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A yellow diamond carrying a steam locomotive in silhouette.
Also known as: Railway crossing Japan, Steam train road sign
Warns of a railway level crossing ahead on a Japanese road, drawn with a steam locomotive long after steam left the network.
Warns that a railway level crossing lies ahead.
Contexts: Road signage
Keeps a steam locomotive as its figure although Japanese main-line steam ended in the 1970s, on the reasoning that the silhouette is unmistakable as a train where a modern electric unit reads as a bus or a tram. Several national schedules made the same choice and a few, including Germany's, later reversed it.
Contexts: Road signage
A square stood on one corner containing the side silhouette of a steam locomotive with a tall funnel, driving wheels and a trailing plume.