Railway Museum opens, featuring 36 locomotives, driving simulato

Railway Museum opens, featuring 36 locomotives, driving simulato

SAITAMA, Japan - Locomotives and a computerized driving simulator for a steam locomotive are featured at the new Railway Museum that opened in Saitama, north of Tokyo, on Oct. 14, which fell Railways Day that marks the Oct. 14, 1872 opening of Japan's first railway line between Tokyo's Shimbashi and Yokohama, Kanagawa Prefecture. (Kyodo)

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