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The JNR class ED60 was a DC electric locomotive operated by Japanese National Railways (JNR) between 1958 and 1986. It was the first second-generation DC electric locomotive type featuring increased-power traction motors. Despite its diminutive size the Bo-Bo wheel arrangement ED60 design offered performance comparable with the much larger JNR Class EF15 1Co+Co1 design weighing almost twice as much.Eight locomotives were built between 1958 and 1960 by Kawasaki Tōyō + Kisha and Mitsubishi.