EF510 Hokutosei Color with Sleeping Cars `Cassiopeia` Ltd Edn - AS-100 - Plarail Advance

• EF510-0: Locomotives EF510-1 – built from 2001 for JR Freight
• EF510-500: Locomotives EF510-501 – 515, built 2009–2010 originally for JR East

The EF510-500 subclass consists of 15 locomotives operated by East Japan Railway Company (JR East), which replaced its fleet of EF81 locomotives formerly used to haul Cassiopeia and Hokutosei overnight sleeping car trains from June 2010.

The first locomotive, EF510-501, was delivered from the Kawasaki Heavy Industries factory in Hyogo Prefecture on 18 December 2009, arriving at Tabata Depot in Tokyo on 19 December. Livery is blue with gold lining and shooting star logo.^[6]

Two of the fifteen locomotives (EF510-509 and EF510-510) are painted in a dedicated colour scheme of silver with blue, purple, red, orange, and yellow stripes, to match the Cassiopeia rolling stock.^[7]