From 1969 to 1971 I made several port visits to Sasebo, Japan. Steam still served Sasebo and one of the local hot spots was the town of Haiki where the branch line from Sasebo met the main line to Nagasaki. The local railroaders were very friendly and pretty much let me roam around and shoot pics. The attached is NOT one of mine but it's the coaling tower at Haiki. When I visited there one of the roundhouse hostlers was kind enough to move a loco out from under the tower so I could get a better pic. There was also a full-functioning roundhouse and turntable which of course are long gone since steam operation shut down completely in 1972.
