracks all over Japan, from Hokkaido to Kyushu, to carry food, paper, things you use at home, and more.
Packages go inside big boxes called containers, which sit on freight cars.
A freight train has a lead locomotive that pulls the freight cars that cannot move on their own.
A famous line where freight trains run often is the Musashino Line.

The blue EF210 locomotive "Momotaro"

The 1st coloring page shows the EF210 electric locomotive.
Its nickname is "ECO-POWER Momotaro."
It got this name after the famous fairy tale from Okayama because it was first placed at a train yard in Okayama.
It was the very first nickname that JR Freight (Freight Train) picked by asking everyone for ideas.
Look for its blue body and the white stripe with lights on the front!

The 2-body EH500 "Kintaro"

The 2nd coloring page shows the EH500 pulling a long container train around a curve through green trees.
Its nickname is "ECO-POWER Kintaro," and a picture of Kintaro is painted on its side.
The EH500 is a long, powerful locomotive made of two connected bodies acting as one car.
It has a red body with a big, slanted gray section.

The DF200 "Red Bear" running through the snow

The 3rd coloring page shows the DF200 coming through a snowy forest.
Its nickname is "ECO-POWER RED BEAR," and people call it "Red Bear."
The DF200 is a locomotive that runs on a diesel engine instead of overhead power lines, so it can pull freight trains even on tracks without overhead wires in Hokkaido.
The engine makes electricity, and that electricity spins the motors to make it go.
The snow stuck to the front shows you just how cold winter gets in Hokkaido!

Let's compare the 3 locomotives

The EF210 and EH500 are electric locomotives that get power from pantographs on their roofs. The DF200 is a diesel locomotive with no pantograph.
Try to find the pantographs on the roofs in your coloring pages!
Every one of these locomotives is super strong and pulls long freight trains.

The EF210 is blue, white, and gray

For the EF210 on the 1st page, color the top and sides of the body blue, the stripe with the lights white, and the bottom of the front light gray.
If you color the containers in the back with different colors like green or reddish-brown, it will look like a real JR Freight (Freight Train).
Containers have different colors depending on the company and what is inside, so feel free to color them any way you like!

The EH500 is red and gray

For the EH500 on the 2nd page, color the body red, and color the slanted sides and the bottom of the front gray.
It will look super cool if you make a sharp line between the red and gray colors!
If you layer light green and dark green for the grass and trees around it, it will look like a summer train track.

The DF200 is red and snowy white

For the DF200 on the 3rd page, color the bottom half of the front red, and the top half dark gray.
For the snow on the front and the snowy ground all around, leave the paper white and just add light light-blue for the shadows to make it look like real snow!
Try coloring the winter tree branches brown or dark brown.

The train tracks and scenery around them

Color the rails brown, and color the stones on the tracks gray.
Color the utility pole on the 2nd page dark gray or brown.
It is fun to change the feeling of the picture by coloring the sky light blue for a sunny day, or light gray for a cloudy day!
If you color the sign on the 3rd page red or orange, it will stand out in the snow.
Color the snow fence dark brown.

How Many Trucks Can One JR Freight (Freight Train) Replace?

Just one JR Freight (Freight Train) can carry a whole lot of cargo.
One long JR Freight (Freight Train) can carry as much cargo as about 65 ten-ton trucks!
It gives off much less carbon dioxide than shipping by truck, so it is a super eco-friendly way to move things around.

Steam Locomotives Used to Pull Them Long Ago

A long time ago, steam locomotives like the D51 pulled the JR Freight (Freight Train).
Try lining it up with today's locomotives to compare them!

The Most Common Container

The container used most often by JR Freight (Freight Train) is 12 feet long (about 3.7 meters).
One container can hold up to 5 tons of cargo!
These containers can be moved between trucks and train cars easily. So from the train station, a truck carries them the rest of the way to stores and factories.
At the freight station, big vehicles called forklifts lift the containers to move them from the train cars to the trucks.
Try counting the train cars following behind the locomotive on the second coloring page.
How many did you find?