What's new! Nishi Ward Tekutekuteku: 63rd fan-shaped locomotive garage

From the east exit of Yokohama Station, take Route 1 toward Takashimacho Intersection and cross tsukijibashi Bridge. The port side is the Minato Mirai 21 district, which is lined with new buildings, but it used to be a vast Yokohama engine zone.
In 1914 (Daisho 3), it was relocated from the current Sakuragicho Station to this area, and became a base for increasing railway freight transportation. Cargo was carried all over the country from the yard on the premises.
At present, there was a garage of a fan-shaped locomotive garage along the road near the schoolyard where Minato Mirai Honmachi Elementary School is located. Before that, there was also a turning point where the locomotive could change the direction and exit.
When I was in elementary school, I heard the smell of steam locomotive smoke, and smoke was rising from the chimney in the garage. I wanted to go inside and see a lot of steam locomotives.
The Yokohama engine zone was electrified, and eventually truck transportation became the center, and the engine zone was abolished in the late Showa era. Nowadays, the surrounding area is changing rapidly into a new landscape that can not be seen by people raised in Yokohama.
Title, Pictures and sentence SUZUKI Taro (Nishi Ward Cultural Association)